About Me

I was born in a small country globe-makers usually abbreviate as “Mold.” My family moved to the Bay Area when I was six, and to New York when I was twelve.

I have lived at over twenty addresses, in cities with a full-scale replica of the Parthenon, the world's most famous cheese market, Pushkin’s home in exile, the world’s largest landfill, and the birthplaces of Bruce Springsteen, Rob Lowe, and Nathan Hale.

Freehold, New Jersey, is where I attended high school, fostered my inner geek, and earned trophies for arguing. At the University of Virginia, I pursued political theory, dabbled in economics, met my wife, and developed a Sisyphean fandom for UVA sports. At Rutgers University, I received a doctorate in economics, got within four hops of Erdös, and dabbled in brewing and darts.

We moved to Nashville, Tennessee, for one year, and stayed for ten. Endeavoring to move back to the Northeast, we overshot, and landed in the “quiet corner” of Connecticut. A decade-plus later, we’re still there.

My wife and I have two kids and two goofy dogs of assorted sizes.

For my professional background, see my vita or research pages.

For some miscellany, visit policeresearch.us, my compendium of research on racial bias in policing; download MBA Oracle, my mobile app that automagically generates meaningless business-speak; adopt Managerial Economics, my textbook, now in its fifth edition; see a list of some great people I've met along the way; or visit me @mikeshor on Twitter where I often vent.