Alberto Bisin is a professor of economics at New York University. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Experimental Social Sciences at NYU, IGIER at Bocconi University, CIREQ at the University of Montreal, and IZA at the University of Bonn. He is also a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the Center for the Economics of Human Development of the University of Chicago. He is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994. He is founding editor of Noisefromamerika.org and op-ed contributor for La Repubblica (Italian daily). His main contributions are in the fields of general equilibrium theory, financial economics and macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and social economics. He is a co-editor of the Handbook of Social Economics.
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Alex Bell
Alex Bell is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles’s California Policy Lab. Prior to joining CPL, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he is also a visiting fellow. His research documents unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. Much of his research has brought large-scale administrative datasets to bear on these topics. Another line of applied labor market research he studies is at the intersection of inequality of opportunity and innovation. Bell previously was a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality, and the NBER Health and Aging Research Program. Prior to graduate school, Bell was a predoctoral fellow for the Equality of Opportunity Project. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors in computer science and economics from Brown University.
Adriana Kugler
Adriana Kugler is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Obama administration between 2011 and 2013, where she worked actively on developing policies and proposals on Unemployment Insurance, training programs, retirement benefits, overtime pay and minimum wages, immigration, disability insurance, and occupational safety regulations. Prior to Georgetown, she was full and associate professor in the Economics Departments at the University of Houston and University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her research interests include labor markets and policy evaluation in developed and developing countries. Kugler earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and her joint B.A. in economics and political science from McGill University.
Adrien Auclert
Adrien Auclert is an assistant professor of economics at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford’s faculty, he was an International Economics Section fellow in the Department of Economics at Princeton University. He also currently serves as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on inequality, consumption, monetary and fiscal policy, and international economics. His recent work explores the redistributive effects of monetary policy and the role of inequality in affecting the macroeconomy. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his M.Sc. in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics.
Shariq Mohammed
A.R. Shariq Mohammed is an assistant professor of economics at Northeastern University. Prior, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, where he was associated with the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database Project. He is an economist with interests in labor economics, economic history, and development economics, with a particular focus on intergenerational mobility and racial inequality. His ongoing research uses supervised machine learning techniques to link large-scale administrative datasets with historical records from decennial census. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Arizona.
Abigail Wozniak
Abigail Wozniak is a labor economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, where she serves as director of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute. Her research has examined migration between states and cities, as well as employer compensation and screening policies. Wozniak is currently a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. She serves as co-editor of the journal Economic Inquiry. From 2014–2015, she served as senior economist to the White House Council of Economic Advisers, working on labor economics issues. She was a visiting fellow at Princeton University in 2008–09. Prior to coming to Minneapolis, she was an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. She is a graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D.) and the University of Chicago (A.B.). She is a former associate economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets.