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.
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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, and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. 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.
Randall Akee
Randall Akee is a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President. He is currently on leave from his position as an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, he served as a David M. Rubenstein fellow in economic studies at The Brookings Institution. Akee is an applied microeconomist and has worked in the areas of labor economics, economic development, and migration. He served on the National Advisory Council on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations at the U.S. Census Bureau. Akee is a research fellow at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He completed his doctorate at Harvard University in June 2006.
Florian Ederer
Florian Ederer is an associate professor of economics at the Yale University School of Management and a research staff member at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. Ederer’s research, which has been widely published in leading journals, is in the areas of organizational economics, innovation, and industrial organization. It focuses on the incentive design in organizations, how it shapes innovation, and how it is, in turn, affected by social interactions and more realistic assumptions about the motives of principals and agents. Some of his recent work explores the impact of common ownership on managerial compensation and the existence and pervasiveness of “killer acquisitions” that prevent startups from challenging dominant market incumbents. In his academic work, he draws on a broad set of tools often combining theoretical models, experimental methods, and empirical analysis. Prior to joining the Yale School of Management, Ederer was a faculty member of the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management. He earned his doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master’s and undergraduate degrees from the University of Oxford.
Peter Norlander
Peter Norlander is an associate professor of management at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. Norlander’s research interests include alternative work arrangements such as outsourcing, remote work, and gig work, labor market power, and the evolution of labor and management practices. He holds a B.S. in industrial and labor relations from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Ph.D. in management and organizations from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.