 He attended the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations.In 1978, he earned his Masters degree in Economics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Economics and Demography from Princeton in 1981.Bloom is married to Lakshmi Reddy Bloom, with whom he has two children, Sonali, a Yale University graduate, and Sahil, a Stanford University graduate.