Elizabeth Krause, a PhD student in Economics and UKCPR graduate student research fellow, received a grant from the highly selective Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Foundation's mission is to support policy research by emerging scholars whose work addresses contemporary issues in the social sciences. Elizabeth's project, "The Effect of LARC on Birth Spacing and Infant Health: Evidence from Changes in the Medicaid Payment Structure," examines the effect of subsidized access to high quality contraceptives on childbearing, birth spacing, and infant health by exploiting state-level changes to the Medicaid payment structure using restricted Vital Statistics data.