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.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Towson University. I am an agricultural and development economist and I hold a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. Before starting my Ph.D. I was a researcher at the Peruvian think tank Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, where I conducted impact evaluations on financial education and did extensive fieldwork on agricultural economics, rural development, care economics, rural youth, and internal migration.

Apurav is an applied microeconomist with research interests in political economy, development economics and labour economics. He currently works as Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham, UK

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech.

I served five years in the US Marine Corps as a Cryptologic Linguist from 2008-2013. I received my PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota. Previously I worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute.

I am an applied labor economist. I focus my research on inequality in the labor market, education outcomes, and crime. Specifically, I focus on inequality by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity in the United States. I also focus some work on the economic outcomes of US military Veterans.

I currently work as an Economist at Amazon with specialization in causal inference. I specifically lead experiment designs and research for one of the leading geo-experimental tools at Amazon.

Prior to Amazon, I graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics and Public Policy at the Economics Department and the Fletcher School, Tufts University. My research interests are in Development Economics with a focus on financial inclusion, entrepreneurship and digital technology.

I have also worked as a Consultant with Oxford Policy Management Limited for seven years in the UK and India, leading impact evaluation and research projects in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Malawi and Nigeria. I hold a M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a B.A. (H) in Economics from the University of Delhi.