Hazhir Rahmandad is the Schussel Family professor of management science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. His research draws on fieldwork, quantitative models, and experimental data to understand the adoption of different strategies among firms. His research has shown how significantly different strategies in terms of employee’s experience could co-exist in mass market services and has elaborated on challenges to adoption of “good jobs” strategies in this sector. Rahmandad’s research also spans methodological and public health contributions, has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, and has appeared in diverse journals, including Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Journal of Public Health, and Obesity Reviews, among others.
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Jacob Orchard
Jacob Orchard is a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of California, San Diego, with interests in empirical macroeconomics and monetary policy. Prior to graduate school, he double majored in mathematics and economics at Brigham Young University and worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His current research focuses on inflation dispersion—the idea that individuals have different inflation rates because of different preferences and ability to substitute—and the consequences of inflation dispersion for macroeconomic policy.
Jennifer Romich
Jennie Romich is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington and faculty director of the West Coast Poverty Center. She studies resources and economic well-being in families with an emphasis on low-income workers, household budgets, and families’ interactions with public policy. Her recent projects include research into effective marginal tax rates created by means-tested benefit schedules and the tax system; an investigation of income of families involved with the child welfare system; and mixed-method evaluations of the Seattle Paid Safe and Sick Time Ordinance and $15 minimum wage. She co-leads the national effort on “Ending Economic Inequality” for the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare’s Grand Challenges Initiative and co-chairs a national research network on poverty, employment, and self-sufficiency through the Consortium of U.S. Poverty Centers.
Eric Ohrn
Eric Ohrn is an associate professor of economics at Grinnell College. His research exploits natural experiments to study the effects of corporate taxation on labor demand, inequality, and business investment. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and graduated from Grinnell College with a B.A. in economics and mathematics.
Elton Mykerezi
Elton Mykerezi is an associate professor of applied economics and an extension economist with the Center for Community Vitality at the University of Minnesota. He is an applied microeconomist with research interests that include the study of human capital, causes of poverty, food insecurity and poor nutrition, the role of public assistance in enhancing household well-being, rural business, and labor market development. Mykerezi has co-authored research on a wide variety of topics, including: human capital in rural areas and among rural minorities; economic development in Indian Reservations; teacher labor markets; interactions between household well-being, labor markets, and food assistance; and ways to improve childhood nutrition. His extension and outreach program aims to improve economic opportunities for vulnerable populations by focusing primarily on access to healthy foods, a quality education, and opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment.
Krista Ruffini
Krista Ruffini is an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on labor and public economics, with an emphasis on examining how income support policies affect education, labor market, and health outcomes. Previously, Ruffini was a visiting scholar at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute. She received her Ph.D. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an M.P.A. from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in economics, international relations, and political science from Boston University.
Benjamin Schoefer
Benjamin Schoefer is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers macroeconomics and labor economics. In much of his work, he uses microeconomic data and quasi-experimental variation generated by economic policies to study macroeconomic theories of wage determination and employment adjustment. He holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
Simon Mongey
Simon Mongey is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. His research consists of quantitative studies of the U.S. economy combining microdata and macroeconomic models to understand changes in the economy over time and the effects of counterfactual economic policies. His research has focused on the role of market structure in monetary economics, labor economics, and product markets, and the functioning of frictional labor markets. He received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University and graduated from University of Melbourne with a B.A. in economics. Before joining the University of Chicago, he spent a year as a junior scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Gregor Schubert
Gregor Schubert is an assistant professor of finance at University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. in business economics at Harvard University. His research interests include urban, labor, and housing finance, with a particular interest in the drivers of differences in regional economic outcomes. Before his studies at Harvard, he worked in strategy and litigation consulting. He earned his B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. in economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
Daniel Mangrum
Daniel Mangrum is a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research focuses on the impact of education policy in the United States on human capital and labor market outcomes for low-income and first-generation college students. Mangrum also examines how nutrition interventions affect standardized test scores and school attendance for children in food-insecure areas. In addition to education economics, he studies topics in urban and transportation economics. Mangrum earned his B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Memphis and his Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University.