E. Mark Curtis is an associate professor of economics at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University, his M.A. in economics from Duke University, and his B.A. from Furman University. His primary fields of research are environmental, public, and labor economics with a particular focus on program evaluation, taxes, and environmental policy. His research has been published in economic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, and seeks to understand the implications of public policies for firms and workers.
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Ezra Karger
Ezra Karger is an economist in the microeconomics research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He works on topics in labor economics and industrial organization. His current research examines the effect of public libraries on children and the relationship between antitrust policy and the economic output of workers and firms. He received his B.A in mathematics, statistics, and economics, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics, all from the University of Chicago.
Anna Gassman-Pines
Anna Gassman-Pines is an associate professor of public policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and a faculty affiliate of Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy. Gassman-Pines received her B.A. with distinction in psychology from Yale University, where she was an affiliate of the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy, and her Ph.D. in community and developmental psychology from New York University. Her research focuses on the development of low-income children in the United States and, in particular, parents’ experiences outside the home—in low-wage workplaces, labor markets, and accessing social services—and the spillover to the home and the effects on family functioning and child well-being.
Simon Jäger
Simon Jäger is an assistant professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He graduated with a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University after studying economics at the University of Bonn and at the University of California, Berkeley. His work combines experimental and quasi-experimental methods with large administrative datasets to shed light on the functioning of labor markets and the origins and consequences of inequality. He holds affiliations with the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Institute for the Study of Labor, or IZA, among others, and will be visiting Stanford University in the academic year 2019–2020.
Scott Allard
Scott W. Allard is the Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Allard is also the associate dean for research and engagement. His primary areas of research expertise are urban poverty, employment among low-skill workers, food security, safety net utilization, and the spatial accessibility of governmental and nongovernmental safety net programs. He holds many other positions in and outside of the university, including serving on the Board and councils of several journals and centers. Allard holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.
Isaac Jabola-Carolus
Isaac Jabola-Carolus is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research focuses on paid in-home care work and policy efforts to raise labor standards within that rapidly growing industry. Through survey and interview methods, his dissertation examines how regulatory bodies and labor organizations affect workers’ rights enforcement in U.S. cities. Jabola-Carolus’ past research has been published in New Political Science, Social Movement Studies, and Sociological Insight. He has served as the New York Chapter Graduate Fellow for the Scholars Strategy Network, worked at the Participatory Budgeting Project, and taught sociology at Lehman College, City University of New York. He received his B.A. in development studies from Brown University.
Peter Blair
Peter Q. Blair is on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he co-directs the Project on Workforce. He serves as a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the principal investigator of the BE-Lab—a research group with partners from Harvard University, Clemson University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His group’s research focuses on the link between the future of work and the future of education, labor market discrimination, occupational licensing, and residential segregation. Blair received his Ph.D. in applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Sc. in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and his B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Duke University.
Piotr Dworczak
Piotr Dworczak is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. He received bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics at the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics, respectively, and then completed his Ph.D. at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He studies mechanism and information design, with specific focuses in market design, questions of redistribution, and the role of information in financial markets.
Peter J. Fugiel
Peter Fugiel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. His research examines scheduling and hours of work as a lens on job quality, social policy, and labor market inequality. He is working on a book about the making of fair workweek laws with support from the National Science Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Maningbe Keita Fakeye
Mani Keita Fakeye is a health equity research manager at Deloitte. She is also a faculty instructor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Fakeye’s research goals are to improve health and economic outcomes for older adults and their caregivers and to translate her research findings into equitable policy changes. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to her graduate studies, she earned her bachelor’s degree in public health studies at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.