Before joining the Morehouse faculty, Dr. Poyer was a visiting assistant professor at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Illinois. He also taught at Lewis University, in Romeoville, Illinois. During his CBO fellowship, Dr. Poyer worked with the agency’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division to investigate the relationship between the distribution of household income and real (inflation-adjusted) personal consumption spending. Using a procedure called vector error correction, Dr. Poyer found evidence to suggest that changes in income distribution may be important indicators of changes in aggregate spending over time.