He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2009 studying macroeconomics under Michael Kaganovich and Gerhard Glomm. Upon graduating, he accepted an offer from Montana State University to teach courses in Macroeconomics. He also enjoys researching and has mainly studied the effects of public policy. His research on public school teachers’ labor markets have been published in the prestigious Journal of Public Economics and Economics of Education Review, among others. He is currently studying the ballooning student loan market.