Brant Abbott is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at Queen’s University Department of Economics. His field of research mainly focuses on Macroeconomics, with his current research focusing on human capital and inequality; as well as household finance, consumption, and savings choices. He is affiliated with the human capital and economics opportunity working group at UChicago. Professor Abbott holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University before joining Queen’s University in 2015.