Abdelrahman is a PhD candidate at The University of Toronto. His fields of interest are labor and personnel economics. He is particularly interested in understanding how imperfect competition in labor markets shapes wage inequality across gender. He is also interested in understanding the role firms’ organization structure plays in shaping workers’ labor market outcomes.

Jakob is a fourth-year PhD student at Stockholm University. He is an applied microeconomist with a focus in Labor Economics. In his current research he is, among other things, studying the effects of expected sexual harassment and workplace discrimination on educational choices. Prior to his PhD, he studied Economics at the University of Mannheim and the University of Munich in Germany

Christine is a Norwegian third-year PhD student at Princeton University. Her research interests are in macroeconomics, corporate and public finance. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a full-time research assistant at the Becker Friedman Institute working on projects related to econometrics, labor and corporate finance.

Jui-Lin is a fourth-year PhD student in Economics at Duke University. Before joining the program, he received a master’s degree in Economics from National Taiwan University. His research interest lies in household finance, asset liquidity, and macroeconomics. His current project focuses on how the housing price affects the credit allocation, non-homeowner’s consumption, and consumption inequality.

Danny is a rising fourth-year student in the Economics Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying industrial organization and urban economics. His current research focuses on how land use regulations influence the supply of housing in urban environments. Danny grew up in rural Washington State. Before starting his PhD, he was a Fulbright student at the University of Toronto and later worked as a research analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in Baltimore, Maryland.

Levi is a third-year economics PhD student at the University of California, Irvine. His fields of interest are political economy and economic history. Currently he is working within applied contest theory, examining the mechanisms underlying regulatory capture. Prior to attending UCI, he graduated from SUNY Potsdam with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.

Eserhan is a JSD candidate at the University of Chicago Law School. His current research on subscription contracts seeks to draw insights from marketing scholarship to develop a more comprehensive analysis of the subscription economy. His research interests are in contract law, administrative law, consumer law, and behavioral economics. Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Eserhan earned his bachelor of engineering in systems engineering from National Defense University (’11), his bachelor of laws, valedictorian, from Gazi University (’16), and his master of laws from the University of Chicago (’21).

Sanjana is a PhD candidate in the Managerial Economics and Strategy Program at Kellogg School of Management. Her field of interest is Environmental and Energy Economics. Currently her research looks at distortions in electricity markets in India and its impacts on agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Prior to starting her PhD, she was a management consultant and worked extensively in the Indian Power Sector.

Shan is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Economics at George Mason University. Her current research focuses on theories and experiments in dynamic mechanism Design, and behavioral political models. She did her undergrad at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and earned her master’s degree from Fudan University.

Peter is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at George Mason University and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center’s F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. His main research interests lie in the economics of institutions, public choice theory, and law and economics. His research often seeks to explain institutional change through the lens of new institutional economics. In particular, he is currently investigating the law and economics of Puritan organization and New England witch trials under the guidance of his dissertation advisor, Peter Leeson. Prior to graduate school, Peter earned his B.A. at Kenyon College, where he studied economics, mathematics, and philosophy.

Chieh-Hsuan is a rising third-year Economics PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis. She has a master’s degree in Economics from Pennsylvania State University. Her research primarily focuses on Industrial Organization.

Shahidul is an applied microeconomist. His research interest is in the economics of education and labor economics. As a PhD student at Purdue University, he is studying social and academic environments that shape academic and labor market outcomes.

Rebecca is a PhD student in the Economics department at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her main fields are labor, education, and health economics. She is also the Research Director for the COVID-19 School Data Hub where her research focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 students in the United States

Jihye is a rising fourth-year PhD student in Applied Economics and Management School at Cornell. Her research lies on the intersection of corporate finance and big data. Her secondary interests are organizational economics and development economics. She is originally from the Republic of Korea and prior to joining Cornell, she has received a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and bachelor’s degrees in law and economics from Peking University.

Kiara is a second-year PhD student in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in applying IO topics and game theory to evaluate policies. She is currently working on projects related to abortion regulations and auction platforms. She was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and got her bachelor’s degree in economics and applied statistics from Yonsei University.

Jonas is a first-year Economics PhD student at UC Berkeley. His interests are primarily in machine learning and AI application to macroeconomics, IO, and health. Jonas holds an MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from the University of Warwick, where his primary focus was on econometrics and mathematical economics. Jonas was born in Berlin and grew up in Germany, Canada, and Japan.

