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.
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Andria Smythe
Andria Smythe is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. 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.
Fabian Pfeffer
Fabian T. Pfeffer is associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Sociology and research associate professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He serves as the director of the Center for Inequality Dynamics, as well as a co-investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. His research investigates social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. His current projects focus on wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, social mobility across multiple generations, the maintenance of inequality through education, and the effects of experiencing social mobility. His work appears in the American Sociological Review, the Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, and other outlets. He is the recipient of the Early Career Award from two sections of the American Sociological Association—the section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility, as well as the section on Sociology of Education. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Randall Walsh
Randall Phillip Walsh is a professor of economics at the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and directs the university's master’s in quantitative economics program. He is an economist whose work focuses on race, the environment, urban economics, and economic history. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University and his B.A. in economics from the University of New Hampshire.
José Ignacio Cuesta
José Ignacio Cuesta is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of interest are industrial organization and public economics. In his research, he has focused on studying the effects of the regulation of credit and health markets. His previous research has studied the implications of price regulation in credit markets, quality regulation in the pharmaceutical industry, and vertical integration in healthcare. At Stanford, he teaches industrial organization at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Spencer Banzhaf
Spencer Banzhaf is a professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University and the director of The Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy. He is also the editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Banzhaf’s primary field of study is environmental policy analysis, especially related to the urban environment (such as sprawl and land use) and to issues related to energy and air pollution. One common theme in his work is the interaction among local environmental quality, local real estate markets, and the demographic composition of cities, which together can drive the correlations observed between pollution and poverty, as described by the environmental justice movement. He received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in economics from Duke University.
Federico Huneeus
Federico Huneeus is a senior economist at the research department (DIE) at the Central Bank of Chile. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and trade, with a focus on understanding the aggregate implications of firm behavior. In particular, he has studied the market of business-to-business linkages and how it affects the propagation of shocks. He is currently studying how this market of business-to-business linkages influences workers, and in particular earnings inequality, in the context of imperfect competition in the labor market. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Thomas Wollmann
Thomas Wollmann is an associate professor in the microeconomics group at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a National Bureau of Economic Research faculty research fellow. Wollmann studies industrial organization economics, antitrust law, competition policy, and innovation. His most recent work studies a "loophole" in U.S. law that allows firms engaging in anticompetitive mergers to avoid detection by the antitrust authorities, resulting in significant consolidation of economically important industries. His work has appeared in top economics journals such as the American Economic Review and American Economic Review: Insights. At Booth, Wollmann teaches "Competitive Strategy," an MBA-level course. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.
R. Jisung Park
R. Jisung Park is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. He is an economist whose work focuses on environmental economics, labor economics, and the interactions between climate change and economic inequality. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and M.Sc. degrees in environmental change and management and development economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.