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.

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. I am particularly interested in development economics, labor economics and political economy as well as applications of machine learning in these areas.

Yiming Cao is a PhD candidate in Economics at Boston University. He works at the intersection of development economics and political economy. His research centers around topics such as bureaucracy, corruption, and conflict. His recent work examines building damages in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and provides evidence of how the patron-client relationship creates social vulnerabilities that magnify the impact of negative shocks. He is also in the progress of identifying information flows among politicians and personal networks using state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Prior to Joining Boston University, he received his bachelor's degree at Fudan University.

Chris Boyd is a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Before her PhD, she was a junior researcher at a Peruvian Think Tank (The Institute of Peruvian Studies), where she studied diverse topics related to Rural Development, especially financial literacy, and ran impact evaluations. Her dissertation focuses on the impacts of food price and food price risk, using primary and secondary data from different sources. Currently, she is also a graduate trainee in Population Studies at the Minnesota Population Center, where she studies the relationship between women’s time-use, climate, and child nutrition in rural Uganda

Amos is a graduate research assistant at Anadolu University, Eskisehir Turkey. His research interest focuses on Development Economics, Finance and Applied Microeconomics, particularly in understanding how financing frictions affect firm performance in developing countries.  He holds a BA. Development Finance (Microfinance), MA. Economic Policy Management from Makerere University and currently finalizing his PhD in Economics. Prior to doing his PhD, he worked as an investment advisor, lecturer, and finance officer. He was also a 2019 Young African Leaders Fellow at Kenyatta University Nairobi Kenya. 

I am PhD Candidate in Knowledge/Innovation Economics. My research interest is on the field of Innovation Systems, Innovation and Knowledge Economics, International Economics, Economic Growth, Development Economics (Climate Change, Enterprise Performance, Agriculture and Labor Productivities, Gender, Inequalities) and Quantitative Analysis (Macro and Micro Econometrics).