Hello! Thank you very much for visiting my blog. I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, USA. I received my B.A. degree in Economics and Business Administration at Transylvania University, Lexington, KY; my M.A. in Economics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; and my Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Kentucky. For more information, please visit my website.

My areas of expertise is on Labor Economics, Economic Development and the Economics of Poverty. I will be mainly writing about these two economic issues. Hope you will enjoy reading them! If you have any comments/suggestions, please feel free to email me @ tislam at elon dot edu.