Jimmy Narang

Jimmy Narang is a graduate student in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include economic development, behavioral economics, ethics, and social networks. Narang is an alumni of The Equality of Opportunity Project and previously worked as a research assistant at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, in 2008.

Jeffrey Thompson

Jeffrey P. Thompson is a vice president and economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department, where he is the director of the New England Public Policy Center. Prior to joining the Boston Fed, Thompson was a principal economist at the Federal Reserve Board and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute. He specializes in public and labor economics, household finance, applied microeconomics, income, wealth and consumption inequality, state and local taxes, and regional economics. Thompson earned his Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University.

Jeff Larrimore

Jeff Larrimore is the section chief for the Consumer and Community Research Section at the Federal Reserve Board. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and his B.A. in economics and political science from Davidson College.

Jae Song

Jae Song is an economist with the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review at the Social Security Administration. Song received his Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Albany.

Jacob Hacker

Jacob Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the co-director of the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership at Yale Law School, director of the American Political Economy eXchange at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and co-director of the multi-university Consortium on American Political Economy.He has a Ph.D. from Harvard and a B.A. from Yale.

Iris Marechal

Iris Maréchal was a Fall intern at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth in 2017 and is a French exchange student at the Johns Hopkins University within the Aitchison Fellowship Program.

Greg Leiserson

Greg Leiserson is a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Previously, he was the director of tax policy and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.

Gordon Hanson

Gordon H. Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor of Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. in economics from Occidental College.

Gene Kimmelman

Gene Kimmelman is senior counselor to the associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Brown University and holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Giovanni Peri

Giovanni Peri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis  and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and in the Editorial Board of several Academic Journals in Economics.  He is the Founder and Director of the UC Davis Migration Research Cluster. His Research focuses on the impact of international migrations on labor markets and productivity of the receiving countries and on the determinants of international migrations.