He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan (2012) after completing his M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley (2007) and his undergraduate studies at the University of Connecticut (2005). David's primary field of research is public finance - with an emphasis on taxation and fiscal federalism. David's research agenda focuses on theoretical and empirical models of: tax competition and fiscal federalism, the mobility of people and firms in response to taxes, and sales and exices taxes. David received The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize in 2011 and The Young Economists Award in 2012.