SOMALIS CHY

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. I received a Ph.D. degree in Human Ecology with a concentration in Consumer Behavior and Family Economics from the Department of Consumer Science at the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. I have a B.A in Economics from Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia in 2016 and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree from a consortium of European universities in Economics of Globalization and European Integration in 2018.

My research broadly focuses on the dynamics of families’ relationships on economic decision-making and their interactions with social policies and benefits with the aim of improving families’ well-being and reducing social and economic inequalities.

I have ongoing works related to family caregiving with specific focus on consequences faced by socioeconomically disadvantaged family caregivers, such as access to work-family policies (ex. paid family leave) and employment-tied benefits (ex. Social Security Disability Insurance, SSDI and retirement benefits, OASI).