Benjamin Schoefer is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. 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.
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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.
Anna Stansbury
Anna Stansbury is an assistant professor in work and organization studies at MIT Sloan and on the core faculty of MIT’s Institute for Work and Employment Research. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She specializes in labor and macroeconomics, with a particular focus on the role of market power and outside options in the labor market. She previously worked as a research assistant for Larry Summers, Martin Feldstein, and the Harvard Center for International Development. Stansbury has a B.A. in economics from Cambridge University, an M.A. in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Mark Long
Mark C. Long is a professor of public policy and governance and adjunct professor of economics at the University of Washington. He was elected in 2019 to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Education Finance and Policy and previously served as vice president, executive council member, and policy council member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management; managing editor and co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; interim director of the West Coast Poverty Center; and executive committee member of the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. He is an associate editor of the American Educational Research Journal. Long holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan, an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan, a secondary teaching credential via the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from DePauw University. Long’s research examines the effects of public policies on economic opportunity and efficient social mobility, with emphasis on estimating the benefits and costs of those policies. Long’s research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, fivethirtyeight.com, Politico, Forbes, Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News and World Report, and numerous other outlets.
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato is an associate professor of economics at Duke University. He also is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. Suárez Serrato studies how taxes and government spending affect economic growth and welfare. His work bridges insights from public finance with other fields, including labor, trade, development, industrial organization, and urban economics. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, his B.A. in economics and mathematics from Trinity University, and is a proud graduate of the AEA Summer Training Program in economics.
Alex Kowalski
Alex Kowalski is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Work and Employment Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. Drawing on interdisciplinary training in sociology, economics, and industrial relations, his research investigates worker involvement in firm decision-making, technology adoption, and flexible work practices. He received a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on community and economic development. Prior to that, he was a U.S. economics reporter for Bloomberg News in Washington, DC.
Conor Walsh
Conor Walsh is assistant professor at Columbia Business School. His main interests are the macroeconomics of growth, firm dynamics, and renewable energy, and how these relate to the economics of cities. He holds a bachelors of international studies from the University of Sydney, and two masters and a doctorate in economics from Yale University.
Scott Duke Kominers
Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 associate professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard University’s Harvard Business School, and a faculty affiliate of both the Harvard Department of Economics and the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. He studies market and mechanism design, with a particular focus on matching and inequality. He also serves as co-leader of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity’s Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy working group and is vice chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation. Kominers received his A.B. in mathematics and Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.