Johannes Schmieder is currently an associate professor in the Economics Department at Boston University. His research lies at the intersection between labor and public economics. In particular he has worked on how changes in firm structures due to vertical disintegration or domestic outsourcing have impacted labor market outcomes of workers. He has also studied the impact of Unemployment Insurance and other transfer policies on the job-search behavior of unemployed workers, the psychology of job search among the unemployed, and incorporating insights from behavioral economics into standard job search models. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
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Anna Salomons
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.
Bryan Seegmiller
Bryan Seegmiller is an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research interests are in labor and finance, technological innovation, and asset pricing. His current projects examine how labor market power affects firms’ profitability and labor shares; the ways new technologies shape the tasks that workers perform and the risks that workers face in the labor market; the impact of artificial intelligence on labor demand; and how frictions in the financial sector are transmitted into stock price movements. Seegmiller holds a B.S. in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in financial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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 an economic sociologist who studies work, labor markets, automation, and public policy. He is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 ecommerce on last-mile delivery workers. In addition to his academic research, Steve works with a range of public and private stakeholders to make the trucking industry more efficient, safer and a better place to work. Viscelli holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University, an M.A. in anthropology from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in philosophy from Colgate 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.
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.