I am a rising fifth-year PhD student in the Economics and Public Policy program at Tufts University. I also hold an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc (Hons.) in Economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. I will be on the 2024/2025 job market. My research interests lie at the intersection of development, public, and gender economics.

Marcelo Álvez is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Arizona State University, specializing in urban economics.

Before pursuing his Ph.D., he received an M.A. in Economics at Universidad de la República, Uruguay. While studying, he also worked, gaining seven years of professional experience as a research economist, including four years at the research department of the Central Bank of Uruguay.

Marcelo's research interests center around understanding how heterogeneous workers & households sort within cities, their commuting behavior, & the aggregate effects of their choices on housing & labor markets. His current projects seek to gain insight into the role of transportation infrastructure & land use regulations in this context.

I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota & a Population Trainee alum of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC). My work spans climate, health & fertility, & gender in developing countries.

I presently work as a Graduate Research Assistant with the IPUMS-MICS project at the Institute of Social Research & Data Innovation (ISRDI). I have previously worked at the New Delhi office of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on agriculture & climate change projects across South Asia. I also hold a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.

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.