Taub is a research associate in the Family Well-Being and Children’s Development policy area. Her research focuses on evaluating policies and programs for families with young children, including early care and education, home visiting, service coordination, and place-based initiatives, with a particular focus on implementation science and the mechanisms through which interventions affect child and family outcomes.
She currently serves as project director for the S.E.E.D. Evaluation and deputy project director for the Head Start Connects Follow-On, a nationally representative descriptive study of family support services coordination in Head Start. In addition, she is working on Guilford ROCS, an evaluation of a countywide initiative to strengthen systems of care for young children and families in North Carolina, and the Measures for Early Success project, an initiative that develops and tests innovative early childhood assessment tools in partnership with educators and families.
She has also played key roles in several large-scale studies of early childhood education and family support services, including Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions (VIQI) – ExCEL Quality and the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE).
Taub holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
