Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management. Her area of academic research is industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition. Her published articles range widely across industries from magazines, to shipping, to pharmaceuticals to internet retailing, and she has been published in leading economics and legal journals. The focus of her current research is competition in healthcare markets and the economics of antitrust. She served previously as the deputy assistant attorney general for economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped enforce the nation’s antitrust laws. Scott Morton has a B.A. in economics from Yale University and Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ioana Marinescu is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She studies the labor market to craft policies that can enhance employment, productivity, and economic security. Marinescu’s research expertise includes wage determination and monopsony power, antitrust law for the labor market, the universal basic income, Unemployment Insurance, the minimum wage, and employment contracts. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Public Economics. She has testified for policymakers, including before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. Her research has been cited in many media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal.
Emi Nakamura is Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles, and macroeconomic measurement. She is a co-editor of the American Economic Review and has been on the editorial board of several other leading journals in economics. She is on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers and the American Economics Association Committee on National Statistics. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the MIT Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and numerous central banks. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Grant, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.
Jón Steinsson is a Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Steinsson taught at Columbia University from 2008 to 2018 before moving to the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-director for the Monetary Economics program of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His main area of research is empirical macroeconomics. His work has focused on characterizing price rigidity and its macroeconomic consequences, identifying the effects of monetary and fiscal policies, and understanding the effects of forward guidance on the economy, among other topics. He grew up in Iceland and participates actively in the political and economic discourse in that country. He received a B.A. in economics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. Previously he served as director of the Institute of African American Research, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, director of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina.
Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class, and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.
He was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2015-2016), a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2011–2012) at Stanford University, a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989–90), and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). He received the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award in 2012 from the National Economic Association, the organization’s highest honor. He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. He also has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Texas at Austin, Simmons College, and Claremont-McKenna College.
Darity holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Xavier Jaravel is an associate professor at the London School of Economics, where he teaches public economics and how to use micro data and methods to answer macro questions. Jaravel’s research focuses on innovation and productivity, with related work on trade and applied econometrics. He graduated with a B.A. in economics and political science from Sciences-Po Paris and a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.
W. Bentley MacLeod is Sami Mnaymneh professor of economics, professor of international and public affairs, and an affiliated law faculty at Columbia University in New York City. He is a specialist in law, labor, and contract economics, with a focus on how incentives are designed to take into account the complex interplay between reputation effects, market competition, and social norms. Current projects include incentives and school choice, the economics of contract and tort law, the economics of performance pay, and the economics of physician diagnostic choice.
Will Dobbie is a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research studies the causes and consequences of poverty in America to understand how we can give individuals from all backgrounds a better chance of succeeding. His recent work has examined racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, the labor market consequences of bad credit reports, and the long-run effects of charter schools. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Kennedy School, he was a professor at Princeton University. Dobbie is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptorship at Princeton University, the W.E. Upjohn Institute Award, and the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award. He holds a B.A. in economics from Kalamazoo College, an M.A. in economics from University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Trevon Logan, a member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Steering Committee, is ENGIE-Axium Endowed Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the associate dean for administration, College of Arts and Sciences. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University’s Center for Health and Well-Being and at the University of Michigan, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research. He is also an affiliate of the Initiative in Population Research, the Center for Human Resource Research, the Food Innovation Center, and the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Explorations in Economic History, Historical Methods and Demographic Research. Logan specializes in economic history, economic demography, and applied microeconomics. He also does work that intersects with health economics, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics, and sociology. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his master’s degree in demography, as well as a master’s degree and a Ph.D., in economics from University of California, Berkeley.
Vanessa Williamson is a senior fellow in governance studies at Brookings, and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. She studies the politics of redistribution, with a focus on attitudes about taxation. Williamson’s other work examines the political origins of the state Earned Income Tax Credit, the electoral effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and conditions in which voters have supported state tax increases. She is the author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, which was named one of the 10 best political books of the year by The New Yorker. Williamson received her Ph.D. in social policy from Harvard University, an M.A. from New York University’s Institute of French Studies, and a B.A. in French language and literature from NYU.
