earned his Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University in 2008, and is currently on leave from Washington University in St. Louis where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science.  His research focuses on the American political economy, especially subnational social policies.  Dr. Moore's current projects include contributions to research on subnational pensions, health care, and redistributive policies; he also works on causal inference methods for experimental and observational data.  As a Scholar, he is working on state institutional variation in ACA