At LSE, her thesis was Economic Models of Family Decision Making, with Applications to Intergenerational Justice.
[6] Woolley started as a visiting lecturer in the department of economics at University of British Columbia from 1989 to 1990.
In 1997, she worked as a visiting assistant professor in the department of economics at Simon Fraser University.
From 2013 to 2016, she also served as the associate dean of curriculum and planning at faculty of public affairs at Carleton University.
The paper simulates a two-person family in which individuals are utility-maximizing yet interdependent due to social and economic causes.
Overall, the paper examines the issues within the households related to resource allocation, bargaining power, as well as under the influence of public policy.
The book proposes some policy solutions with the intention to solve the problems around these issues mentioned above in the Canadian system.