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.

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.

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