Earned a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). My current main areas of research are Public Economics and Political Economy. Specifically, I examine distributional and efficiency issues related to endogenous federal, state, and local government fiscal policies and interrelationships of public service provision between these different levels of government. The academic journals I have published in include the International Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Public Economics (3 papers), Journal of Public Economic Theory, Public Choice, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Public Finance Review, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.