Philippe has a great interest in studies related to climate change and pollution. His research focus the impact of climate change on business activities and individual’s outcomes. In addition to his doctoral studies, Philippe held various research and teaching assistant positions at the University of Ottawa (Introduction to econometrics, Econometrics I, Introduction to probability and mathematics). During his free time, Philippe likes to spend time doing outside activities such as biking, running, and playing tennis.

Kelly Hyde is a PhD candidate in economics at University of Pittsburgh, with concentrations in health, environmental, and behavioral economics. His research broadly focuses on the environmental and behavioral determinants of health disparities in both developed and developing economic contexts. Kelly’s recent work studies the relationship between drinking water contamination, extreme temperatures, and dimensions of poverty in the United States, including food security and risks of adverse health outcomes. He is also interested in the influence of pessimistic beliefs in the presence of uncertainty on the adoption and maintenance of normative behaviors.

I am a third year PhD student at MIT specializing in development economics. In my thesis research, I plan to study the introduction and growth of internet access in low- and middle-income countries, particularly its effects on education and women’s work. Through this workshop, I am excited to meet students and professors with a wider set of personal and career experiences in economics.

Katherine Hauck is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona, specializing in economic history and industrial organization. Her work focuses on the impact of public land laws, specifically the Homestead Act, in the late nineteenth century. Of particular interest is modeling the historical consolidation of family farms over time in terms of endogenous horizontal mergers

Maryiam Haroon is a PhD Candidate in Department of Economics at Lahore School of Economics. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics and Business. Her research interests include impact of the trade agreements and agglomeration externalities on firm. She is also working on designing optimal contracting, hiring and monitoring of employees in low-resource settings; and behavioral interventions to develop non-cognitive skills and improve academic performance of female students

Aria Golestani is a fifth-year PhD student in economics at the University of California-Irvine. He works in the fields of crime and public economics, with a particular focus on gendered criminal justice and racial bias in policing. Currently, he is studying the consequences of nuisance property ordinances on crime reporting and domestic violence, the racial bias in policing and prosecuting sex work, and how specialization in domestic violence court impacts decision making and re-victimization. Before coming to UC Irvine, he received his M.A. from Cal State LA in 2015 and graduated from University of Tehran (Iran) in 2011 with a B.A in Economics.

I am a fifth-year PhD student in Economics at Boston College. My research interests include labor economics, personnel economics, and finance. In my research, I study how to improve female representation in top corporate positions. Before joining Boston College, I have been a consultant at the OECD for over a year, and took part to research projects in India and Sub-Saharan Africa.

NGOKO Eric Hubert is a doctoral student in applied microeconomics at the University of Maroua in Cameroon. Prior to his PhD, he was a junior researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Microéconomie Appliqué (REMA) and the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Gestion (CEREG) where he studied various topics related to the economics of human resources, in particular, the economics of education and labor and participated in the writing of research reports. He uses primary data from the survey on the Improvement of Employment Policies in Cameroon carried out in 2017 by IDRC and CEREG to write his thesis on the theme: Essays on the transition of young people to the labor market in Cameroon. He is currently a doctoral student of the project "Youth Transition to the Labour Market in Francophone Africa" funded by IDRC: cases of Cameroon, Chad and Burkina Faso.

Victoria Endl-Geyer is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) and a Junior Economist at the ifo Institute in Munich. She worked as an Economics Specialist at the Bavarian Parliament and as a Subject Specialist at ifo Institute before starting her Ph.D. Victoria received a B.Sc. from the LMU in 2014 and completed her Master in Economics at the University of Graz in 2017. Victoria’s research interests lie at the intersection of the Economics of Crime, Development Economics, and the Economics of Gender.

I am a Doctoral student at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. My research interests include Health and Development Economics. In my Dissertation, I evaluate the welfare consequences of health shocks and the ex-post risk-coping strategies utilized by poor rural agricultural households in developing countries. In my future work, I plan to understand the behavioral mechanisms because of which the markets for healthcare have failed in India.