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.
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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.
David Grusky
David Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, professor of sociology, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, and coeditor of Pathways Magazine. His research addresses the changing structure of late-industrial inequality and addresses such topics as the future of extreme inequality in the United States, recent trends in social mobility, the sources of gender inequality, the role of social classes and social closure in reducing opportunity, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring labor market outcomes, and bold new policies for reducing poverty and increasing mobility. He holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.S. and Ph.d. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, all in sociology.
David Howell
David R. Howell is a professor of economics and public policy and directs the doctoral program in public and urban policy at The New School. He is an affiliated member of the New School’s economics department, a faculty research fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School), and a research scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts Amherst). His research focuses on institutions and labor market outcomes.
David Autor
David Autor is the Daniel and Gail Rubenfeld Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scholarship explores the labor market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship just last year—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and his B.A. in psychology from Tufts University.