Bo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His research lies broadly within the fields of public policy and applied microeconomics, with special interests in health behaviors, causal inference, program evaluation, and health services research. Bo has published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Small Business Economics, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, and China Third Sector Research, and has three other papers currently under review at Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, and Environmental Politics. His current research focuses on the behavioral effects of tobacco control policies on adolescent substance use, including both the intended effects and the unintended consequences. Another project uses data provided by Google to examine the impacts of marijuana legalization laws on information seeking and the interplay of Web searching and behavioral change. His training at the intersection of public policy and economics has equipped him to perform in an interdisciplinary environment.
Before coming to Georgia State, Bo has earned an MPA in public policy at the University of Georgia. He also spent two years working in the private sector as a data analyst.