MinSub Kim is a PhD candidate in Economics at The Ohio State University. His primary fields of research are labor economics with a particular emphasis on gender disparities and social networks. He has focused on studying coworker networks within the workplace to understand how manager-employee connections affect employee productivity and workforce diversity.

Fatima is a final year PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales with a focus in behavioural and development economics. She is currently working on a randomized control trial to assess the impact of a positive psychology intervention on improving learning outcomes for school age children in low-income settings. Fatima also works as a Policy Analyst at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research in Sydney. She received her MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics in 2016 and her BSc (Hons) in Economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2015.

Ajinkya Keskar is currently a Ph.D. student at Rice University. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he received a Master's in economics at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from PES University, Bangalore, India. Ajinkya's research interest is primarily development economics, focusing on the economics of the family, gender, and marriage markets. Some of his recent work looks at the effect of marriage transfers on women's post-marital outcomes in India.

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.