I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) at the University of Michigan. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston in 2020. I am primarily interested in Applied Microeconomics with a focus on labor economics, public economics, and economics of crime. My current research is focused on identifying and measuring racial bias in law enforcement.

Beginning in August 2023, I’ll be joining the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Financial Economist.

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I am a development economist graduating in early June from the IIES, Stockholm University. I have extensive experience in conducting randomized controlled trials, and my research took place in Uganda and in Myanmar. I will join the EBRD as a Principal Economist starting from September 2023.

Leah Lakdawala is an Associate Professor of Economics and Clark Family Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. She specializes in development and labor economics, with a focus on human capital investments and how those investments are influenced by public policy. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, her MSc in Economics from University College London, and her BSc in International Economics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Dr. Caroline Krafft is an associate professor of economics at St. Catherine University. She received her master’s degree in public policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and her PhD from the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research examines issues in development economics, primarily labor, education, health, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. Current projects include work on labor market discrimination, gender and labor markets, living and minimum wages, the future of work, and education quality and inequality.

Ed was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree in business economics from Loyola College in Maryland. He completed a master’s degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University while also working full time for the Department of Defense. In 2009, Ed left Baltimore for Boulder, Colorado where he lived for six years and completed both a MA and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ed joined the faculty in the Department of Economics at Xavier University in 2015.

Ed teaches a variety of different courses, primarily in the area of applied microeconomics. He has taught several undergraduate courses including Microeconomic Principles, Microeconomic Analysis, Historical Development of the American Economy, Sports Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Research Methods in Economics. He also regularly advises undergraduate students in the department’s capstone experience. Ed is the academic adviser for undergraduate students pursuing a degree in economics through the College of Arts and Sciences.

Ed’s research interests lie at the intersection of economic history and labor economics, specifically investigating migration and migration policy. In addition to other topics in migration, Ed is particularly interested in exploring the causes and consequences of historical migration from Mexico the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Ed’s research appears in peer-reviewed, scholarly journals such as The Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and the Journal of Human Resources.

I am an assistant professor of Economics at the UCSD Public Policy School. I study issues related to development and labor, including education, migration, job creation and supply chains.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, and Fellow at the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh and Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre a LUMS.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy. I have done research projects on the incentives and preferences of public sector personnel, motivations of politicians, and social norms affecting women's participation in politics. My work has appeared in the Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. I use field experiments and quasi-experimental methods in my on-going research work.

My Ph.D. is from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. I did my undergraduate at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan where I was a National Outreach Program student. After undergrad, I did double masters at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University New York.

Priti Kalsi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Born in India, she immigrated to Maryland with her family as the youngest of four children. In the United States, she was raised by hard working immigrant parents who worked minimum wage jobs. She earned her BA in Economics from the University of Maryland, followed by her PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado. She was an Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University, Chico before she moved to RIT.

She has a wide ranging research portfolio covering many countries including India, Taiwan, El Salvador, Latin America, and the United States. Her research interests include fertility, sex ratios, and migration policies. Her scholarship has been published numerous times in journals such as the Journal of Development Economics and Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Bhabesh Hazarika is an Economist at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. His research areas are public policy, public finance management, development economics, the economics of the choice decision, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Hazarika has studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Gauhati University, Guwahati (M.A. in Economics). He has published his research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conducted several sponsored research projects in public finance and policy.

Dr. Jose Fernandez holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in economics from the University of South Florida. Dr. Fernandez’s research focuses on a wide range of risky behavior and mental health topics with a special focus on suicide and substance abuse, including opioid-related healthcare utilization. Dr. Fernandez has over 20 peer reviewed articles appearing in well-respected journals such as the International Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Health Service Research Journal. He has appeared in over 100 locals, regional, and national media interviews including NPR's Planet Money and the Indicator. Dr. Fernandez is a faculty scholar at the Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky, a member of the Statutory Committee Consensus Forecasting Group for the State of Kentucky, the former President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists, Member of the Committee on Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, and the chair of the Economics Department at the University of Louisville.