Austin is an Associate Professor at Bates College and was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at Miami University (Ohio). He is an empirical microeconomist working on policy questions in the health, education, and labor-market sphere. His current research projects examine the impact of compensation structure on employee output, occupational licensing, and factors affecting the academic performance and early career outcomes of college students. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, and exploring the outdoors with his family.

Courtney Coile is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of Economics at Wellesley College. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where she serves as co-director of the NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center. Professor Coile is a member of the Committee on Population at the National Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the economics of aging and health, with particular interests in retirement decisions and public programs used by older and disabled populations. Dr. Coile received her PhD in economics from MIT and AB from Harvard University.

Beyza Ural Marchand is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta. Her research fields are development economics and international trade with a focus on the microeconomic impacts on households. More specifically, she studies the effects of international trade on poverty, income distribution, consumer prices, child education, and child health, as well as the effects of energy access on household incomes. Her work has been published in well-known journals such as the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, Quantitative Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization.

Dr. Ural Marchand has completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and her Bachelor of Science in Statistics at METU, Turkey. She joined the faculty of the University of Alberta in 2007. Currently, Dr. Ural Marchand is also a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Germany, and serves as the Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Department of Economics, University of Alberta.

Prabhat Barnwal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Michigan State University. His research is in environmental and development economics. Born and raised in India, he received his undergraduate degree in engineering from India. He received his Ph.D. from School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2015.

Alex Hollingsworth is an associate professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Hollingsworth is an economist who examines how regulations affect public health with interests in population health, environmental economics, substance abuse, and access to care.

Gregorio Caetano is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research interests are in public economics, urban economics, labor economics and applied 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.

Gabriel Lade is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Macalester College. He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, an M.A. in economics from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in economics and international affairs from the George Washington University. He specializes in environmental and natural resource economics. His areas of expertise include biofuels regulation, valuation of water and air quality, and utility water and energy conservation.

Riley Acton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Miami University and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Her research focuses on the economics of education and has been published in scholarly outlets such as the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, and Education Finance & Policy. She has also contributed to articles in the national media, including in the New York Times, CNN, and Fortune Magazine.

Prior to joining the faculty at Miami, Riley earned her Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and her bachelor's degree from Ursinus College.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Vanderbilt University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University. I work primarily in the areas of health economics, environmental economics, and applied microeconomics.

My research focuses on the impact of environmental toxins on child and infant heath and the role of environmental policy and regulation. My recent research explores the impact of environmental regulations, such as drinking water regulation, underground storage tank regulation and gasoline content regulation, on infant and child health.

I received my PhD from the University of California Davis in 2017, and am currently an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. My research spans an array of topics in applied microeconomics. Lately my research has focused on meta-science topics, such as publication biases and p-hacking. In my free time, I try to be outdoors and/or traveling.