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Réka Juhász is an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia. She holds an M.A. in economics in the Corvinus University of Budapest Rajk László College for Advanced Studies, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D in economics from the London School of Economics.

Ekaterina Volkova is a senior lecturer at the Department of Finance, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne. She holds an M.S. in mathematics from Moscow State University, an M.A. in economics from New Economic School, and a Ph.D. from SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.

Jessica Jeffers is an associate professor of finance at HEC Paris. She holds a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Tania Babina is an assistant professor of business at Columbia Business School and a faculty research fellow at the NBER. She holds a B.A. in economics from the National Technical University KhPI, Ukraine, an M.Sc. in finance from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Arpit Gupta is an associate professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in finance and economics from the Columbia Business School.

Sabrina Howell is an associate professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. She holds a B.A. in economics and east Asian studies from Yale University and her Ph.D. in political economy and government, economics track from Harvard University.

Jesus Torres is an incoming master’s student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a 2023 American Economic Association summer fellow at Equitable Growth. He holds a B.S in economics from Texas A&M University.

Sullivan Anderson is a student at North Carolina A&T State University and a 2023 American Economic Association summer scholar at Equitable Growth. She is pursuing her B.A. in economics, with an intended graduation date of May 2024.

Joshua Graff Zivin is the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at University of California, San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Department of Economics. Graff Zivin received B.A. in economics and psychology from Rutgers University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in agricultural & resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley.