Helen Burkhardt is an Economics PhD Candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Economics and the Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research interests lie broadily in applied microeconomics with a focus on topics in labor and health economics. In her job market paper, she explores the relationship between caregiving and labor market outcomes by looking at the impact of parental health shocks of varying severity on adult children. She was previously a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and recieved her BA in Economics from Northwestern University.

Godwin Aipoh is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Georgia State University. His research lies at the intersection of health and development economics and uses quasi-experimental methods to study how public policies, institutions, and service-delivery systems affect health, human capital, and labor-market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. His job market paper examines the effects of Rwanda’s medical drone delivery network on maternal and child health. For more info, visit www.godwinaipoh.com

Raghav Raghunathan is a Ph.D. candidate in Development Economics at Wageningen University & Research. His dissertation studies how poor rural households plan under uncertainty: a Tanzania RCT (Co-PI) on drought-tolerant maize and index insurance adoption, a Malawi study of budget-planning boards and lean-season labour supply, and an analysis of Indian cash-transfer programmes and women's labour supply. Before his Ph.D. he spent close to a decade in Indian agricultural markets and policy, including at NCDEX, the World Bank, and IFPRI. He holds an M.P.P. from UC Berkeley (Fulbright–Nehru Scholar) and is based in Bangalore.

Komal Sajwan is an Economics Research Scholar at IIT Roorkee whose research interests include development economics, food and nutrition, gender and agriculture economics. Her work is published in reputed Scopus index journals. Her doctoral work focuses on multidimensional household food security and the gender dimension in the Himalayan region.

I'm a PhD candidate in Economics at Clemson University, specializing in development and health economics with a focus on maternal and child health in India. My research examines how public health incentive programs shape household investments in health and human capital, with particular attention to vaccination coverage and timing. Originally from India, I draw on this background to study programs like the Janani Suraksha Yojana, a maternal health cash transfer, and its downstream effects on childhood immunization. I am also passionate about teaching and have taught courses including Principles of Macroeconomics and Principles of Microeconomics.

Shubhangi Singh is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Houston. Her research interests lie in labor and development economics, with a focus on gender and education. Currently, her research studies strategic behavior by schools around staffing thresholds, using discontinuities in the distribution of reported enrollment. Originally from India, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Houston and a Master of Arts in Applied Economics from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Richa is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal. Her research interests include development economics, gender economics, health economics, labor economics, and institutional economics.

She holds an M.A. in Economics with first-class distinction from the University of Hyderabad, where her dissertation combined a primary household-level survey with econometric analysis to study unpaid care work among women in Bihar. Before joining IISER Bhopal, she worked as an Academic Associate at IIM Bangalore and as a Research Assistant at RIS (Research and Information System for Developing Countries), a think tank under India’s Ministry of External Affairs. These experiences strengthened her interest in rigorous, policy-relevant research and collaborative scholarship.

Richa is excited to be part of the AMIE community and looks forward to learning from mentors and fellow researchers while also building meaningful academic collaborations.

Parthasarathi Sahu is a doctoral scholar and Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, where he is working on his dissertation, Essays on Indian Urban Agglomeration. His research lies at the intersection of urban, environmental, and development economics, with a focus on India. He studies how urbanization mediates the relationship between climate change, economic growth, and fiscal policy, using time-series methods such as ARDL, NARDL, and VECM, panel econometrics, and satellite-based data including VIIRS nighttime lights and the Global Human Settlement Layer. He has presented his work at the 13th World Congress of the Econometric Society in Seoul, the ADBI-SAU Conference on Climate Change and Resilience in South Asia.

Neetu Yadav is a PhD Scholar in International Relations at BITS Pilani, India. Her research focuses on digital governance, public diplomacy, strategic communication, and foreign policy narratives in the Global South. She holds a Master's degree in Political Science and Governance from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has professional experience in political research, geopolitical risk analysis, public policy, and higher education. Her recent work examines the role of digital platforms in shaping policy communication and international engagement, with a particular focus on India's G20 Presidency and Global South diplomacy.

Jiaqi Wang is a fourth-year PhD student in Economics at the University of Miami, working under the supervision of Stefania Albanesi. Her research sits at the intersection of urban economics, real estate finance, and macroeconomics, with a unifying interest in how market frictions, policy design, and technological change shape housing markets and household financial outcomes. Her current work spans three fronts: studying how spatially differentiated mobility fees affect housing prices and development incentives using a boundary discontinuity design; examining informal default and bankruptcy among financially distressed borrowers using individual-level credit bureau data; and investigating how AI occupational exposure amplifies the education premium in homeownership — a project that combines novel measurement of AI labour market shocks with large-scale microdata to trace the non-income pathways through which technology reshapes access to residential wealth. Across these projects, Jiaqi is particularly interested in developing new empirical measurements and leveraging quasi-experimental designs to identify causal mechanisms in real estate and household finance. Prior to her PhD, she completed a Master's in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Georgia Tech and a Bachelor's in Economics at Boston University, and has held research and consulting roles at Deloitte and Artefact.