Bradley graduated from the South Carolina Honors College with a double major in mathematics and philosophy in 2010. While an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina, he was the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Jeong S. Yang Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics, and Magellan Scholarship. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Chicago in 2017 and received the NSF Grant in Social and Economic Sciences in 2019. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, and will become an Assistant Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University in the summer of 2021.