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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
James Ziliak
James P. Ziliak holds the Carol Martin Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky, where he is founding director of the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research and founding executive director of the Kentucky Federal Statistical Research Data Center. He previously served as assistant and associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon, and has held visiting positions at The Brookings Institution, Russell Sage Foundation, University College London, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research expertise is in the areas of labor economics, poverty, food insecurity, and tax and transfer policy. He has published widely in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and The Economic Journal, and has edited several volumes. He served as chair of the National Academies of Science Workshop on Research Gaps and Opportunities on the Causes and Consequences of Child Hunger, and as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments. He received B.S. and B.A. degrees in economics and sociology from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University.
Javier Cravino
Javier Cravino is an associate professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on pricing frictions and income inequality in the global economy. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and has been published in leading academic journals, including American Economic Review, American Economic Journal, Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has been a research visitor and a consultant for the Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Christopher Bollinger
Christopher R. Bollinger is a Sturgill Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at Michigan State University and earned both a Master of Science and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bollinger’s research has focused on data quality issues and the impact of survey data quality on estimation of microeconomic models. He has examined both measurement error and item nonresponse. His work on measurement error has been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Econometrics. His investigation on nonresponse has been published in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. Bollinger also has interests in urban economics and labor economics. His work in these areas has been published in journals such as Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, and the Journal of Urban Economics. He has served as both an associate editor and co-editor for the Southern Economic Journal, and an associate editor for the Journal of Econometric Methods. He has also served as the associate director of the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, director of Graduate Studies for the Economics Department, and the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research. He currently serves on the Consensus Forecast Group for the state of Kentucky.