Robert Manduca is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on urban and regional economic development, asking why some places are more prosperous than others and how the economic conditions in which people live shape their life outcomes. Manduca received his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Harvard University and his master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Qingfang Wang
Qingfang Wang is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. Her research area lies broadly in immigration, labor market, and development. Wang is particularly interested in how place—both work site and residential location—interacts with race, immigration status, and gender in shaping labor market experiences and social-economic well-being. Her work has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, National Science Foundation, HUD, and other agencies. Her recent work includes research on immigrant, ethnic and female entrepreneurship, and transnational migration of the highly skilled, especially in the higher education sector. Wang has a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, an M.S. from the Central University of Finance and Economics, and a B.S. from the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics.
Rebecca Ryan
Rebecca Ryan is an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University.
Peter Ganong
Peter Ganong is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He studies income volatility and policies to mitigate its consequences. In ongoing work, he is studying the origins of mortgage defaults and the best way to design mortgage modifications to prevent foreclosure. He received a B.A. and a Ph.D., both in economics, from Harvard University. He worked at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2010, helped to start Boston’s Citywide Analytics Team from 2014 to 2015, and helped start immigrantdoctors.org.
Philip Cohen
Philip Cohen is a professor of sociology and a demographer at the University of Maryland, College Park. The focus of his research and teaching concern the sociology of families, social demography, and social inequality. He writes about demographic trends, family structure, the division of labor, health disparities, and open science. He holds a B.A. in American culture from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland.
Patrick Kline
Patrick Kline is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Kline joined the department in 2008 as an assistant professor after having been on the faculty at Yale University for a year. He is the 2007 winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research dissertation prize and was chosen as a participant in the 2007 Review of Economic Studies European Tour and the 2008 Frontiers of Econometrics conference in Japan. Kline received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2007 and holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Ford School of Public Policy, along with a bachelor’s degree in political science from Reed College.
Owen Zidar
Owen Zidar is a professor of economics and public affairs in the Princeton University Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School. Zidar is a public finance economist who studies the taxation of firms and top earners, local fiscal policy, and the creation and distribution of economic resources. Before joining Princeton, Zidar worked as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Zidar holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His pre-doctoral studies were at Dartmouth College, where he earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in economics.
Pascal Noel
Pascal Noel is a Neubauer Family assistant professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research focuses on household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, real estate, and behavioral economics. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in economics and in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale College, Yale University.
Nolan McCarty
Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown professor of politics and public affairs and chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He was formerly the associate dean at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political game theory. He is the recipient of the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution and the John M. Olin Fellowship in Political Economy. He has co-authored three books: Political Game Theory (2006, Cambridge University Press with Adam Meirowitz), Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006, MIT Press with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), and Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy (with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal). In 2010, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Nisha Chikhale
Nisha Chikhale is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics with a particular focus on issues related to inequality in the labor market and intergenerational mobility. Her current projects investigate the aggregate consequences of sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as how parental access to credit markets impact their children’s future earnings. She is a graduate student affiliate of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty. Chikhale holds a B.A in economics and a B.A. in French language and literature from the University of Maryland, College Park.