Thomasson attended the University of Puget Sound, where in 1992 she obtained a Bachelor of Science in economics with minors in mathematics and English literature.
She has studied the relationship between American tax policy and health coverage,[3] the development of health insurance in America,[4] and the economic causes and implications of the evolution of childbirth from an event that mostly occurred at home to one that typically occurs in hospitals.
won the 2005 award for the best paper published in the journal Explorations in Economic History in the previous year.
[7] Thomasson has also shown that once schools did reopen, about 200,000 of the 829,000 students in the city did not return immediately, for fear of contracting the disease.
[6] An article in Forbes, citing the WAMU report on Thomasson's research, speculated that many parents might experiment with alternative means of education such as homeschooling shortly after policies allow schools to reopen.