Vikesh Amin is a Professor of Economics at Central Michigan University. He obtained his PhD in 2010 from Royal Holloway University of London. His research areas are in health, education, and labor economics. A central theme of his research has been on understanding whether education is a fundamental cause of health disparities by attempting to identify causal effects of education on health. He received a NIH RO1 grant to examine whether education moderates the genetic risk of poor health. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Education Review, Economics & Human Biology, Social Science & Medicine, Social Science & Medicine-Population Health..