Jamein P. Cunningham is an assistant professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and the Department of Economics at Cornell University. His teaching and research interests include labor economics, urban economics, economics of crime, and microeconometrics. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan, where he was a Population Studies Center graduate trainee and the recipient of the Rackham Merit Fellowship and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute in Child Health and Development Fellowship. He earned his M.A. in economics from the University of North Texas and his B.A in economics at Michigan State University.