I am the Director of the Master of Science in Applied Economics Program at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this, I was a Senior Economist at the Food and Drug Administration, before which I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (Click Here To View My Curriculum Vitae).
My research interests include food economics, behavioral economics, labor economics, and applied microeconomics .
My work has appeared in the Southern Economic Journal (Click Here To View Paper), the Journal of Economic Psychology (Click Here To View Paper), Agricultural Economics (Click Here To View Paper), Food Policy (Click Here To View Paper), Applied Economics Letters (Click Here To View Paper), the Journal of Labor Research (Click Here To View Paper), the Journal of Socio-Economics (now the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics) (Click Here To View Paper), the Southern Business and Economic Journal (Click Here To View Paper), and the edited volume The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century (Click Here To View Paper). I also currently have a paper under revision that examines the effect of two USDA rules aimed at reducing Listeria illnesses in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products (Click Here To View Paper), as well as a working paper and several works in progress, as noted on my vitae.