Jonathan Rothbaum is a research economist in the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in economics from The George Washington University in 2013. He is a labor economist researching the use of administrative data in the estimation of income, resource, and well-being statistics, particularly focused on measurement error, nonresponse, and imputation. He also researches equality of opportunity and intergenerational mobility. Before embarking on the path of economics, he worked as a computer programmer and as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small Andean village in Ecuador.
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Matthew C. Weinberg
Matthew Weinberg is an associate professor of economics at The Ohio State University. His research is primarily in industrial organization, with a focus on the analysis of mergers, collusion, and antitrust enforcement. Weinberg received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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.
Cristobal Young
Cristobal Young is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. He studies how sociological dynamics shape the effects of public policies, in areas ranging from Unemployment Insurance to millionaire taxes. His methodological work focuses on multiverse analysis and robust results. Young received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University, and M.A. and B.A. degrees in economics from the University of Victoria.
Ashvin Gandhi
Ashvin Gandhi is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management. His research centers on industrial organization and regulation, especially in the healthcare industry. His work has been featured by numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. It has also been cited in both House and Senate hearings, as well as used by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics from Pomona College.
Paul J. Eliason
Paul Eliason is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Brigham Young University, where teaches healthcare economics and econometrics. His research focuses on industrial organization and public economics, with an emphasis on healthcare markets. He is interested in how regulation and financial incentives influence providers and shape healthcare provision. Eliason received his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University in 2018 and his B.A. in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University.
Ryan C. McDevitt
Ryan McDevitt is a professor of economics at Duke University. His research focuses on industrial organization and applied microeconomics. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and a B.A. in economics from Williams College.
James W. Roberts
Jimmy Roberts is a professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on industrial organization and applied microeconomics. Roberts received his Ph.D. in economics from the Northwestern University and his B.A. in economics from Davidson College.
Gernot Wagner
Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia University. He previously taught climate economics and policy at New York University, where he was a clinical associate professor at the Department of Environmental Studies and associated clinical professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risk and climate policy. Prior to joining NYU, Wagner was the founding executive director of Harvard University’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, a research associate at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy. Before Harvard, he served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, from 2008 to 2016, most recently as lead senior economist (2014–2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015–2016). Wagner writes the Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green and has written or co-written four books: But will the planet notice? (2011), Climate Shock (2015), Stadt, Land, Klima (2021), and Geoengineering: the Gamble (2021). Gernot holds a joint A.B. in environmental science and public policy, and economics from Harvard University; an M.A. in economics from Stanford University; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University.