Sarah Kostecki is currently working toward her PhD in Political Science at the Graduate Center. She is also a Research Associate with the LIS Center, a cross-national data center that harmonizes microdata for use in comparative socio-economic research. Her research interests are centered around the relationship between politics, policy and economic outcomes for men and women in a cross-national perspective. Her current research involves utilizing a new income definition that takes into account the value of unpaid work (in the form of both housework and childcare) and non-cash services (health care, education, early childhood education and care, and housing) to measure inequality and poverty outcomes across different household types in the US and 5 additional high-income countries. The study shows that other factors, beyond income, are important for household well-being, especially for households in the bottom and middle of the income distribution.