He recently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with BERC and the Science Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES) project. His research interests include student mobility and transitions, intergenerational inequality, student non-cognitive skills, teacher professional development and causal inference in real-world settings. He operated a summer and afterschool academic enrichment program in New Haven, Conn., as well as taught middle and high school English in New Haven and London. His recent work has been published in Sociology of Education; Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis; and Journal of Educational Psychology.