Updated February 2026
Fields of Interest
Labor Economics, Personnel Economics, Economics of Education
Academic Appointments
2025-Present Associate Professor of Economics, West Point
2018-2025 Assistant Professor of Economics, West Point
Education
2018 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Virginia
2015 M.A. in Economics, University of Virginia
2010 B.A. in Economics and Statistics with Honors; Minor Mathematics, Philosophy, Brigham Young University
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Teaching Experience
West Point Leadership and Personnel Economics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Principles of Economics
UVA Principles of Macroeconomics (TA), Intermediate Microeconomics (TA), Economic History (TA), Economics of Education (TA)
BYU Econometrics I and II (TA)
Presentations
2024-2025 Northeastern Economics of Education (Yale), Southern Economic Association (Baltimore), APPAM (Washington), ASSA (San Francisco).
2023-2024 Southern Economic Association (New Orleans), AEFP (Baltimore), Bozeman Applied Economics Conference, Western Economic Association (Seattle).
2022-2023 Leadership Economics workshop at UT Austin McCombs School of Business (by invitation); ASSA (New Orleans); Mountain West Economic History Conference (Logan); AEFP (Denver); Featured speaker for the New Jersey Air and Army National Guard Leadership Conference (Atlantic City).
2021-2022 Northeast Economics of Education Workshop (Online); Guest Lecturer on Economics of Education (Tulane, Online); SEA (Houston).
2020-2021 APPAM (Online), AEFP (Online), WEAI (Online).
2019-2020 European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) (Stockholm, Sweden); Northeast Economics of Education Workshop (Amherst, MA); AEFP (Online).
2018-2019 SEA (Washington, DC); SOLE (Washington, DC); AEFP (Kansas City, KS); WEAI (San Francisco, CA).
2017-2018 APPAM International (Brussels, Belgium); HCEO Working Group (Chicago, IL); SEA (Tampa, FL); AEFP (Portland, OR).
2016-2017 Economic Research Colloquium (Charlottesville, VA); AEFP (Washington, DC).
2015-2016 AEFP (Denver, CO).
Honors, Fellowships and Awards
2024 Russell Sage Foundation, Co-PI ($166,000)
2024 Faculty Research Fund Grant Awardee, West Point
2023 Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Grant
2023 Department of the Army Civilian Service Achievement Medal
2022 Murdy Teaching Award, West Point
2020 Department of the Army Civilian Service Achievement Medal
2017-2018 Predoctoral Bankard Fellow, University of Virginia
2015-2017 Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow
2017 Attendee, 2017 Human Capital and Economic Working Group Summer Program, University of Chicago
2016 Snavely Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Proposal, University of Virginia
2015 Steer Family Endowment Research Grant, University of Virginia
2015 Snavely Prize for Outstanding Summer Paper Award, University of Virginia
2010 University Honors with Thesis, Brigham Young University
Professional Service
2023-2024 National Academy of Science committee member for Adult Learning in the Military Context study.
2022 Co-organized Northeastern Economics of Education conference, hosted at West Point.
Departmental and University Service
2024 Curriculum Design Committee, West Point Economics Department
2023 Consultant to the Army on improving recruitment and retention (received Department of the Army Civilian Service Achievement Medal)
2022 Faculty Editor for the West Point Journal of Politics and Security
2022 “Officer in Charge” for student educational experience in Argentina
2021 Writing Center advisor and economic department representative
2020 Researcher and consultant for congressionally mandated Fort Hood Independent Review Committee (received Department of the Army Civilian Service Achievement Medal)
2020, 2021, 2023 Academic hiring committee
2020-2023 Department Seminar Series Organizer
2018- Hiring, training, and mentoring pre-doctoral research assistants: Jesse Meredith (Boston University), Alec Hoover (UCSD), Andrew Hoover (Notre Dame), Anika Narella (University of Pennsylvania), Kelly Orr, and Eli Levine
2018- Researcher and Fellow of the Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA); Academic Research Council
Grant and Project Funding
2024 Faculty Research Fund Grant, West Point ($6,250)
2023 Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Grant ($7,500)
2022 Virginia Veterans Research Grant ($20,000)
2020 DoD Internal Funding for Personnel Incentive RCT ($14 million)
Referee
Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Education Finance and Policy; Economics of Education Review; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Contemporary Economic Policy; Journal of Economics and Business; Journal of Education Human Resources; PLOS ONE
Honors Thesis Committee
* = Chair
2024 Brandon Agran*, Daniel Pinney*
2022 Alexander Amaya*
2021 Greg Brownell*
2020 Chris Weaver, Woo Chul Kim
Languages
English (native) · Spanish (fluent)