I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Economics, University of Kansas. My research interests include macro-finance & time-series econometrics. My study focuses on the relationship between the U.S. financial markets & the macroeconomy. After working on multiple projects at UNDP Bangladesh for over two years, I moved to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D.

Rachel Rosales is a doctoral student in Health Services Research (with a concentration in Health Economics) at Brown University School of Public Health. She is a budding health economist with interests in Medicaid policy evaluation & health care access among marginalized populations, particularly children. Prior to Rachel’s doctoral studies, she was an Associate Program Manager for Massachusetts’s Medicaid program & a Senior Medicaid Policy Analyst at Community Catalyst. Her work has focused on evaluating the intersection of accessibility & health outcomes for underserved populations.

Karan Shakya is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, & Development Economics at Ohio State University. His primary fields are development & environmental economics, focusing on the consequences of seasonal & natural shocks in low-income settings. He completed his undergraduate degree at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.

Kalyani is a PhD student at the University of California, Davis, specializing in behavioral & experimental economics. Primarily, she uses experiments to understand the behavioral mechanisms driving gender disparities in the labor market. In her job market paper, Kalyani finds that gender-stereotypical perceptions cause men to use stronger adjectives to describe their skills in the labor market, compared to equally-performing women. In another chapter of her dissertation, Kalyani finds that women update their beliefs differently than men about others' contribution to a public good, which explains why women are more likely to perform non-promotable public service tasks in the workplace.

Maitri Punjabi is a PhD student in Economics at Michigan State University with research interests in energy policy, development, & political economy. Her current research focuses on consumer responses to electricity subsidies in India & behavioral frictions that attenuate the response. She is also interested in topics related to good governance & efficient public service delivery. Prior to joining the PhD program, Maitri worked on impact evaluations & supported fieldwork activities in the international education sector. She has a BS in Mathematical Decision Sciences & Economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where my research focuses on economic development, economies of education, & human capital.

Emma Wohl is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests pertain to labor & public economics, including policies which affect low-wage workers & families. Her current work studies living wage laws which include policies that may increase employer-provided health insurance. She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, with a concentration in public policy.

Margarita is currently a final-year Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include Energy, Environment, Development, & Health Economics. In her job market paper, she evaluates the impact of emerging decentralized green technologies, specifically solar mini-grids, on human capital accumulation & energy access. Additionally, she studies the broader impacts of regulatory policies on public health & behavior, as well as the social costs of pollution & natural disasters. Her earlier work also examined the effects of alcohol control policies on child health & behavior, highlighting the broader implications of substance access regulations.

Henry Bernal is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses largely on studying travel behavior & policies such as congestion pricing. He is currently working on studying mode choice & the value of time of students in high schools & community colleges in the Los Angeles area. Prior to his doctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine, Henry completed a Master of Arts in economics & a Bachelor of Science in economics & mathematics from the University of Southern California.

I am a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Minnesota. My research interests lie within development with a focus on agriculture, labor, & gender economics. My main focus is to study the barriers women in developing countries face when participating (or trying to) in labor & agricultural markets. This also involves research around gender norms, social network & women’s empowerment within & outside households.