I'm a Research Scientist in the Demography and Survey Science team at Meta Platforms, Inc. I completed a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. My research is in the field of applied microeconomics with a specific focus on topics in labor and development economics. 

My name is Patralekha (Pat) Ukil and I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics department at San Jose State University. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut in May 2020. My research interests are in the fields of labor, urban, health and development economics.

I am an Associate Professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Economics. I am also a faculty affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) and the Center for Global Action (CEGA), and non-resident research fellow at IZA and the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

My research areas are development economics, labor economics, and the economics of education. My current work focuses on education policy in developing countries (including Rwanda, The Gambia, India, and others), and promoting student success in higher education in the U.S.

I am a Principal Research Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Visiting Researcher at the Business School of Imperial College London.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. I study private firms and labor markets in low- and middle-income countries. Prior to joining the IIES, I worked in Uganda, Nigeria and Senegal for several years, shaping my research interests and learning how to conduct and use experiments to answer to economics questions.

Niccolò is an applied microeconomist with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. His research sits at the intersection of academia, policymaking and practice. He primarily uses experimental methods to understand policy and governance challenges, and test solutions to overcome these challenges under political, institutional, technical and resources constraints.

I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Economics, Fudan University, China.  My research areas include labor economics, behavioral and experimental economics, and Chinese economy.

Jon (JD) Denton-Schneider is an assistant professor of economics at Clark University. His research focuses on human capital – especially health – and the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing economies, past and present. JD earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2022.

YY Wong is Associate Professor at Binghamton University

I am an Assistant Professor of Microeconomics for Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. I received my PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in spring of 2022. My research is at the intersection of public health, the economics of violence, and environmental health hazards. Broadly, I am interested in the ways that individuals cope with uncertainty and social turbulence, including housing insecurity, domestic violence, and poverty. My research includes data in all scales, including original data collection, "big" data and spatial analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviews. I have been published in such venues as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health, Punishment & Society, and Critical Social Policy.

Dr. Parsaeian is a professor of Econometrics at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of California, Riverside. Her research interest lies in the field of Econometrics. She has developed Econometric methods that result in better forecasting performance, in the sense of smaller forecast errors, under structural breaks. Her recent projects focus on panel data models with and without unknown factors in which there is latent group structures. She has worked on developing methods to categorize individual units into various groups.