Karin Wu is a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to the US, she was a research assistant at the Agricultural Policy Research Group in Taiwan, where she analyzed agricultural policy impact evaluations. Her research interest is at the intersection of applied econometrics, agricultural and food policy, and industrial organization. She is interested in analyzing how individuals react to policy changes or shocks. In her free time, she enjoys growing vegetables, snowboarding, and camping.

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. My current research interests include labor markets, agricultural labor, migration, and applied microeconomics. My ongoing research focuses on the United States as well as developing countries. I hold a Bachelor of Business Information Systems from Kathmandu University in Nepal and an M.S. in Applied Economics from Montana State University. Before joining the doctoral program, I worked as a Research Consultant at Precision Agriculture for Development.

I am a first-year PhD candidate at the LMU Munich and a Junior Economist at the ifo Institute, where I work for the research group on taxation and fiscal policies. Before joining the Ifo Institute, I interned for UN ESCAP in 2021 and received my M.A. from LMU Munich in 2020. My research interests focus on public and gender economics, particularly on gender inequalities within the household and their long-term impact on female wages. Besides my PhD journey, I am also highly interested in music, and I used to play professional basketball

Amanda is a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego. Amanda uses both applied and experimental methods to study questions stemming from discrimination, inequality, and disparate impacts. She studies how structures (institutions, digital platforms, policies) influence behavior towards others differentially, and how these behavioral differences translate to unequal outcomes. Amanda’s research has been furthered by the UCSD Diversity Research Fellowship and the Frieda Daum Urey Endowment grant. Her previous experience includes the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the World Bank

Maxwell Bullard is a third-year PhD student in the department of economics at Texas A&M University. He is an applied microeconomic and experimental economist, with a particular focus on child welfare topics. Currently, his current research examines the two-sided matching process of private child adoptions and how the process informs fundamental behavioral questions. Additionally, his research looks to identify causal mechanisms within the foster care system that can be used to help inform future policy. Maxwell holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics and Master of Science in Applied Economics from Marquette University.

Chila is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Binghamton University. Her research interests include Development Economics, Environmental Economics, and Behavioral Economics. Her work focuses on the social and environmental injustices caused by policies that affect minorities, women, and the poor. In recent work, she studies how the policy that required tanneries or leather manufacturers to treat their effluent affected the downstream farmer's productivity in India. Before her Ph.D., Chila worked at the Asian Development Bank and for the Philippine government. She received her MA in Economics and BS in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines, Diliman

I am a second-year PhD student at Georgia State University focusing on health economics, specifically on tobacco policies. My current research investigates the effect of FDA's first-ever Modified Risk Tobacco Product order on the sales of General Snus, a smokeless snus product introduced from Sweden to the U.S. Additionally, being a woman and first-generation college student gains me natural interests in gender and education equality. In my spare time, I enjoy watching movies, biking, and film photographing.

MBARGA EVOUNA JOSEPH SERGE is a student at the University of BUEA waiting to support the thesis on the distribution and marketing of agricultural products. Mbarge serge conducts research on issues of agri-environmental economics. Waiting to defend my thesis in agricultural economics from the University of Buea in Cameroon and a master's degree in environmental economics, rural development, and agri-food from the University of Yaounde II-Soa in Cameroon, also holder of a BSc. in economics and management from the University of Yaounde II-Soa in Cameroon.

I am a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economics, Finance and Management at Goethe University Frankfurt. My advisor is Reyn van Ewijk at Mainz University. Currently I am at MIT for a research visit to Joshua Angrist. My research focuses on empirical questions of health, education and network economics. My analyses of the impact of lockdowns and school closures on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 got recently published in the journals PLOS ONE and PNAS.

During the next year I will finalize my dissertation and want to transition to an academic position in Berlin

Atish is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India. He is interested in applying computational techniques to study questions in the area of macroeconomics. For his dissertation, he is planning on assessing the current landscape of DSGE models and then developing a model that tries to improve on the existing ones using ideas from complexity theory and agent-based modeling. Before joining the Ph.D. program, Atish worked in the Risk Strategy Division at HSBC, Bangalore. His background is in economics with a masters from the University of Hyderabad, India, and a bachelor's from Symbiosis International University, Pune. Outside of work, he is an avid quizzer and enjoys playing cricket.