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I
live in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania with my wife and four
boys (pictured below)

My
wife and I both hail from Lebanon, Pennsylvania home of the world-famous
Lebanon bologna.
I
attended St. Mary’s Elementary School and Lebanon Catholic High School, home of the Beavers.
For
college, I went to Villanova
University as a Presidential
Scholar, working at Modell’s in the evenings and summers.
I
also spent a summer writing for the Daily Local News of West Chester, where I
mostly wrote about the weather
(Dave
Barry got his start there . . . he probably wrote about the weather
too).
My
wife and I then moved to Laurel, Maryland while I started the PhD program
in economics at the University
of Maryland.
After
one year in our lovely apartment, we decided to buy a house in
Cape St. Claire
(a wonderful Annapolis, MD neighborhood on the Chesapeake Bay).
At
the end of that year, our first son (2nd from the right in the
picture above) was born.
After
completing the core econ PhD work, including the public finance sequence, a
political economy sequence, and work in micro-econometrics at Maryland,
I
switched to the economics program at George Mason University,
completing fields in Public Choice and Industrial Organization there,
while
working at the Bureau
of Economic Analysis in DC.
After
completing the course work, I wrote my dissertation and started the Levy Fellowship at George Mason Law,
working
at the Defense
Manpower Data Center. Our
second son (2nd from the left above) was born that year.
I
finished law school in 2003, and soon after our third son (far left above) was
born.
I
spent a year helping to start the Liability Project at the American Enterprise
Institute.
We
then moved to Tallahassee
Florida so I could take a job as an assistant professor of law at Florida State University.
We
enjoyed our 3+ years there very much (the South being much nicer than we
northerners usually assume), and our 4th son was born in
Tallahassee.
After
visiting (for various durations) at Northwestern, Southern Cal, Columbia,
and Penn,
we made our way back to PA.
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