Elizabeth Palley is a professor in the School of Social Work at Adelphi University, where she directs the doctoral program. She studies and writes about policies that affect children with the aim of gathering information that can be used to improve the lives of young children, including education, health, and child care policies. Her work has appeared in The Hill, Real Clear Politics, Fox News Online, CNN Financial News, City Limits, and the Indypendent, and she was interviewed by Brian Lehrer on WNYC radio. She is also the co-author, with Corey Shdaimah, of In Our Hands: The Struggle for US Child Care Policy (NYU, 2014). Palley received her M.S.W. and J.D. at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and her Ph.D. in social welfare policy from Brandeis University, as well as her undergraduate degree in psychology from Oberlin College.
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Loujaina Abdelwahed
Loujaina Abdelwahed is an assistant professor of economics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cooper Union. Her research focuses on natural resources and their impact on various economic outcomes, including economic inequalities, election results, and fiscal policies. Abdelwahed received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her M.A. and B.A. in economics from the American University in Cairo.
Yao Lu
Yao Lu is a professor of sociology at Columbia University and faculty affiliate of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Columbia Population Research Center, and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Her research lies at the intersection of inequality, demography, and politics, with a primary focus on racial/ethnic and gender inequality in high-skill labor markets and the impact of immigration on socioeconomic inequality in sending and receiving societies. Her work takes a multidisciplinary approach and draws on a range of quantitative and computational methods. She has conducted two national surveys with her collaborators, including a 2020 survey experiment that investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped racial attitudes and relations in the United States. Lu received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her B.S. in statistics from Fudan University.
Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson is an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. His research seeks to understand how regulations and labor market policies affect workers and firms. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and his B.A. in economics and history from the University of California, Berkeley.
David Levine
David I. Levine is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he chairs the Economic Analysis and Policy Group. He is past chair of the university’s Center for Health Research and of the Advisory Board for the Center for Effective Global Action. Levine was an undergraduate at Berkeley. He has taught at the Haas School since receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1987. Levine has also had visiting positions at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Gregory P. Casey
Gregory Casey is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Williams College and an affiliate of the CESifo research network. His research focuses on environmental macroeconomics and economic growth. Casey received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University, his M.S. in economic development policy from the University of the West Indies, and his B.A. in economics and mathematics from Hamilton College.
Stephie Fried
Stephie Fried is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Arizona State University and a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Her research focuses on the effects of climate change and climate policy on the macroeconomy. She is an affiliate of the CESifo research network. Fried received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and her undergraduate degree in math from Grinnell College.
Matthew Gibson
Matthew Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Williams College and a research affiliate at IZA. He works in environmental and labor economics, particularly time use, wage determination, air pollution, and flood risk. Gibson received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and his undergraduate degree in history and literature from Harvard University.
Francisco Garrido
Francisco Garrido is an assistant professor at ITAM Business School in Mexico City. He got his Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University in 2020. His research focuses on industrial organization, antitrust, and structural econometrics.
Minji Kim
Minji Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Georgetown University. Her research agenda includes topics in industrial organization. She is working on the empirical study of platform competitions in the two-sided market. Her research examines how the market outcome changes with the different numbers of platforms operating. Kim received B.A. in economics and M.A. in economics from Seoul National University. Before joining Georgetown University, she worked as a marketing associate in POSCO.