He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2005. Matt teaches econometric theory and agricultural finance at the University of Wyoming. Prior to his current position, he was a research associate with InSTePP at the University of Minnesota, and with the University of California, Davis. His primary research interests include productivity analysis, production economics, and the economics of R&D related to U.S. agriculture. As a research associate with InSTePP, he helped develop a comprehensive database of production accounts in U.S. agriculture. The database is currently being used to track the productivity of U.S. agriculture and to help estimate the economic returns to public investments in agricultural R&D in the United States.