I am an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policyand Economics Program at Oregon State University. I am also a Research Fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), an Invited Researcher for the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). My research areas are developmenteconomics, labor economics, and the economics of education. My current work focuses on education policy in developing countries (including Rwanda, The Gambia, and India), and promoting student success in higher education in the U.S.

Dr Andrea La Nauze is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor with tenure) at the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. She returned to Australia after 4 years as Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Dr La Nauze is an environmental economist with a focus on studying household behaviour. She has published in top general interest journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics and top field journals like the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She has two main research agendas: one on retail electricity markets and in particular the impacts of rooftop solar and electric vehicles. The other agenda is on the impacts of air quality and air quality monitoring. She is particularly interested in behavioural responses to information and financial incentives and the unintended effects of environmental policy.

I am an assistant professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong City, South Korea. I am also a Research Affiliate at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) in Bonn, Germany.

My research and teaching interests include the microeconomics of development, applied microeconometrics, labor markets in developing countries, and poverty.

My current work focuses on three separate strands of literature: labor allocation, poverty, and methodologies to improve estimates of statistics of interest to economists and policymakers. Ongoing work studies how households allocate their labor in developing countries, with a particular focus on how market failures and the overall environment affect allocation decisions. I also have ongoing work studying poverty and the best ways to improve poverty estimates, whether across time or across space. Relatedly, in work with regular collaborators, we are studying the best options to estimate different statistics – including poverty and labor force statistics – in developing countries, where data infrastructure may not allow the types of methods used in developed countries. For example, we are studying whether small area estimation methods or machine learning methods – like XGBoost and other implementations of random forests – offer more accurate predictions of different outcomes and at different levels of aggregation.

I am an associate professor of economics at Emory University and a research associate with the NBER. My research examines the effects of institutions, policies, and market structure on health care pricing and delivery, focusing specifically on the role of information disclosure and the relationships between different healthcare providers. Prior to joining Emory, I was a director in the economic consulting practice of FTI Consulting and the Director of Health Economics for Baylor Scott and White Health in Dallas, TX. I received my PhD in Economics from Indiana University.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs and the Department of Economics. My research focuses on issues in public finance, with a particular interest in the nonprofit sector. Recent work has examined the impact of charity ratings, as well as the long-run distribution of philanthropy.

I am a Research Scientist in the Economics and Policy Research team at Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, I completed my PhD in Economics at Northwestern University. My research interests are in the economic issues of developing countries, with a focus on trade policy, agriculture, technology adoption, financial inclusion, and political economy.
In the past, I worked as a Consultant in the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation group, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Ghana. I have conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Bangladesh, and India. Prior to my PhD, I received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University.

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.