Amanda is an Assistant Professor of Economics and affiliated professor in the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where she joined in Fall 2016. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) - North America. Her research focuses on the labor economics, discrimination, and the economics of crime. In Amanda's research she has analyzed the unintended consequences of criminal justice policies such as sex offender registration and ban the box laws. Her work has been published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Human Resources, and The Journal of Law and Economics. Prior to joining Rutgers University, she was a post-doctoral research associate in the Economics Department and the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. Economics from the University of Chicago in 2013 and holds a B.A.in Economics from George Mason University.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bentley University. My research interests center around population health, migration, and economic development. A recurring theme in my work involves the study of economically vulnerable populations. I use both experimental and quasi-experimental methods to conduct research. I frequently collaborate with local institutions by either partnering with them to collect data and design interventions or using their administrative data to inform policy.

James Allen is an Associate Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with interests in development economics in Sub-Saharan Africa relating to education and health. He has a PhD in Public Policy & Economics from the University of Michigan (2023) and served in the Peace Corps in Mali (2010-2012) while earning an MS degree in Agricultural, Food & Resource Economics from Michigan State University (2012). Prior to starting his PhD, James worked as a Research Director at the University of Kentucky where he studied local food systems and community and economic development. He has experience working in several developing countries, including Burundi, Mali, Mozambique, the Philippines and Rwanda.

Ama Baafra Abeberese is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Wellesley College. She is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on constraints to firm growth in developing countries. Her recent work analyzes firm responses to electricity costs and outages and the implications for productivity and growth, the effects of trade costs on productivity, and the role of government institutions and policies in firm behavior and outcomes. She holds a B.A. in Physics and Economics from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

Dr. Faisal Abbas completed his PhD Development Economics from University of Bonn, Germany in 2010. Faisal was hosted by Professor Stephan Klasen as an ‘Experienced Researcher’ at centre for Poverty, Equity and Growth, University of Gottingen, Germany from February 2017 to March 2019 where he taught courses ‘Gender and Development’ and ‘Poverty Measurement’, besides supervising graduate students. In the year 2015-16, Dr. Abbas was visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, USA. He worked as Assistant Professor, COMSATS University and South Asian University New Delhi India; as Senior Economist with National Tariff Commission Pakistan and Carlo Schmidt Fellow with World Health Organization, Geneva. He is affiliate of Global Labour Organization, and member National Strategic Interest Group on Public Health. Of note, He holds prestigious fellowships like; Fulbright, Volkswagen foundation, Carlo Schmidt, and Alexander von Humboldt and Sustainable Development Goals Fellowship. Besides being Associate Editor of PLOS ONE, PLOS Global Public Health, He is reviewer of about 40 Journals including BMJ, Lancet Global Health, World Development, Economic Modelling, Bulletin of World Health Organization and Applied Economics. He is reviewer of various HEC grant programs, Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oxford University Press, and Routledge. As Professor, Department of Economics, his research focuses on Health Economics, Development Economics and Gender issues.

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 healthcare 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 Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University.

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.