Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at The New School. He is also the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. Prior, he was the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. Hamilton is a pioneer and internationally recognized scholar whose work fuses social science methods to examine the causes, consequences, and remedies of racial, gender, ethnic, tribal, and nativity inequality in education, economic, and health outcomes. This work involves crafting and implementing innovative routes and policies that break down social hierarchy, empower people, and move society toward greater equity, inclusion, and civic participation. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on socioeconomic stratification in education, marriage, wealth, homeownership, health (including mental health), and labor market outcomes. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The American Prospect, the Christian Science Monitor, Dissent Magazine, and The Huffington Post.
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Daniel Schneider
Daniel Schneider is a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was previously a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral scholar in health policy research at UC-Berkeley and UC-San Francisco. His research interests are focused on social demography, inequality, and the family. He has written on class inequality in parenting, the role of economic resources in marriage, divorce, and fertility, the effects of the Great Recession, and the scope of household financial fragility. As co-director of The Shift Project at the Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, his current research focuses on how precarious and unpredictable work schedules affects household economic security and worker and family health and wellbeing. He completed his B.A. in public policy at Brown University in 2003 and earned his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Princeton University in 2012.
Daniel Tannenbaum
Daniel Tannenbaum is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests are labor and public economics. Prior to his position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2014, and received a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Columbia University.
Daniel Carpenter
Daniel Carpenter, who directs the social sciences program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Stud, is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He combines theoretical, historical, statistical, and mathematical analyses to examine the development of political institutions, particularly in the United States, focusing on public bureaucracies and government regulation—particularly the regulation of health and financial products. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and his A.B. in honors government from Georgetown University.
Christopher Ruhm
Christopher J. Ruhm is professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia. He previously held faculty positions at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Boston University. In 1996–1997, he served as senior economist on President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers with main responsibilities in the areas of health policy and aging. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, or IZA, in Bonn, Germany. Ruhm’s recent research has focused on the role of government policies in helping parents with young children balance the competing needs of work and family life and on examining how various aspects of health are produced. Ruhm is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics and Southern Economic Journal, on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Health Economics, Economics Letters, and the Journal of Labor Research, on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Health Economists, a Steering Committee member of the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group, and is a past president of the Southern Economic Association. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of California, Berkeley.
Christopher Wimer
Christopher Wimer is co-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work. He is also the project director on the Robin Hood Poverty Tracker, which measures poverty in New York City. Wimer conducts research on the measurement of poverty, as well as historical trends in poverty and the impacts of social policies on the poverty rate. He focuses on how families cope with poverty and economic insecurity, with a particular focus on how families manage food insecurity and other forms of material hardship. His work pays particular attention to the role of government policies and programs and their potential impacts on the well-being of low-income families and children. His work has been featured in leading scientific journals including Demography, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Service Review, Social Science Research, Criminology, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Wimer received his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Harvard University.
Carlos Olmedo
Carlos Olmedo earned his Ph.D. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focused on various dimensions of low-income housing informality, including housing and health conditions, self-help strategies, title regularization, developer foreclosure practices, and fuel poverty. Olmedo received a B.BA. in international business from UT Austin and an M.S. in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso, and was previously associate director for the Institute for Policy and Economic Development at UT El Paso.
Bradley Setzler
Bradley Setzler is an assistant professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral fellow in economics at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. His primary field of research is labor economics. He focuses on the sources of income risk to workers and the protection provided to their families by social insurance. He received his M.A. in economics from University of Chicago and his B.S. in mathematics and philosophy from University of South Carolina.
Brian Callaci
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.
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.