I am an Associate Professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Economics. I am also a faculty affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) and the Center for Global Action (CEGA), and non-resident research fellow at IZA and the Global Labor Organization (GLO).
My research areas are development economics, labor economics, and the economics of education. My current work focuses on education policy in developing countries (including Rwanda, The Gambia, India, and others), and promoting student success in higher education in the U.S.
I am a Principal Research Economist at the Office of the Chief
Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and Visiting Researcher at the Business School of
Imperial College London.I hold a PhD in Economics from the
Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm
University. I study private firms and labor markets in low- and
middle-income countries. Prior to joining the IIES, I worked in
Uganda, Nigeria and Senegal for several years, shaping my research
interests and learning how to conduct and use experiments to
answer to economics questions
Niccolò is an applied microeconomist with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. His research sits at the intersection of academia, policymaking and practice. He primarily uses
experimental methods to understand policy and governance challenges, and test solutions to overcome these challenges under political, institutional, technical and resources constraints.
I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Economics, Fudan University, China. My research areas include labor economics, behavioral and experimental economics, and Chinese economy. I am an Associate Editor of the China Economic
Review , 2021- present. I am also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021- present. Most recently, I employ both applied microeconomics methods and behavioral economics tools to understand gender inequality in the context of China.
Jon (JD) Denton-Schneider is an assistant professor of economics at Clark University. His research focuses on human capital – especially health – and the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing economies, past and present. JD earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2022.
YY Wong is Associate Professor at Binghamton University
I am an Assistant Professor of Microeconomics for Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs (formerly the School of International Studies) at the University of Denver. I received my PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in spring of 2022.
My research is at the intersection of public health, the economics of violence, and environmental health hazards. Broadly, I am interested in the ways that individuals cope with uncertainty and social turbulence, including housing insecurity, domestic violence, and poverty. My research includes data in all scales, including original data collection, "big" data and spatial analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviews. I have been published in such venues as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and Critical Social Policy.
My first book, Seeking Safe Harbor: How Public Policy is Sinking the Future of Domestic Violence Shelters, is under contract with the University of California Press.
Dr. Parsaeian is a professor of Econometrics at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of California, Riverside. Her research interest lies in the field of Econometrics. She has developed Econometric methods that result in better forecasting performance, in the sense of smaller forecast errors, under structural breaks. Her recent projects focus on panel data models with and without unknown factors in which there is latent group structures. She has worked on developing methods to categorize individual units into various groups.
Dr. Shatakshee Dhongde is a Professor of Economics at Georgia Tech. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Her research has focused on poverty, inequality, and deprivation. She was one of the first scholars to provide consistent estimates of multidimensional poverty in U.S. To date, she has published more than 20 refereed journal articles and book chapters and has presented her research at several national and international forums including the World Bank and the United Nations.
Dr. Dhongde is the recipient of Dean George C. Griffin Faculty of the Year Award (2022), Mary S. and Richard B. Inman, Jr. Faculty Excellence Award (2021), and Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award (2019). She is a Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement and a research affiliate with the Institute of Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work has featured in media, including the BBC and the NPR. Since 2021, she serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech.
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University.
My research is in the field of empirical macroeconomics with a focus on monetary policy