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.
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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.
Nathaniel Hendren
Nathaniel Hendren is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a founding co-director of the Equality of Opportunity Project. His work is motivated by the question: Do markets provide opportunity? He uses a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis to document the extent of equality of opportunity, understand when and why markets may fail to provide it, quantify the impact of these market failures, and provide tools to normatively evaluate potential policy solutions. He earned a B.S. in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Neil Mehrotra
Neil Mehrotra is the deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics at the U.S. Treasury Department in the Office of Economic Policy. Previously, he was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2019 to 2021, an assistant professor at Brown University from 2013 to 2019, and a visiting research scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2016 to 2017. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, and has received press coverage from various news outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, and Business Insider. Mehrotra received his B.A. from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University—all in economics.
Nathan Jensen
Nathan Jensen (2002, Yale Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas-Austin. He was previously an associate professor in the Department of International Business at George Washington University (2014–2016) and associate professor in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2002–2014). He teaches courses and conducts research on government economic development strategies, firm nonmarket strategies and business-government relations, the politics of oil and natural resources, political risk in emerging markets, trade policy, and international institutions. Not all at once.
He was previously an associate professor in the Department of International Business at George Washington University (2014-2016) and associate professor in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2002-2014).
He teaches courses and conducts research on government economic development strategies, firm non-market strategies and business-government relations, the politics of oil and natural resources, political risk in emerging markets, trade policy, and international institutions. Not all at once.