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Andreas Fagereng is a professor of finance at BI Norwegian Business School and a senior researcher at Statistics Norway. His research is mainly focused around household finance and macroeconomics. He holds an MS.c. in economics and econometric analysis from the University of Oslo and a Ph.D. in economics from European University Institute.

Shanthi Ramnath is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Ramnath holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

Daphne Chen is the managing director at Vega Economics. She received her B.B.A. in Business Administration from National Taiwan University, her M.A. in applied statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sergio Ocampo is an assistant professor of economics at Western University in London, Ontario. Professor Ocampo received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Katherine Policelli was the External Relations intern at Equitable Growth in the summer of 2019.

Cesar Perez is a research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. Prior to joining PPIC, Cesar was a research assistant at the San Diego Housing Commission and a Family Economic Security intern at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California, San Diego and a BA in economics from University of California, Los Angeles.

Emma Liebman is pursuing an M.P.H. at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Yale University in 2017. She currently works at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she focuses on opioid overdose prevention and control. Beyond substance use, her interests include criminal justice and family and medical leave.

Ayşegül Şahin is the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Şahin received her bachelor’s and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and her M.A and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.

Benjamin Pugsley is the Robert and Irene Bozzone Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a B.A. in economics from Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.