J.W. Mason is an assistant professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. Previously, he taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is also a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was formerly the policy director for the New York State Working Families Party.
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Joya Misra
Joya Misra is a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research and teaching primarily focus on social inequality, including inequalities by gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, parenthood status, and educational level. Her work falls into the subfields of political sociology, economic sociology, public policy, work and labor, family, race/gender/class, comparative historical sociology, and welfare states. Her work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Gender & Society, Social Forces, Social Problems, and numerous other professional journals and edited volumes. Misra edited Gender & Society from 2011-2015. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from Emory University and her B.A. in religion from Centenary College.
Justine Hastings
Justine Hastings is VP and chief of people-centered science for Amazon People eXperience and Technology (formerly Human Resources) and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Prior, she was a professor of economics at Brown University. She has served as an expert economist for state and federal agencies in matters related to antitrust, energy, and environmental regulation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in agriculture and resource economics from the University of California, Davis; and she holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
JooHee Han
JooHee Han is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Olso. His is research/teaching interests include social stratification and mobility, the labor market, work and occupation, crime and mass incarceration, and international migration, among other topics. He holds a B.A. and M.S. in sociology from Yonsei University and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
John Voorheis
John Voorheis is a principal economist in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. His research focuses on using administrative records to improve survey measurement and to answer questions at the intersection of environmental, labor, and public economics. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review and Science. Voorheis received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon.
John Coglianese
John Coglianese in a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. His research focuses on the macroeconomics of labor markets, including such topics as the macro effects of unemployment insurance, declining labor force participation among prime-age men, and seasonal work in the U.S. He received his B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Economy & Government from Harvard University.
Joan Williams
Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She is also chair of the UC Hastings Foundation. Williams is one of the 10 most cited scholars in her field. She has authored 11 books, over 90 academic articles, and her work has been covered in publications from Oprah Magazine to The Atlantic. Her awards include the Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award (2014), the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Scholar Award (2012), and the ABA’s Margaret Brent Women Award for Lawyers of Achievement (2006). Williams received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in history from Yale University.
Jialan Wang
Jialan Wang is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Illinois Geis College of Business. Wang received her Ph.D. in financial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 and her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2003.
Jess Benhabib
Jess Benhabib is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy at New York University. His research interests include macroeconomics and economic growth. He is a fellow of the Econometrics Society and has been published in the Journal of Economic Growth and Journal of Economic Theory, among other publications. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also professor of economics. He is the co-director of the California Policy Lab, which he co-founded (with Till von Wachter) in 2017, and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He previously served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and as senior economist with the White House Council of Economic Advisers. From 2015 to 2020, he served as director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley. Rothstein’s research examines education policy, tax and transfer policy, and the labor market. His recent work includes studies of school finance, intergenerational economic mobility, take-up of safety net benefits, and regional and industry wage differentials. His work has been published in leading journals in economics, public policy, education, and law. He has served as an expert witness in several cases regarding teacher evaluation and school finance.
Rothstein is a member of the editorial boards of Industrial Relations, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Education Finance and Policy, and the National Education Policy Center, and of the executive board of the Society of Labor Economists. He was named the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar by the Labor and Employment Relations Association in 2011. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the National Education Policy Center, the CESifo Research Network, the IZA, and the Learning Policy Institute. He received a Ph.D. in economics and a Master of Public Policy, both from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. from Harvard University.