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.

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.