He received his B.A. at Calvin College, M.A. from University of Colorado Denver, and Ph.D from Duke University, where his thesis research was supported by a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation completion fellowship. In addition to work that examines empirical questions related to the equity and finance of school choice policies, his research focuses on the recent history of applied microeconomics. His historical work has appeared in History of Political Economy and been presented at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings, the Center for the History of Political Economy, the History of Economics Society, and the Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought. With J. Daniel Hammond and Steven G. Medema, he also co-edited Chicago Price Theory (Edward Elgar, 2013).