Alex Hollingsworth is an associate professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Hollingsworth is an economist who examines how regulations affect public health with interests in population health, environmental economics, substance abuse, and access to care.

Gregorio Caetano is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research interests are in public economics, urban economics, labor economics and applied 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.

Gabriel Lade is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Macalester College. He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, an M.A. in economics from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in economics and international affairs from the George Washington University. He specializes in environmental and natural resource economics. His areas of expertise include biofuels regulation, valuation of water and air quality, and utility water and energy conservation.

Riley Acton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Miami University and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Her research focuses on the economics of education and has been published in scholarly outlets such as the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, and Education Finance & Policy. She has also contributed to articles in the national media, including in the New York Times, CNN, and Fortune Magazine.

Prior to joining the faculty at Miami, Riley earned her Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and her bachelor's degree from Ursinus College.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Vanderbilt University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University. I work primarily in the areas of health economics, environmental economics, and applied microeconomics.

My research focuses on the impact of environmental toxins on child and infant heath and the role of environmental policy and regulation. My recent research explores the impact of environmental regulations, such as drinking water regulation, underground storage tank regulation and gasoline content regulation, on infant and child health.

I received my PhD from the University of California Davis in 2017, and am currently an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. My research spans an array of topics in applied microeconomics. Lately my research has focused on meta-science topics, such as publication biases and p-hacking. In my free time, I try to be outdoors and/or traveling.

I am a labor and public economist who employs quasi experimental techniques and field experiments to better understand the determinants of human capital. My work is in two main areas. I have published and ongoing work aimed at understanding the early-life determinants of human capital formation and another body of work aimed at understanding post-secondary education attainment. I am particularly interested in how public policies and student behaviors affect outcomes like major choice and persistence in higher education, especially among disadvantaged populations. The overarching goal of this agenda is to produce convincing evidence to help inform public policy decisions as they relate to human capital. More generally, this work has important implications for addressing inequality, as human capital is a central lever for economic mobility.

Kathleen Segerson is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics and at the University of Connecticut. She is an environmental economist, whose research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments, with applications in the following areas: groundwater contamination, hazardous waste management, land use regulation, climate change and nonpoint pollution from agriculture. She also works on ecosystem services and the protection of marine species. Dr. Segerson is a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and was recently elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

In my research, I examine the factors that drive chronic poverty in poor, agricultural settings. Often that means I focus on agricultural productivity and/or linked dynamics between biophysical systems and human welfare. I also do work on micronutrient malnutrition, and on intergenerational income and human capital transmission. I recently began work on mental health crisis response in the United States.

Juan Herreno joined the Department of Economics in July 2021. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in May 2020, and spent 2020-21 as a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. His primary interests are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the macroeconomic effects of financial frictions.