His research interests include labor economics, public finance, and applied econometrics. His current research uses novel data sources to study the determinants of the labor market outcomes of low and middle-income workers. He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017. Before coming to MIT, he did policy research at the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and managed randomized controlled trials at Innovations for Poverty Action. He grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and graduated from Yale College in 2008.