His research centers on issues of youth unemployment and credit market access with a special emphasis on issues that affect the MENA region. Much of his work utilizes Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) along side insights from economics to rigorously test theories about how to improve outcomes of poverty alleviation programs. He is currently working on projects that deal with issues including vocational education, apprenticeship training, Islamic microfinance, expanding credit access for SMEs, and studying the impacts of opening up access to foreign markets.Adam is receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2014.