Dafne Murillo is a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. Her research lies at the intersection of development and political economy. Originally from Lima, Peru, her work focuses largely on Latin America—one of the most unequal regions in the world— and is motivated by its challenges. She is currently working on projects related to long-run effects of redistributive policy, state capacity, and local development in resourcerich economies. Previously she worked as a predoctoral research assistant at Columbia Economics for Professors Michael Best, Jonas Hjort and Eric Verhoogen. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Latin American Studies from Columbia College in 2019.

Mr. Narbadeshwar Mishra is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University. His research interest lies in the area of development Economics. He predominantly works in Economics of Education, Health Economics, Financial Inclusion, Environmental Economics, and Political Economy. He is primarily interested in causal inference studies.

I am a PhD candidate in Economics and Public Policy at Tufts University. My research interests are in development economics, agricultural economics, and applied micro. I my job market paper, I executed a twostage randomized control trial in Bangladesh to examine whether price subsidies differentially allocate agricultural inputs to farmers with higher or lower returns.

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.