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.
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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.
Heather Hill
Heather D. Hill is an associate professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Her research examines how public and workplace policies influence family economic circumstances and child well-being in low-income families. She has studied the prevalence and consequences of economic instability, particularly income variability, during childhood. As an investigator on the Seattle Minimum Wage Study, Hill led a longitudinal, qualitative study of workers in Seattle during the implementation of the City’s Minimum Wage Ordinance. She is also leading the analysis of national health data to examine the relationship between state minimum wage levels and adult and child health outcomes. Hill has a Ph.D. in human development and social policy from Northwestern University and a M.A. in public policy from the University of Michigan. At the University of Washington, she is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology and of the Executive Council of the Population Health Initiative, as well as an affiliate of the West Coast Poverty Center.
Mohammad Akbarpour
Mohammad Akbarpour is an associate professor of economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and an associate professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Akbarpour’s research focuses on market design and social networks. Recently, he has worked on problems related to inequality in market design and network targeting with applications in development economics. He is also an instructor at Khan Academy Farsi, teaching hundreds of high-school level video lessons in game theory, physics, calculus, and macroeconomics. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat is the Mallya Professor of Women and Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the co-leader for Policies and Inequalities of the Columbia University Population Research Center and a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of the intergenerational transmission of poverty and inequality and has examined the effects of social programs, tax policy, labor market regulation, access to reproductive choice, and macroeconomic conditions. Ananat has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship, the William T. Grant Foundation Fellowship, and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Work-Family Research. In 2010, she served as senior economist for Labor, Education, and Welfare at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Ananat graduated from Williams College summa cum laude in mathematics and political economy, received her Master of Public Policy from the Ford School at the University of Michigan, and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hilary Hoynes
Hilary Hoynes is a former member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Steering Committee, a professor of economics and public policy, and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also co-directs the Berkeley Opportunity Lab. Her research focuses on poverty, inequality, food and nutrition programs, and the impacts of government tax and transfer programs on low-income families. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. She currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years. Previously, she was a member of the Federal Commission on Evidence-Based Policy Making. Hoynes received her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree in economics and mathematics from Colby College.
Ingrid Haegele
Ingrid Haegele is an assistant professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research studies the role of firms in the labor market. Currently, she collaborates with large companies to understand how organizational design affects labor market outcomes and long-term inequality. She received her B.S. in international economics from the University of Tübingen, her M.S. in economics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Simcha Barkai
Simcha Barkai is an assistant professor of finance at Boston College and a junior fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. His research interests are centered on competition between firms in the U.S. economy, its impact on wages, investment, and corporate valuations, as well as the political economy of government competition policy. He received a Ph.D. in financial economics from the University of Chicago and graduated from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in mathematics.
David Weil
David Weil is a professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Prior to that, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and was the first Senate-confirmed head of that agency in a decade. He led the Wage and Hour Division from 2014 to January 2017. Weil is an internationally recognized expert in employment and labor market policy, regulation, transparency policy and digital empowerment, and the impacts of supply-chain and industry restructuring on employment and work outcomes and business performance. Weil has written five books, including The Fissured Workplace (Harvard University Press), and published more than 100 articles. Weil received his B.S. at Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. in public policy at Harvard University.