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.
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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.
Ravi Jagadeesan
Ravi Jagadeesan is an assistant professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in market design, theoretical public finance, and macroeconomic policy, with a particular focus on the role of market imperfections and optimal taxation. He received his A.B. in mathematics from Harvard College and his A.M. in statistics and his Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.
Ratib Ali
Ratib M. Ali is an associate at the Brattle Group. He is a competition economist with a focus in analyzing antitrust claims rising from mergers and firm conduct. His work spans the healthcare, technology, and aviation industries. Prior, he was an economic analyst at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in the Antitrust Division. He holds a B.S. in economics from BRAC University in Bangladesh, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Boston College.
David Berger
David Berger is an associate professor of economics at Duke University. His research interests are empirical macro/monetary economics, the influence of housing on the macroeconomy, and labor and finance. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in economics and history.