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.
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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.
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.
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.
Jonathan Colmer
Jonathan Colmer is an associate professor of economics and public policy in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia and director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. He works to understand how growth, development, and the environment interact to shape prosperity, opportunity, and well-being. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, Science, Nature, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Colmer received his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.
Deniz Civril
Deniz Çivril is a research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and special sworn status researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau. Her research interests center on labor economics, international trade, and corporate finance. Her current projects explore the effects of state paid leave laws on firms using confidential U.S. firm- and individual-level data. She received her Ph.D. in international economics and finance from Brandeis University in 2014 and her M.A. in psychology from The New School in 2019.
Kristin Butcher
Kristin F. Butcher is vice president and director of microeconomic research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the inaugural holder of the Marshall I. Goldman Chair in Economics at Wellesley College. She has held positions as director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, where she continues as a nonresident senior fellow, as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as faculty positions at Boston College and Virginia Tech. She is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on immigration, health, education, and criminal justice. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Princeton University, an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College.
Sari Pekkala Kerr
Sari Pekkala Kerr is a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her studies on the gender wage gap, the mommy track, family leave policy, and immigrant entrepreneurship focus especially on women in the workplace. She is interested in how labor markets, along with policy and industrial conditions, shape the behavior of firms and the career trajectories of their employees. She received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and completed her postdoctoral work as the Yrjö Jahnsson Fellow in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.