Lorenz Goette is Professor and Provost’s Chair at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich in 2001. Prior to joining NUS, he held faculty positions at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the University of Bonn, Germany, and was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. His research interests are in behavioral economics, and most of his applications focus on field experiments. He works on interventions to help households conserve water and energy, and how to motivate individuals to contribute to public goods, such as blood donations or getting vaccinated. His research is published in leading journals in economics, such as the American Economic Review or Review of Economic Studies, and general-interest journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Yashodhan Ghorpade is a Senior Economist in the Social Protection and Jobs global practice of the World Bank working in the East Asia and Pacific region. His research focuses on the microeconomic analysis of conflict, migration, household behavior under duress, social protection, and informality. Yashodhan completed a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Sussex, UK, and has previously worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, UK), Oxford Policy Management Ltd., the ILO Child Labor Program, and World Bank country offices in New Delhi and Yangon. He has also been a visiting scholar at UNU-WIDER and IFPRI.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA and the Graduate Studies coordinator for the Economics department. I specialize in International Trade and Development Economics and my research has spanned development issues in India, Bolivia, Vietnam, China and Indonesia, and racial disparity issues in the USA. My work can be characterized as examining pressing economic development issues in the context of economic theory and testing the hypotheses using the latest econometric techniques. My research fuels my enthusiasm for making economics exciting and rewarding for all students.

I am a Senior Scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (ICAR-NIAP), New Delhi, India. I have a PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. My research lies at the intersection of food policy, agricultural economics and development policy. I have been working in the broad research areas of food and nutritional security, agricultural growth and modelling, and impact assessment.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Eckerd College and obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. My research focuses on utilizing experimental methods to analyze various aspects of cryptocurrencies. I mainly teach courses in Microeconomics, but enjoy adding concepts such as Game Theory and Law and Economics.

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury is Assistant Professor of Economics at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India and a research affiliate (2024–25) at South Asia Institute, Harvard University, where he was also a visiting research fellow for 2023–24. He was also the China-India Visiting Scholar Fellow for 2021-22, Ashoka University. His research spans the field of education economics, including K–12 and post-secondary. His recent work focuses on measurement and explanation of learning inequality, and its interaction with climate, technology and early-life decisions. His most recent collaborative study with University of Pennsylvania and University of Copenhagen examines how in-class smartphone bans affect student outcomes in India. Pradeep’s research has published in several peer-reviewed journals. Pradeep received his masters in economics from University of Hyderabad and Ph.D. in education economics from National University of Educational Planning and Administration in 2013.

Dr. Prasanthi Ramakrishnan is a labor economist, with her research interests at the intersection of Household Economics, Health Economics and Entrepreneurship. She focuses on different types of inequality in the labor market, either by gender or by race, and aims to understand the mechanisms causing these inequalities using cutting-edge microeconometric methods. Her research agenda explores the importance of incorporating education, marriage, and decisions within the household in analyzing changes to the social security system, a system that treats married and single households differently. Her agenda also studies differences in gender and race amongst entrepreneurs and to understand policy prescriptions to boost entrepreneurship, as well as incentives to take up health insurance amongst the poor and rich.

I am a behavioral economist with a broad interest in studying the labor market and the provision of public goods.

I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California. I have two verticals of research - in the US and in India. In the US, my current research focuses on evaluating the efficacy of Medicare Advantage (Part-C) especially as it pertains to patients of alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). In India, I am working on designing and testing scaleable interventions to improve child health (specifically improving ORS prescription rates for child diarrhea).

I completed my PhD at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in July, 2023. For my job market paper, I designed and evaluated a randomized controlled trial using the standardized patient method to identify caste and religion based discrimination in healthcare delivery among private providers in Bihar, India. Simultaneously, I worked on another large scale RCT that was aimed to identify barriers to ORS prescription for child diarrhea.

My primary areas of study are global health, health systems and health equity. I have experience using a diverse set of methodologies in these areas including RCTs, agent-based models, simulation models, and quasi-experimental methods using claims data.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. My Ph.D. is from the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business. My research lies at the intersection of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy.