Ergin Bayrak, Ph.D., is an associate professor (teaching) of Economics with the University of Southern California Department of Economics, which he joined in 2011.
Prior to his appointment with USC Economics, Bayrak was a lecturer and Scholar in Residence with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and a Research Associate with the USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE).
In 2009 he was a Google Policy Fellow with the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.
Bayrak teaches courses in microeconomic principles, theory, analysis and policy and applications in the telecommunication industries and innovation.
Selected Publications
• "Valuing Time Intensive Goods: An Application to Wireless and Wired Internet." Internet Econometrics. Serge Allegrezza and Anne Dubrocard, Eds. AEA Series, Palgrave Macmillan (2012).
• "Assessment of the Regional Economic Impacts of Catastrophic Events: CGE analysis of resource loss and behavioral effects of a RDD attack scenario." Risk Analysis 2012 Apr; 32(4):583-600 (with J. Giesecke, W. Burns, A. Barrett, A. Rose, and M. Suher)(2012).
• "The Economics of Cloud Computing." Korean Economic Review Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2011, 203-230 (with John Conley and Simon Wilkie)(2011) .
• "Welfare Effects of Spectrum Management Regimes." New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks 3rd IEEE Symposium, 1-11. (2008).
• "Liberalization, TFP and Growth: Argentina and Turkey since the 1970s." Empirical Models in Social Sciences Proceedings of IEU ISC, 31-47 (2008).
Laura Zimmermann holds a joint position as an associate professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of International Affairs (Political Science) at the University of Georgia. Her work focuses on two areas: Studying the economic and political impacts of large government policies in developing countries to generate a holistic picture of how anti-poverty efforts can be made more effective; and understanding how households deal with economic shocks, particularly with respect to job opportunities as well as the allocation of resources to women and girls.
Born and raised in Germany, Laura received her BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford (2008), and her MA (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Dr Rashmi Barua teaches at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). Prior to that she has worked at the School of Economics, Singapore Management University and the Economics and Planning Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Her research spans across the economics of education and labor markets with specific interest in early childhood human capital investments (health and education), female labor supply and economics of crime. More recently she has worked on financial education among international migrants. Most of her research has been a mix of methodological contributions, including randomized evaluations, and empirical applications that are guided by sound economic theory. A native of India, she received a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 2008
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel is a Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston in 2009. She earned a B.S. Degree in Economics from METU, Turkey in 2004. Her research focuses on topics intertwining Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Health Economics. She has been especially interested in the long-term effects of childhood environment, educational and health policies on individuals’ long-term labor market, education, and health outcomes.
Michael LaForest-Tucker is an assistant professor of economics & public policy at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School. His research leverages experimental, quasi-experimental, and structural modeling methods, with a particular focus on criminal justice, education, and military personnel policy.
Michael was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) and Analyst at USAFA’s Office of Labor and Economic Analysis. Prior to that he worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Penn State’s Criminal Justice Research Center and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and as a research director with the University of Chicago's Crime & Education Lab in New York City. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia and a BS in economics & political science from the University of Michigan. During AY25-26 he will be visiting the University of Copenhagen's Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality.
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Completed Ph.D. in Public Policy at Harvard University in 2019.
My name is Sebastian Tello-Trillo, I am an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). My fields of specialization are Health Economics and Applied Microeconomics. I research on topics related to health insurance, mental health, Medicaid, health behaviors, and HIV. I have interest in the areas of health policy in the U.S and Latin America.
With Alex Hollingsworth, I am the co-host of the podcast "The Hidden Curriculum", a podcast on topics of productivity in the economics profession. I also gladly help out with the organization EconThaki, an organization that’s helping decrease the barriers of the path for PhD in Econ by providing information and classes. If you are interested in helping out shoot me an email!
Dr. Sandra Trejos is a Professor of Economics and Assistant Chair for the Business, Economics and Communication Department at Pennsylvania Western University (PennWest) - Clarion Campus and a Costa Rican native who became U.S. citizen in 2018. She has been part of the Faculty at PennWest since 2004 where she received tenure and promotion to full professorship in 2009. Nationally, Dr. Trejos received the Outstanding Latina Faculty: Service/Teaching in Higher Education Award at the 2014 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (A.A.H.H.E) Conference in Costa Mesa, California. She earned the 2009 Clarion University Outstanding Faculty Equity Award, and the 2010 Clarion University Faculty of the Year award at the Student-Athlete Luncheon.
In the economics profession, she is part of the American Society of Hispanic Economists, officially recognized by the American Economic Association as one of the affiliated organizations of the Allied Social Science Association (A.S.S.A.), and the Pennsylvania Economic Association (P.E.A.) where she served as the 2011-2012 Vice-President of Publicity, the 2012-013 Vice-president of Program and Proceedings and the 2013-2014 President Designate. She presided the P.E.A. during the 2014-2015 period. She is currently a mentor for the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (D.I.T.E) housed at Duke University, the American Economic Association Summer Program – Pipeline Conference and the Association for Mentoring and Inclusion in Economics (A.M.I.E.).
Dr. Trejos has received multiple grants for research and professional development at both the college and the university levels throughout the years and was the principal investigator for a grant by the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education. She has been a reviewer for different publication outlets and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. She has also served as external reviewer for colleagues in the field and has done work for Pearson Publishing and published scholarly work in several peer-reviewed journals in the fields of economic education (as inspired by classroom-based research), international economics, and economic development. Lately, she has worked in the field of happiness economics.
Finally, Dr. Trejos served as judge for the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (P.J.A.S) for six years at both the regional and state levels.
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University and Research Fellow at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. My research focuses on understanding gender and racial disparities in the labor market and evaluating the effectiveness of various interventions to improve outcomes for women and minorities.
I am also a Research Director at Science of Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and Co-Director of the BYU Gender & Civic Engagement Lab.
I am an applied economist with research interests in agricultural and food
policy. Currently, I work as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I received my Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and my undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Chicago. I have also previously worked at Mississippi State University and the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
My research focuses on economic decision-making throughout the food supply chain from agricultural production to consumer demand. I am currently particularly interested in studying US agricultural production and applying modern econometric techniques to high-resolution panel data. By better understanding how individual producers and consumers make decisions, I hope to support producers, address market failures, and inform evidence-based policymaking.
In addition to my research, I greatly enjoy teaching. I have received several teaching awards including the UW–Madison Taylor Hibbard Club Excellence in Teaching Award (2020, 2023), the Myron H. and Anna Atwood Faculty Fellow Award (2022), and the Robert R. Spitzer Teaching Excellence Award (2023). In 2019, I also earned a Certificate for Veterans’ Administrators and Certifying Officials from Mississippi State University.