I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. I am an affiliate of the CESIfo Research Network, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Energy for Growth Hub. I am also an invited researcher at J-PAL under multiple funding initiatives.

Willa Friedman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. She completed a PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley and a Bachelors in Social Studies at Harvard. She was previously a Fellow at the Office of Evaluation Sciences and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Before her PhD, she worked with International Child Support/Innovations for Poverty Action in Busia, Kenya. She uses field and natural experiments to understand how people make decisions about their own, their family's, and others' well-being, and how these decisions shape the ultimate impact of policies considered. This has included designing, managing, and analyzing the effects of large RCTs and natural experiments in Ghana, Mali, Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Rwanda.

Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik is an applied economist who is an associate professor at Emory University. His research is concentrated in three areas: infant and childhood health, family economics, and economics of education. On the first, he studied short-, medium- and long-run consequences of prenatal health, prenatal care incentives, access to hospital and nursing care in early childhood, sickness in childhood, and availability of junk food in childhood and adolescence. In family economics, his papers documented how parental decisions and resources shape the human capital development of their children and how siblings affect each other. Finally, in economics of education, he was involved in evaluation of school choice programs in Florida and Ohio. The overarching theme for all these research questions is understanding and enriching the human capital production function. Some of his current research projects include studying minority peer effects (education), birth order effects over a century (family), and how post-natal interventions could reduce inequality generated by prenatal health shocks (health).

I am an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of labor, family, and health. My research also involves using molecular genetics data to study economic outcomes. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Millsaps College.

When I am not doing Economics, you can find me on a tennis court trying to replicate Roger Federer.

I completed a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and my independent research is in the field of applied microeconomics with a specific focus on topics in labor and development economics.

My name is Patralekha (Pat) Ukil and I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics department at San Jose State University. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut in May 2020. My research interests are in the fields of labor, urban, health and development economics.

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.