I am currently a Ph.D. student at Georgia State University. Before this, I was a research associate at Heidelberg University, HKUST, & the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore. I graduated with a Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 2018.

My research interests are in Environmental Economics, Labor Economics, & Health Economics.
When not in front of my laptop, you might find me running, cooking, or gardening.

Moritz Seebacher is a Ph.D. candidate at the ifo Institute in Munich & the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU). Moritz received a B.Sc. in Economics in 2020 & a M.Sc. in Economics in 2022 from the University of Konstanz. His main research interests are the economics of education & labor economics with a particular focus on equality of opportu-nities. He works on large projects with LinkedIn data to evaluate the explanatory power of skills & how they relate to earnings inequality across demographic groups.

I am a fourth year Ph.D. Student in the School of Economics at Georgia Tech. I hold a master's degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University & an undergraduate degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. My research focuses on Development Economics & Health Economics. My hobbies are hiking, reading, & listening to the songs. I love exploring new places & try different cuisines.

Emefa Surprize Deborah Buaka is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on the intellectual & developmental disability (IDD) community. Specifically, Emefa explores the effectiveness & accessibility of the Medicaid-funded Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS) Innovations Waiver for adults with IDD, alongside the intricate interplay of individual, environmental, & systemic factors influencing this community. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from UNCG & a Master’s degree in Economics from Central Michigan University. She completed her undergraduate studies with honors at the University of Ghana, where she earned a B.A. in Economics.

DJOHA is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Economics at Maroua University. Her research interest is in developmental economics with a special focus on issues related to energy, firms & institutional quality. Her work focuses on evaluating the temporal dynamics of the effects of electricity shortages on firms productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently she is working on the mediation of institutional quality on the relationship between electricity shortages & firms productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Fatima is a first-generation PhD candidate in Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, on the 2024-25 job market. She specializes in development & environmental economics, focusing on how vulnerable households respond to environmental shocks, the effects on their well-being, & the factors that contribute to their resilience.

Her dissertation examines the impact of flood shocks in rural Bangladesh on intra household decision-making & resource allocation, with a particular focus on women's vulnerability.

Fatima holds a Master's degree in International & Development Economics from Yale University & a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences. She also has experience working at the World Bank, where she contributed to policy-relevant research on topics such as energy access, female labor force participation, maternal health, & girls' education in South Asia

Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé, hailing from Benin, is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His doctoral research examines the impact of electricity & water interventions on the well-being of rural households in Senegal. In addition to this, he has a keen interest in exploring policy-relevant issues concerning household poverty, firm productivity, & the evaluation of public policies' impacts. Prior to his tenure at the University of Cape Town, he completed a Master’s degree in International & Development Economics, a program jointly offered by the Catholic University of Louvain & the University of Namur in Belgium.

Xuan Li is a sixth-year PhD student in Economics at Boston University who is interested in both Political Economy & Labor Economics.

Aanchal Bagga is a third-year Ph.D. student in Economics & Public Policy at Tufts University. Her research focuses on economic & social barriers faced by women & girls in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Aanchal is currently working on addressing IPV in India & a project with J-PAL South Asia on STEM education barriers in Karnataka. She aims to leverage her expertise to inform policy-making & contribute to long-term development.

Ridwan Hossain is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Fordham University, currently on the academic job market. His research interests lie in development economics, education, applied microeconomics, and applied econometrics. His dissertation features a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted among school-aged children in Bangladesh, examining the impact of monetary and non-monetary incentives on student performance.

Ridwan holds a master’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from North South University, Bangladesh.