Anna Salomons is Foundation Institute Gak professor of employment and inequality at Utrecht University’s School of Economics in the Netherlands, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Center for Economic Policy Research. Her research focuses on the labor market impacts of advancing technology, and she has provided policy advice to, among others, the European Commission and the Dutch government. Salomons received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
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Bryan Seegmiller
Bryan Seegmiller is a Ph.D. candidate in financial economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. His primary research interests are in the economics of labor and financial markets. His research examines how technological change and innovation have impacted labor compensation, employment, and the nature of work performed. He also studies the interplay between labor market frictions and financial markets. In a secondary area of research, he has looked at how institutional investors and financial frictions impact stock price movements. Seegmiller received his B.S. in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University.
Gaston Illanes
Gaston Illanes is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the industrial organization of financial markets and on regulation. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Illanes received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.A. and B.A. in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Nathan Miller
Nathan Miller is the Saleh Romeih associate professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. His research covers topics in industrial organization and antitrust economics, with a recent focus on collusion and the competitive effects of mergers. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the RAND Journal of Economics, among other journals. Prior to joining Georgetown University, Miller served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he provided economic analysis for antitrust investigations. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Vivek Bhattacharya
Vivek Bhattacharya is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on industrial organization and regulation, with an emphasis on auctions and financial markets. Bhattacharya received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.S. in economics and physics from Duke University.
Paul Mohnen
Paul Mohnen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, where he was part of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database Project. His research focuses on issues related to the labor market, aging, and economic mobility. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Northwestern University, and his undergraduate degree in econometrics and operations research at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Steve Viscelli
Steve Viscelli is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Viscelli is a sociologist who studies work, automation, energy, and related policy. His first book, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream (University of California Press, 2016), explains how deregulation of trucking and the rise of independent contracting turned trucking from one of the best blue-collar jobs in the United States into one of the toughest. His current research looks at the impact of self-driving trucks on truckers and e-commerce on last-mile delivery workers. Viscelli earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University, a M.A. in anthropology from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in philosophy from Colgate University.
Damon Jones
Damon Jones is an associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He conducts research at the intersection of three fields within economics: public finance, household finance, and behavioral economics. His current research topics include household financial vulnerability, income tax policy, Social Security, retirement savings, worker benefits, and labor markets. Jones was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research in 2009–2010 and is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Jones received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds a B.A. in public policy with a minor in African American studies from Stanford University.
Andria Smythe
Andria Smythe is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her research interests include poverty, inequality, human capital, and intergenerational mobility. Her current research dossier includes work on student debt; business cycles and investment in higher education; college participation and racial differences in intergenerational mobility; and intergenerational transfers and wealth-building within families. In her work, Smythe emphasizes intergroup differences in the impact of a policy or shock as a way of shedding light on the sources of inequities in the economy. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from Temple University.
Luke Elliott-Negri
Luke Elliott-Negri is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of several articles about industrial unionism and social movements, and co-author of a policy report on Connecticut’s paid sick days law. His dissertation analyzes the prospects of a contemporary left-wing political party (the Working Families Party) against the backdrop of the literature on American exceptionalism with respect to party formation. His co-authored book about social movement success and failure is under review at Oxford University Press. He earned his M.A. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and his B.A. in sociology from Boston College.