Wen Lu is a third-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Georgia State University, where she specializes in experimental economics. In her current research, Wen investigates the behavioral effects of contributing information to public goods within a controlled laboratory setting. By carefully examining how individual choices and decisions influence collective outcomes, she aims to uncover effective strategies that can enhance cooperation and optimize resource allocation in public goods provision. Her personal experiences as a woman and a first-generation college student have shaped her interests in gender, reproductive health and education equality. If you share similar research interests or would like to connect with her, please feel free to contact Wen at wlu10@gsu.edu.

Siru Liu is a fourth year PhD student in economics at Georgia State University. She is interested in behavioral and experimental methods and their applications in public policy issues. She believes policy design can leverage behavioral economics to better align with the behavioral nature of human beings and effectively target desired outcomes. Her recent work is on how non-standard preferences affects school matching outcomes. Another thread of her research is on tax perception and tax compliance using experimental methods.

Jancy Ling Liu is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech, specializing in Environmental and Energy Economics. Born and raised in a small town in southwest China, she is the first generation in her family to attend university and pursue a doctorate. Her two-year working experience at a FinTech company in Beijing stimulated a curiosity that led her back to academia, where she completed an M.S. in Statistics and Economics from Georgia Tech in 2019. Her research investigates the complex relationships between environmental factors and human behavior, specifically focusing on power plant retirements' effects on migration patterns and the influence of social norms on eco-labeled products. Beyond her academic pursuits, she advocates for diversity and inclusion, actively participating in DEI events and striving to contribute to the advancement of underrepresented groups in the field. As a prospective mentee at AMIE, she is eager to enhance her research skills, connect with like-minded researchers, and contribute to inclusivity in economics.

Kenichi Kuroiwa is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Georgia. His fields of interest include agricultural economics, environmental economics, and labor economics. His current research focuses on examining the effects of climate change on agricultural production and adaptation in the United States and Japan. Kenichi Kuroiwa holds an M.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University and a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Science from the University of Tokyo.

Kushal Lamichhane is a PhD candidate in the department of economics at Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. His current research interests lie in the field of experimental economics, behavioral economics and industrial organization. He conducts laboratory experiments to study behavior in different strategic settings. Kushal is a first-generation college student and holds a bachelor’s in business administration from Tribhuvan University in Nepal and an MBA in Finance from Southeast Missouri State University.

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. My research interest is applied microeconomics, particularly in the areas of child poverty, nutrition, and educational outcomes in developing countries. Currently, I am working on gender norms and well-being. I have an M.A. in Economics from Chaudhary Devi Lal University Sirsa, Haryana. For more details, visit my website: https://sites.google.com/view/mukesh-punia

I am PhD candidate at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, South Africa. I am also a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. My research focuses on the association between agricultural land tenure rights, household food security and child malnutrition from smallholder farmers’ perspectives. I participated in the 2019 PhD Fellowship on Land Economics and Governance, organized by Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC)-GIZ-World Bank and hosted at School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of Maryland, College Park. My research addresses challenges associated with promoting sustainable management of environmental and natural resources and enhances our understanding of current political efforts. My current research is in the fields of design and evaluation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program that restores nature-based infrastructure, such as forests and wetlands. In my dissertation, I examine (i) the cost-effective structure of payments and penalties in PES contracts and (ii) the contribution of PES programs to climate change mitigation and adaptation. I hold a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University and a M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.

I am a Ph.D. student in Economics with a major concentration in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Rice University. Before joining Rice, I completed a dual degree in Mathematics and Economics at the American University of Beirut.

My research interest lies at the intersection of public finance, health economics and industrial organization. In my research, I investigate the impact of subsidies and risk compensation schemes on supply-side responses within the context of health insurance markets in the U.S.

Junyoung Jeong is a PhD student in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. His primary field of research is environmental and resource economics, with a focus on analyzing the effects of environmental policies using dynamic programming approaches. His recent work investigates the uncertainty of US climate policy in stringency and timing and its impacts on the economy and environment. He is also participating in an interdisciplinary project of developing an integrated dynamic regional food-energy-water systems model for the Great Lakes region of the US.