I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. My research interests lie in the areas of Human Capital, Labor Markets, Economic Inequality and the Economics of Developing Countries. My current research dossier includes work on student debt and labor market outcomes; recessions during youth and long-run educational/labor market inequality;  the returns to attendance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); inequality in intergenerational transfers and wealth-building within families; and higher education policies and economic development in the Caribbean.

My work has been funded so far by grants from Helios Education Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Russel Sage Foundation and Washington Center for Equitable Growth. I am a former Poverty Research Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Madison and I am currently a research affiliate with the Center for Race and Wealth at Howard University and the Center for Higher Education at University of Florida. .