Brian Callaci is the chief economist at the Open Markets Institute. He researches and writes about market structure, antitrust law, and their relationship to worker and employer power. Callaci received his B.A. in economics from Franklin & Marshall College and his M.A. and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Bradley Hardy
Bradley Hardy is an associate professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. His research interests lie within labor economics, with an emphasis on economic instability, intergenerational mobility, poverty policy, and socioeconomic outcomes. His recent work examines trends and sources of income volatility, intergenerational mobility, and neighborhood economic development within the United States, with a focus on socioeconomically disadvantaged families. He also conducts research on the role of anti-poverty transfer programs such as the Supplemental NutritionAssistance Program and the Earned Income Tax Credit for improving economic well-being among low-income individuals and families. Hardy holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky, a master’s of public policy from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in economics from Morehouse College.
Blythe George
Blythe George is a member of the Yurok Tribe of California and an assistant professor at the University of California, Merced. She previously served as a presidential postdoctoral fellow in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on processes of adversity and resilience in tribal communities, with an emphasis on qualitative methodologies and database creation and management. Blythe received a B.A. in sociology from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in sociology from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Sociology & Social Policy Joint Degree program.
Barbara Kiviat
Barbara Kiviat is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. She is an economic sociologist who studies how moral beliefs and other cultural understandings shape markets and justify the inequalities they produce. She is particularly interested in how normative ideas influence the pricing and allocation of socially important resources, such as insurance, credit, and jobs. Her current project considers how these dynamics play out when corporations use massive amounts of personal data to decide what to offer to individual consumers. Kiviat’s work has been published in American Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Socius, and Social Service Review. She has a Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Harvard University and an M.P.A. from New York University, an M.A. in journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. in the writing seminars from Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she was a staff writer at Time magazine.
Armin Rick
Armin Rick is an assistant professor of economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He specializes in applied microeconomic theory with a focus on the economics of information and communication. His recent research centers on the role of communication error and transparency of economic actions in situations with asymmetric information. His work shows that appropriately limiting transparency can often improve the economic efficiency of communication mechanisms, in particular with respect to the equilibrium trade-off between information transmission and communication costs. He is similarly interested in labor market inequality and the economics of crime and human capital accumulation. In recent work, he and his collaborators assess the effect of the boom in U.S. prison populations on measures of labor market inequality and the extent to which this boom can be attributed to changes in the punitiveness of the criminal justice system. Rick holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, as well as master’s degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and the University of Mannheim in Germany.
Atif Mian
Atif Mian is a member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Steering Committee, the John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 professor of economics, public policy, and finance at Princeton University, and director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to joining Princeton in 2012, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His current work focuses on the deeper implications of rising inequality for the macroeconomy—including growth, financial markets, monetary policy and fiscal policy. His 2014 book, House of Debt, with Amir Sufi builds upon powerful new data to describe how debt precipitated the Great Recession. The book explains why debt continues to threaten the global economy and what needs to be done to fix the financial system. House of Debt is critically acclaimed by the New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Atlantic, among others. Mian’s research has appeared in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. Mian holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with computer science and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Arjun Jayadev
Arjun is a professor of economics at the School of Liberal Studies at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India. He was previously an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also closely involved with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Arindrajit Dube
Arindrajit Dube is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. Dube’s work focuses on labor economics, health economics, public finance, and political economy. Some of his current areas of research include minimum wage policies, effects of unions, monopsony in the labor market, firm wage policies, and fairness concerns at the workplace. Dube received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and Master of Arts in development policy from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Anna Godoy
Anna Godøy is an associate professor II in the Department of Health Management and Health Economics at the University of Oslo, as well as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Her main research interests are health and labor economics. Godøy received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oslo.
Ariel Kalil
Ariel Kalil is the Daniel Levin Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. At Harris, she directs the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy and co-directs the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab. She also holds appointments as an adjunct professor in the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway, and in the School of Business Administration at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is a developmental psychologist who studies economic conditions, parenting, and child development. Her current research examines the historical evolution of income-based gaps in parenting behavior and children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills. In addition, at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab, she is leading a variety of field experiments designed to strengthen parental engagement and child development in low-income families using tools drawn from behavioral economics and neuroscience.
Kalil received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Michigan. Before joining the Harris faculty in 1999, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center. Kalil has received the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Award, the Changing Faces of America’s Children Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Child Development, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and in 2003, she was the first-ever recipient of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Award for Early Research Contributions. Her current work is funded by NIH and by a number of private foundations.