Ezra Oberfield is an associate professor of economics at Princeton University. His research interests lie in the areas of macroeconomics, firm dynamics, and growth. Oberfield formerly was an economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a CESifo research network affiliate. Oberfield received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
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Eric Chyn
Eric Chyn is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His primary research fields are labor, urban and public economics. In his recent work, he studied the effects of government programs and policies on children. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Enghin Atalay
Enghin Atalay is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include business cycle fluctuations, productivity, firm organization, and economic networks.
Emily Wiemers
Emily Wiemers is an associate professor of public administration and international affairs, a faculty associate at the Aging Studies Institute, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. Her work examines economic well-being and intergenerational ties across the life course. Recent work focuses on changes over time in earnings dynamics for working-age adults and on the impact of health and disability on earnings instability and intergenerational transfers across adult ages. Wiemers holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. in finance from University College Dublin, and a B.A. in economics and history from Brown University.
Elliott Ash
Elliott Ash is Assistant Professor of Law, Economics, and Data Science at ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics, Switzerland. Prior to joining ETH, Elliott was Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Warwick, and before that a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for the study of Democratic Politics. He received a Ph.D. in economics and J.D. from Columbia University, a B.A. in economics, government, and philosophy from University of Texas at Austin, and an LL.M. in international criminal law from University of Amsterdam.
Ellora Derenoncourt
Ellora Derenoncourt is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University and a member of the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Economics. She is also the founder and faculty director for the Program for Research on Inequality at Princeton Economics. She works on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality. Her recent work has focused on the northern backlash against the Great Migration and ensuing declines in black upward mobility and the role of federal minimum wage policy in racial earnings convergence during the Civil Rights Era. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Devesh Raval
Devesh Raval is an economist at the Federal Trade Commission. His fields of interest include Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2011, His MA from the University of Chicago in 2007, and his BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 2005.
Diane Schanzenbach
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University, where she also directs the Institute for Policy Research. She is an economist who studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, including education, health, and income support policies. She has testified before both the Senate and House of Representatives on her research. From 2015–17, Schanzenbach served as director of the Hamilton Project at The Brookings Institution. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Schanzenbach received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Princeton University and her B.A. in economics and religion from Wellesley College.
Derek Allen Neal
Derek Neal is the William C. Norby Professor in Economics, the Committee on Education and the College at the University of Chicago. Much of Nealʼs recent research focuses on the design of incentive and accountability systems for educators. In 2018, he published Information, Incentives, and Education Policy (Harvard University Press). This book employs standard tools from information economics to examine a range of education reform agendas, from assessment-based accountability and centralized school assignments to charter schools and voucher systems. Neal demonstrates where these programs have been successful, where they have failed, and why. Earlier in his career, his research focused on the causes and consequences of measured skill gaps between blacks and whites in the United States. His current work explores how different aspects of criminal justice policy impact black-white inequality in the United States. He is a past president of the Midwest Economics Association, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, and a former editor of the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy.
David Johnson
David S. Johnson is a senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and an adjunct faculty at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Prior, he was a research professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption, and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes. He also worked for many years in the Federal Statistical System, including experience in administrative data linkages. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.