Daniel Mangrum is a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research focuses on the impact of education policy in the United States on human capital and labor market outcomes for low-income and first-generation college students. Mangrum also examines how nutrition interventions affect standardized test scores and school attendance for children in food-insecure areas. In addition to education economics, he studies topics in urban and transportation economics. Mangrum earned his B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Memphis and his Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University.