Katharina Wedel is a Ph.D. candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) and a Junior Economist at the ifo Institute in Munich. Katharina received a B.Sc. from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 2017 and completed her Master's in Economics at the University of Lund in Sweden in 2019. Her main research interests are the economics of education and labor economics. She works on a project to evaluate the effectiveness of a mentoring program for disadvantaged students. Besides, she is involved in designing yearly surveys about education policies in Germany to better understand public opinion about these topics.

Qinyou Hu is currently a Ph.D. student in Economics at Rice University. Before coming to Rice, she obtained a Master's degree in economics from Duke University. Her research interests lie in development economics and labor economics. She is enthusiastic about topics related to family dynamics, gender inequality, peer effects, and child development. One of her ongoing projects examines a field experiment in middle schools in urban China to help curb school bullying. She hopes to better understand adolescents' rationality and reasoning through the lens of economics.

I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management at Cornell University. My fields of specialization are Public Economics and Applied Econometrics with interests in Labor, Education, and Crime. I am currently studying the long-term effects of the WIC program and the effects of COVID-driven technology adoption on firm labor demand. Prior to starting my graduate studies, I worked at the Brookings Institution and Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. I hold a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Mount Holyoke College and an M.S. in Applied Economics & Management from Cornell University.

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics of the University of Oxford. My research is in applied microeconomics, with a focus on health and migrations. I am interested in understanding the factors — frictions and preferences – that in fluence individuals decision to relocate within a country. You can find more about my workatbzdiop.gitub.io

Revathy Suryanarayana is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Policy Analysis and Management department at Cornell University. Her primary research interests involve topics in health and public economics. Her current work looks at the impact of federal income support on long-run crime and risky behavior of adults in the US. Revathy holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Warwick and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Delhi

My name is Xiaochen Sun, and I am a third year PhD student in Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. My research is in the area of applied microeconomics with a special focus on environmental and energy economics. Before joining CMU, I worked at Duke University Energy Initiative as a Research Analyst and provided research assistance to various energy projects led by faculty at Duke. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Economics from Renmin University, China and a Master’s degree in Environmental Economics and Policy from Duke University.

Kait is a PhD candidate in applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is at the intersection of public health, economics of violence and conflict, and political economy. Broadly, she is interested in the ways that individuals cope with political and social turbulence, including political instability and domestic violence, and the impact of institutions like prisons and discretionary policing. Outside of the office, she teaches yoga, oil paints, and spends time with her pup at the dog park. Kait will be on the academic job market in 2021-2022.

Komal is a second-year PhD scholar at the Humanities and Social Science (HUSS) Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Her research interests center around health and development economics. She is also interested in woman-specific issues and exploring the upcoming Machine Learning (ML) techniques in the field of economics. She has completed her masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics (DSE), Delhi University (DU) and her bachelors from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University (DU)

I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics at McGill University, on the job market in 2021-22. I am an applied labor and public economist with special interests in the economics of education. My job market paper focuses on understanding the socio-economic gap in college enrollment and graduation.  I am a first-generation college student and a mother of a 2-year-old who keeps me very busy!

Helene Purcell is a PhD candidate in Economics at Fordham University and expects to graduate in May 2021. Her research aims to make contributions to the areas of development economics, environmental economics, and human capital accumulation using applied econometric techniques that facilitate causal interpretation. Her main research interest lies in exploring the impact of natural disasters and climate change on individual preferences and behavioral factors, paying close attention to causal inference and attempts to quantify the impact of a volatile environmental landscape on individual behavior and economic outcomes.  She has accepted a postdoctoral research position at the University of Pennsylvania in the Population Studies Center analyzing the impacts of living through the HIV epidemic in Malawi