His research interests include education and urban policy. For the past two years he has served on the staff of the Governor's Education Reform Study Commission for the state of Georgia. Before joining the faculty at Georgia State, he served as a research associate at the Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy in the New York University School of Law, and as an analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses. He holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia.