Ashish Kumar Sedai is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Colorado State University (CSU) in 2022, master's in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India and worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delhi from 2012-2017. He currently is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University and is a contractor for development research at the Asian Development Bank Institute. He specializes in labor, health, gender, and development research and has received the prestigious Warren Samuel’s prize from the Association for Social Economics for his research on “Gendered effects of piped water in India". Other notable works include the analysis of electrification in developing economies and its impact on household welfare and women empowerment, informal finance and women empowerment, political institutions and pollution, care shocks and time use. His research papers have been published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Energy Economics, World Development, The Energy Journal, Economics of Ageing, Journal of South Asian Development, and Economic and Political Weekly. He has also worked as a consultant, specializing in applied economic development research for the World Bank, United Nations and 2M Research.

Sudipta Sarangi is the Department Head and Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he has been a Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at Louisiana State University and a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. His research interests range from network theory to experimental and behavioural economics. He is a research associate of DIW Berlin, GATE, University of Lyon-St. Etienne, and the Lima School of Economics. He has been a consultant to organizations like the World Bank and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory and Studies in Microeconomics. He is the author of Economics of Small Things.

Spent 4 years in academia and 5 years in private sector now. When I started in my PhD program I was the only out economist I knew although I had heard of 2 others who I had never met.

Stephen L Ross, Syracuse University (PhD 1984), is a professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut and a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research Education Program. His research focuses on the experiences of disadvantaged groups, especially African-Americans, in U.S. cities including studying peer effects and social interactions, neighborhood effects, residential and school segregation, housing and mortgage lending discrimination, urban labor markets, primary and secondary education and racial profiling. His work has been published in Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, American Economic Journals: Economic Policy and Applied Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Social Problems, Social Science Research and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, as well as his book Color of Credit by MIT Press. His work has been funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, National Institute for Child Health and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Ford, MacArthur, WT Grant and FannieMae Foundations. He has been appointed to Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (University of Chicago), Penn Institute for Urban Research (University of Pennsylvania) and Center for Financial Security (University of Wisconsin-Madison). He is a Co-editor for Regional Science and Urban Economics and Education Finance and Policy and serves on editorial boards of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and many journals within urban economics. He has consulted for National Resource Council (National Academy of Science), Urban Institute, National Consumer Law Center, New York State Attorney General, FannieMae, Abt Associates, and K&L Gates.

My research interests lie in the fields of human capital, health, and development economics. My main line of research examines the impacts and interactions of different social interventions and family investments in the process of human capital formation in the short and long-term, and whether these effects translate to the next generation. Another area of my research studies the link between environmental factors and human capital outcomes across the life cycle.

I am an assistant professor of economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

I was born and raised in Colombia, where I earned a B.A. in economics (summa cum laude) and a B.A. in mathematics (cum laude) from Universidad de los Andes. I did a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, San Diego. I have affiliations at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), the Center for Global Development (CGD), and The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

My work focuses on the bottlenecks that impede high-quality government provision of education, health care, and environmental protection. In conjunction with my empirical research agenda, I work on methodological issues in applied econometrics and statistics.

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2019 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2019 - 2020. My primary research interests are in development economics and applied microeconomics, particularly in the areas of human capital formation, migration, and digital financial services.

I am a development economist with research interests in the economics of legal institutions (political economy), and organization structures in agricultural production. My research can be classified into three major buckets. First, I study the role of frontline judiciary (for e.g., district or county courts) and broader dispute resolution institutions in the economic development process. Second, I examine collective action and coordination in improving agricultural productivity in the context of smallholder agricultural production. This spans farmer producer organization structures, technology diffusion, and access to and management of local irrigation resources. Third, I study structural transformation process of moving from agricultural production into urban and/or non-agricultural sectors from the lens of rural land inequality.

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. I have a PhD in Economics from the Ohio State University. My research, teaching, and consulting interests are Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Gender Economics, Industrial Organization, Development Economics, and Agricultural Economics.

I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India. I joined IITK as an Assistant Professor in July 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in December 2019. While on leave from IITK, I have worked as an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates, between December 2020—December 2022, and as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, United States, in the summer of 2014.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine (2013) under the guidance of Ivan Jeliazkov (Chair), Dale J. Poirier, David Brownstone and Fabio Milani.

My research interest includes Bayesian Econometrics, Quantile Regression, Markov chain Monte Carlo Techniques, Measurement Error, Computation and Data Analysis, and Program and Policy Evaluation.