I am a third-year doctoral student in Economics at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India. My research interest is applied microeconomics particularly in the areas of political economy, health, gender, agriculture, labor and education. I am looking to find interesting and, perhaps, curious results in development economics. I have 3 years of corporate experience in banking and management consulting. I have an MBA degree from IIM Lucknow and an undergraduate degree from SRCC, University of Delhi, India

Ann Mary Varghese is a Ph.D. candidate at Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Ann's research is on the domains of Applied Microeconomics, Transport Economics, and Energy Economics. Ann works on the Technology Adoption of New Energy Vehicles in Developing Economies. Having completed her MPhil in Economics, Ann has work experience at firms like McKinsey & Co., and Dohwa Engineering Co Ltd.

Shagufta teaches economics courses at IBA and regularly writes in newspapers. She has worked at OICCI as senior researcher and at CBER (IBA). She has been part of several research projects including development of Shadow Budget for Sindh government, National Initiative for SDGs, Sindh Tax Revenue Mobilization Plan etc. Shagufta has contributed a chapter in each of the two e-books on the impact of COVID-19 on the Pakistani economy and has provided assistance in the e-book “Policy response during challenging times". She is currently co-authoring book "Development Pathways".

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 field is Applied Microeconomics with interests in Health and Public Economics. In my dissertation, I am examining the long-term health effects of the WIC program. 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.