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

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.