Soham Sahoo is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is currently also a Visiting Fellow at International Inequalities Institute – London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn. His research interest is broadly in development economics, with a focus on education, labour, and political economy. Soham holds a PhD in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Before joining IIM Bangalore, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Germany. He has also held visiting positions at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies – University of Goettingen, and Institute for Employment Research – University of Warwick.
I am an assistant professor in economics at Binghamton University (SUNY), working on topics related to family economics, marriage, and education. I obtained my PhD from Rice University in 2022 and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) from 2022-2023.
Mu Zhang is an assistant professor of Economics in University of Michigan. He received his BA in Economics and B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tsinghua University, and his MA and PhD in Economics from Princeton University. He is a microeconomic theorist. His research focuses on decision theory and behavioral economics.
I’m a Professor of Policy and Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London, in the School of Business and Management.
My research analyses how to overcome the most significant barriers to economic development. I am particularly interested in three of these barriers:
-Violent conflict
-The persistent effects of inequalities in wealth
-Poor economic governance
I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King’s College).
I’ve been at Queen Mary University of London since 2015. I previously taught and held research positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Other current affiliations:
Member, Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)
Member, Oxford-LSE Improving Institutions for pro-poor Growth (iiG)
Member, Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS)
Member, Equity and Development Research Group (EDReG)
My research has been published among others in Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Development, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Development Studies, Development Policy Review, Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Public Money and Management, among many others.
I am a applied microeconomist working on Labor, Education and Development Economics. My research focuses on the effects of (better) transportation on college access and choice and how college reputation affects labor market outcomes. In other work, I study the spillover effects of large policies in education markets and health outcomes. I currently have ongoing projects in Peru and the Dominican Republic.
I am an environmental economist with research themes spanning development, agriculture, and political economy. My work studies how economic activity and institutions shape the environment, including biodiversity, land use, and air quality. I completed a PhD and MA from the University of British Columbia, and a BA from McGill University. I was also previously an EPoD fellow at Harvard and a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia.
Mahesh Karra is an Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, the Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative, and the Director of the Program on Women's Empowerment Research at the BU Global Development Policy Center. His academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His research utilizes experimental and non-experimental methods to investigate the relationships between population, health, and economic development in low- and middle-income countries. He has conducted field work in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, and his current research uses randomized controlled trials to evaluate the health and economic effects of improving access to family planning and maternal and child health services in Malawi, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. He has also worked for the Population Reference Bureau and the Futures Group International and served as a consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Population Council. He is also a Co-Editor of Studies in Family Planning, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on public health, social science, and biomedical research on sexual and reproductive health, fertility, and family planning. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Hispanic Studies (Joint Honours) from McGill University, an M.Sc. in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and an Sc.D. in Global Health Economics from Harvard University.
Dick Startz is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and professor emeritus at the University of Washington (where he served as department chair and as a divisional dean). Professor Startz has published empirical work on a wide range of topics as well as making a number of contributions to econometric methodology. His work in education has seen two main outlets. The first is his book, Profit of Education (Praeger 2010), which builds the economic case for higher teacher salaries. The second main outlet blogging about education at the Brookings Institution Brown Center Chalkboard and his blog www.ProfitOfEducation.org, which has been described as “Freakonomics for the economics of schooling.” The roughly 500 posts are split between original, short data-driven analyses of topics in the economics of education and reviews of research findings from the academic literature. In addition to his work on the economics of education, Professor Startz is the coauthor of a macroeconomics text which has been translated into 8 languages, several books on personal computing, and many academic journal articles. More information can be found at http://startz.weebly.com/.
I am an industrial organization economist who studies interactions among firms, consumers, and the government to understand and improve others’ lived experiences. My research has three broad themes. First, I focus on high-profile social, political, and economic questions. Second, I develop and apply innovative new methods to overcome challenges in answering these questions. Third, I take my work out of the academy to help policymakers understand the impacts of their decisions.
I am an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, with my research specialty being Public Economics and Development economics.