I am a research economist in the Human Development Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group and an affiliate at CESifo Research Network and an affiliate at the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN). My primary research fields are development economics and economics of education, with a focus on violence and crime.

Combining experimental and non-experimental approaches, one strand of my research agenda studies how educational interventions implemented in developing countries can modify at-risk youth performance, including socio-emotional skills, mental health, and violent behaviors. I also empirically analyze the interaction between crime and welfare, noting how criminal organizations usually harm countries' economic growth paths. I have built original datasets from the ground up, by combining datasets from administrative and geographic records, with primary data collected by myself. I have additional ongoing joint research projects in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Peru, Mozambique, South Sudan, and Ukraine.

I obtained my Ph.D. and Master in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and my B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Economics from ESEN in El Salvador, the country where I was born and raised.

I am currently working as a Presidential Fellow (Academic) in Economics of Poverty Reduction, (lecturer with probation) at the Global Development Institute (GDI) in University of Manchester. I am also a research affiliate at the Centre for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics. I worked as a post-doctoral fellow with the Penn Social Norms Group (PennSONG), University of Pennsylvania on measuring the social networks relevant for and the social drivers behind behavior related to sanitation and open defecation in Bihar and Tamil Nadu (both rural and urban). Apart from this, I am also interested in issues related to social protection programs, education, social norms, health and empirical political economy. I primarily work on Development Economics, applied Econometrics and Impact Evaluation. I primarily work on Development Economics, Applied Econometrics and Impact Evaluation. I was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum where I taught courses on Impact Evaluation, Development Economics and Mathematical Economics. In GDI, I take a course on social norms and some lectures of Mathematical Economics, gender and education and poverty measurement. I completed my Ph.D. from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai in 2015.

Lee Crawfurd is a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on education policy in low and middle income countries. Previously he was an advisor with government in Rwanda, South Sudan, and the UK, and a consultant for international organizations and NGOs such as the World Bank, AfDB, and ADB. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Sussex and has studied at the University of Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Francisco Costa is an environmental and development economist with work on land use, climate change, energy efficiency, and regional development. His main research agenda concentrates on understanding how market incentives and policies can shape land use in tropical forests, with a focus on the Amazon rainforest. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, and an Invited Researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Before joining the University of Delaware, he was an Assistant Professor at Getulio Vargas Foundation's Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and his M.A. and B.A. from FGV EPGE.

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/fjmcosta

I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics group at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Prior to this, I have worked as an Assistant Professor in the Business Environment (Economics) Area at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. I have also briefly held faculty positions at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester as well as the Department of Economics at FLAME University. I completed my PhD in Economics from the University of Houston, USA.

I am also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) at Monash Business School, Monash University and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

In January 2023, I was awarded the "Prof M J Manohar Rao Award" by The Indian Econometric Society which is an annual award given out to young economists under the age of 35 who are working in India in recognition of their early career research in quantitative economics.

My research interests are in the fields of empirical issues in development economics with particular focus on the economics of education, labor, health, gender and human capital in general. Other than these, I take keen interest in topics in political economy of development such as public policy implementation, electoral behavior as well as behavioral economics perspectives on public institution efficacies.

Ryan Chahrour is an Associate Professor of Economics at Cornell University and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. His current research focuses on the role of people's beliefs in driving macroeconomic phenomena, including boom-bust cycles in the economy and the durable role of the US dollar in international exchange. His research also examines the effects of monetary and fiscal policy and the consequences of pricing frictions within and across countries.

Before joining Cornell, Ryan was an assistant and associated professor at Boston College between 2012 and 2021. Ryan has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, the Toulouse School of Economics, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Ryan completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2012. Prior to his graduate studies, Ryan received a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Swarthmore College and worked as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Carolina Castilla is a development and behavioral economist with broad interests in gender and intra-household bargaining. She is the Richard M. Kessler Professor of Economics Studies at Colgate University and is an Adjunct Research Associate Professor at Cornell Dyson School and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics. She feels that there is a lack of diversity in the economics profession. She would like to do her part, even if small, to help change that. She is a triple minority (female, Latina, and 1st gen) and would love to help anyone like her (or not) navigate the economics profession.

José Bayoán Santiago Calderón is a research economist in the national economic accounts research group at the Bureau of Economic Analysis.Before joining the federal statistical system, Dr. Santiago Calderón had years of experience in the private sector as a research scientist at various companies. Bayoán also held academic appointments with the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia, where he started his career in public service.

His research has centered on improving decision-making, emphasizing the public good (e.g., science policy). His transdisciplinary research approach has enabled him to routinely collaborate across disciplines and develop a diverse set of domain knowledge and methodological toolset. He also participates in various open-source software communities (e.g., JuliaLang) and civic activism (e.g., Code4PR, Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Accion).

Gregorio Caetano is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research interests are in public economics, urban economics, labor economics andapplied econometrics. His main applied focus is on the determinants and consequences of segregation, broadly understood as the result of similar people making similar choices. He has studied segregation along different dimensions (race, income, age, and gender) and different environments (neighborhoods, schools, and venues).

Caetano received his B.A. in Economics from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2000, his M.A. in Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2003,and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009.

Nathaniel Burke is an assistant professor in the economics department at West Virginia University's John C. Chambers College of Business and Economics. Nathaniel's primary research fields are behavioral economics and education with a special interest in using experiments and the economics of identity and is the founding director of the Behavioral Economics and Situational Testing (BEAST) Lab at WVU. He looks at the ways policies and social behaviors have identity-differing impacts on minorities in the education process and the ways that identity impacts rational behavior and decision-making in both lab and field experimental settings. Nathaniel is also a first-generation college graduate. Nathaniel did his Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas and received his M.S. in Resource and Applied Economics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Nathaniel did his B.A. in Economics at Manhattan College in NYC where he was also a D1 Track and Field athlete. Prior to entering his Master's degree program, Nathaniel spent 5 years in the Army on active duty and received an honorable discharge in 2016. While in the military, Nathaniel received an A.A.S in Intelligence Operations from Cochise College and a Linguistic Certification in Korean linguistics from the Defense Language Institute - Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, CA.

Nathaniel's cultural background is Afro-Puerto Rican. His family is primarily focused in the northeast in the NY/PA area with much of his family still living in Puerto Rico. Nathaniel is also an alumni member of the Gamma Lambda Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., a historically Black cultural fraternity, as well as serving as the chapter advisor of Rho Theta, the collegiate chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at West Virginia University.

When Nathaniel is not working on research or teaching, he enjoys game nights with his family, flying general aviation aircraft around West Virginia, walking his dog around Morgantown, hiking, biking, and running. He also likes coding new experimental games in Python, gaming with his brother, and engaging with low-income/marginalized students as a tutor and mentor.