Ludwig Straub is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University’s Department of Economics. He has worked on the relationship between rising economic inequality and macroeconomic trends, as well as the propagation of fiscal and monetary policy in settings with inequality among households. He has recently studied the sectoral propagation of shocks in the recent COVID-19 crisis. Straub received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 and holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in mathematics and physics.
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Brennan Williams
Brennan Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics and an affiliate of the Environmental Inequality Lab. His research seeks to understand the economic consequences of environmental change. His work has explored the long-term effects of exposure to natural disasters during early childhood and the distributional consequences of environmental risk.
Cherrie Bucknor
Cherrie Nicole Bucknor is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Harvard University. Her research broadly examines the causes and consequences of economic and racial inequality in wealth, income, and the labor market. Her current projects examine how racial disparities in extended-family wealth contribute to disparities in the transition to homeownership, as well as the impact of right-to-work laws on Black workers. Bucknor has previously worked as a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where she conducted research on the labor market experiences of poor and otherwise-marginalized workers and the benefits of union representation. Her work is supported by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Bucknor holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from American University.
Luca Perdoni
Luca Perdoni is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Yale University. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor and urban economics. He studies the effects of place-based policies and the social environment on educational outcomes, earning trajectories and wealth accumulation. Perdoni’s dissertation investigates the role of redlining and family structure as sources of socioeconomic gaps in the United States. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics at Collegio Carlo Alberto and the University of Turin.
Disa M. Hynsjo
Disa M. Hynsjö was a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Yale University. She passed away in July 2021 because of complications from a rare, sudden, and brief illness. She was at work on a remarkable set of projects, including the distribution of family income; the effects of children and partners on the careers of women; the long-term effects of “redlining” of U.S. neighborhoods in the 1930s; and the effects of technical change on the demand for and return to skill. Hynsjö would have finished her Ph.D. in May 2022, and she had a very promising career ahead of her.
Jonathan Borowsky
Jonathan Borowsky is a researcher in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research interests focus on applying models and methods from his training in economics to understand questions related to early childhood care and education policy. Borowsky was an OPRE Child Care Policy Research Scholar in 2019–2020. His dissertation research used administrative data from Minnesota’s CCDF program to study the role of local variation in child care supply in the child care decisions of families receiving child care subsidies. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, his M. Ec. in economics from The University of New South Wales, and his A.B. in economics from Amherst College.
Wendy Morrison
Wendy Morrison is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Columbia University starting her fourth year. Her research focuses on how household and worker heterogeneity affect the transmission of monetary and fiscal policy. Her dissertation studies how monetary policy stimulates labor income unequally across occupations, making labor markets less effective at transmitting monetary stimulus. Morrison earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics.
German Gutiérrez
German Gutierrez is a Ph.D. candidate in finance at New York University Stern School of Business. His research interests are in macroeconomics and corporate finance, with a focus on market power of large firms. His dissertation studies the evolution, market power, and optimal regulation of Amazon.com Inc. using a mixture of theoretical models and empirical analysis. He holds a B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in operations research engineering from Cornell University and an M.Phil. in finance from NYU Stern.
Daniele Caratelli
Daniele Caratelli is a research economist at the U.S. Treasury Office of Financial Research. His research focuses on macroeconomics, specifically on monetary economics and labor macroeconomics. Caratelli holds bachelor’s degrees with honors in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Kritika Goel
Kritika Goel is a Ph.D. Candidate in economics at Boston College. Her research interests are in firm conduct and antitrust issues, specifically in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Her dissertation focuses on the effects of price discrimination by medical device manufacturers on product entry, consumer welfare, and the take-up of better technologies. She received her B.A and M.A in economics from the University of Delhi.