Dr. Stith is an applied microeconomist, whose research focuses on health care and related markets. The majority of her research focuses on the implications of medical and adult-use cannabis legalization with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the New Mexico Legislature. Her research also explores the intersection of health and labor economics, and she recently began studying the economics of food with a particular interest in health-reducing consumer behaviors.  She is Director of the Undergraduate Program in Economics at the University of New Mexico, a Research Fellow with the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an Affiliated Researcher with the University of New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Research Fund.