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.
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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.
Ann Huff Stevens
Ann Huff Stevens is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and David Bruton Jr. Regents Chair in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was the deputy director of the Center for Poverty Research and professor of economics at UC Davis. Her current work examines returns to career and technical education programs, EITC eligibility and deep poverty, and aspects of rising male non-employment. Stevens previously served on the faculty at Rutgers and Yale Universities and is a faculty research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. At UC Davis, Stevens has served as chair of the Department of Economics and interim dean of the Graduate School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has served as a principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.
Jonathon Hazell
Jonathon Hazell is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics. He works on applied macroeconomics, with a focus on labor markets. Previously, he was a post-doc in the Department of Economics at Princeton University, jointly at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance and the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies. He holds an M.A. from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in economics.
Tanya Byker
Tanya Byker is an associate professor of economics at Middlebury College. Her research focuses on the interrelated choices individuals make about education, work, and parenthood. She has studied how birth-related career interruptions in the United States vary by mother’s education, and the ways that parental leave laws impact labor supply decisions. In a developing country context, she has studied how access to family planning impacts fertility and longer-term outcomes such as schooling and employment in Peru and South Africa. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2014 and her B.A. with honors in economics and philosophy from Swarthmore College.
Martha Bailey
Martha Bailey is a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bailey’s research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography, and health in the United States within the long-run perspective of economic history. Her work has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women’s childbearing, career decisions, and compensation, and the short- and long-term effects of Great Society programs, including a co-edited book titled Legacies of the War on Poverty. Her research has won the IZA Prize for the Best Young Labor Economist, the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in the Journal of Economic History, and the CESifo Distinguished Research Affiliate Award for Best Paper by an Economist under 35 years of age. Bailey also has won several college-level awards for outstanding teaching, including most recently the 2017 John Dewey Teaching Award, and currently serves as an editor at the Journal of Labor Economics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and the American Economic Review. Bailey earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University and her B.A. in economics and German from Agnes Scott College.
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her B.A. in economics from the University of Los Andes in Colombia, her M.A. from the Paris School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of public, labor, and development economics.
C. Matthew Snipp
C. Matthew Snipp is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. He is also the director for the Institute for Research in the Social Science’s Secure Data Center and formerly directed Stanford’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. His current research and writing deals with the methodology of racial measurement and changes in the social and economic well-being of American ethnic minorities. For nearly 10 years, he served as an appointed member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee. He also has been involved with several advisory working groups evaluating the 2000 census and three National Academy of Science panels focused on the 2010 and 2020 censuses. He also has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics, as well as an elected member of the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research’s Council. Snipp holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jasmine Hill
Jasmine Hill is an assistant professor of public policy and sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a sociologist whose scholarship focuses on racial inequality and social mobility for Black Americans. Her current work explores the mechanisms that lift communities of color out of poverty and the ramifications of upward mobility for Black families. Because of her expertise on matters related to race, inequality, and the labor market, Hill is regularly called to design and evaluate anti-racism initiatives with organizations like the Annenberg Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, University of California Students Association, and numerous corporate partners like Soylent, Dollar Shave Club, and PocketWatch. She holds a B.A. in communication studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.