Antoine Arnoud is an economist at the International Monetary Fund. His research focuses on the interaction between technology, institutions, and inequality. His recent work analyses how wage bargaining can be affected by technological possibilities to automate occupations and how this mechanism can lead to wage inequality, heterogeneity in the return to experience, and other aspects of the labor market. Antoine also develops computational tools used to combine more accurately data from different sources in order to study consumption, income, and wealth inequality. Arnoud earned an M.S. in economics from the Paris School of Economics, Tsinghua University, China, and Ecole Polytechnique, France, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
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Randy Albelda
Randy Albelda is professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston as well as a senior research fellow at the university’s Center for Social Policy. Albelda has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate’s Taxation Committee and the legislature’s Special Commission on Tax Reform. Her research and teaching covers a broad range of economic policies affecting low-income women and families. In addition to many academic journal articles and policy reports, she is coauthor of the books, Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women’s Work, Women’s Poverty; Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Wage Discrimination; and The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual. Albelda co-led the Bridging the Gaps project bringing together researchers and advocates from nine states and Washington, DC to examine the gaps between basic needs and earnings in light of welfare reform in the 1990s.
Andreas Mueller
Andreas I. Mueller is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT Austin, he was an associate professor at Columbia Business School. Mueller received his doctorate from the IIES, Stockholm University, and was awarded the Arnbergska Prize for his dissertation work by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His research spans a broad spectrum of issues in macroeconomics, labor economics, and monetary economics, and has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Labor Economics, and covered in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Mueller is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics.
Miguel Acosta
Miguel Acosta is an economist in the Trade and Financial Studies section at the Federal Reserve Board System. He is an empirical macroeconomist and is currently working on macro-related questions in monetary, trade, behavioral, and labor economics. He received his B.A. in economics from Stanford University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
Manisha Padi
Manisha Padi is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Padi is formerly a Bigelow Fellow and a National Science Foundation Directorate of Social, Behaviorial and Economic Sciences’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Her research focuses on the law and economics of consumer financial contracts. Her ongoing projects include empirical work estimating the effect of consumer protection law on homeowners and mortgage lenders and the regulation of annuity providers in Chile.
Max Risch
Max Risch is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. His research fields include public finance, labor economics, and development economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, where he previously earned his B.A. in political science and his M.A. in economics. Risch also received an M.P.A. from Columbia.
David S. Pedulla
David Pedulla is a professor of sociology at Harvard University. His research interests include race and gender stratification, labor markets, and economic and organizational sociology. Specifically, his research agenda examines the consequences of nonstandard, contingent, and precarious employment for workers’ social and economic outcomes, as well as the processes leading to race and gender labor market stratification. His research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and other academic journals. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, among other organizations. He received a Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Princeton University.
Devah Pager
Devah Pager was the Peter & Isabel Malkin Professor of Sociology & Public Policy at Harvard University. Pager’s research focused on institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Her work involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage labor market. Her book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration, investigated the racial and economic consequences of large-scale imprisonment for contemporary U.S. labor markets. Other projects examined the longer-term consequences of labor market discrimination for job seekers and employers, self-selection in job search, the organizational bases of discrimination, and the long-term consequences of legal debt. Dr. Pager passed away on November 2, 2018.
Andrei Levchenko
Andrei Levchenko is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of International Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, and IMF Economic Review. Previously, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and has held visiting positions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the University of Zurich. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, mathematics, and Italian from Indiana University in 1999. Levchenko’s current research focuses on the propagation of macroeconomic shocks within and across borders. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Department for International Development, and has appeared in a variety of journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies.
Claire Montialoux
Claire Montialoux is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Montialoux earned her Ph.D. in economics from CREST in Paris, France. Her research interests include topics in labor economics, public finance, and political economy. She studies policies aimed at reducing deep-rooted inequalities in the labor market, with a particular focus on minimum wages and racial earnings gaps.