He earned his PhD in economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he concentrated in health and labor economics. His dissertation is entitled, “Analyzing the Effects of Public Policy on Human Capital and Inequality.” Additionally, he was an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University Chicago. He was previously a Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellow and a Visiting Dissertation Fellow. He earned an MA in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BA in economics and political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.