Jovin is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He is also a Jean Kinsey; Mary A., and Robert B. Litterman Fellow. Prior to starting at the Applied Economics Graduate Program, Jovin was a Researcher in the Impact Evaluation Lab at the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) and he continues to be associated with it. His primary research fields are agricultural economics and environmental economics with a special focus on micro-econometrics and high-resolution satellite imagery to understand agricultural inputs price shocks and deforestation in developing countries. His secondary research field is education economics focusing on teaching quality in the United States. Jovin’s research has been published in the African Review, African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Journal of Economic Review, and Tanzanian Economic Review. Apart from academics, he is an FC Bayern München fan.

Duan is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Economics, PhD fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economics Science (ICES) at George Mason University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Statistics from University of Minnesota and a Master’s degree in Economics from McGill University. His research interests include Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics and Applied Microeconomics.

Casey is a PhD candidate in economics at Princeton University with research interests in labor economics, public finance, and inequality. Currently, he is working with Washington State’s UI office to better understand the causes and consequences of incomplete take-up. Prior to starting the PhD, he worked as a Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. Casey received his Bachelor’s degree from Amherst College in economics and mathematics.

Prakash is a fourth-year PhD student in the Applied Economics program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He focuses on the intersection of environmental economics, industrial organization, and economic development. His current research focuses on quantifying both privately and socially inefficient deforestation. Using a unique global land use dataset, his work evaluates how carbon pricing, deforestation taxes, and other common first-best policy proposals impact the spatial reallocation of economic activity. Prakash is a graduate of the systems engineering department at Penn, a former Philadelphia Fed research intern, and an avid triathlete in his spare time

Chiara is a third-year PhD student in the Business and Public Policy group at the University of California, Berkeley. Her areas of specialization include labor and industrial organization. She previously earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Economics from Bocconi University.

Esma is a PhD Student at Penn State University. She studies topics in economics of education and spatial economics. Her research focuses on understanding individual decision-making processes in educational settings. Some of her work is on the relationship between time constraints, risk aversion, and gender bias in multiple-choice tests. Currently, she focuses on the spatial determinants of college and major choice. In addition to her research, as a research assistant, she has been working on two urban economics projects, focusing on spatial spillovers from urban renewal policies.

Miika is a PhD student at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University. He obtained a B.Soc.Sc. degree in Economics in 2015 and an M.Soc.Sc. degree in Economics in 2017, both from University of Helsinki. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor and public economics.

Francisco is a third-year PhD student in Economics at UT Austin. His field of interest is applied microeconomics, specifically in education and health. Before starting his PhD, Francisco worked at a development bank in DC in a project on the multidimensionality of school impacts and parental preferences over them. Currently, he is working on a behavioral approach to choices consumers make in the health market. Originally from Lima, Peru, he obtained a BA in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Myera is a second-year PhD student in Economics at Northwestern University. She works on research that lies at the intersection of labor economics and economic history to study the causes and consequences of economic mobility, gender inequality and technological change. Before starting graduate school in 2021, Myera worked at the Princeton Industrial Relations Section. She graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA in Social Sciences in 2019 and received her bachelor’s degree from NYU Abu Dhabi in Economics and Mathematics in 2018.

Sayantan is a second-year Economics PhD student at Purdue University. He is interested in how agent heterogeneity matters for macroeconomics. He holds a degree in financial economics from Madras School of Economics. Prior to joining Purdue, he worked as a decision scientist building boosting models for the credit risk department at American Express. In his free time he loves playing bullet chess.

Austin is a fourth-year PhD student in Economics at the University of Arizona. His research interests are in labor economics and the economics of crime, with a particular focus on the motivations and incentives which shape the discretionary behaviors of law enforcement. He is originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, but he completed his undergraduate at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he studied economics and mathematics.

Hyun Soo is a rising third-year PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis. She did her undergraduate degree at Korea University and master’s at Boston University. Her research interests lie in applied microeconomics in the fields of health and labor economics.

Ruochen is a third-year PhD student at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research interest is in health economics, with a particular interest in the health insurance market and pharmaceutical industries.

Xinhui is a third-year PhD student in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is originally from Beijing, China, and did her undergrad at the University of International Business and Economics. Her research focuses on the intersection of behavioral economics and environmental economics. Currently, she is working on a project studying air pollution and avoidance behavior by using phone location data.

Karthik is a rising third year PhD at Berkeley, interested in three research agendas: 1) technology and innovation in developing countries, 2) trade frictions and economic development, 3) energy markets in developing countries. Before Berkeley, he grew up in Bangalore, India and studied math and economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Liang (Sunny) is a second-year PhD in Economics from UCLA. She has her fields of interests as international economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics. Currently, her work focuses on understanding the impact of technology on labor markets and identifying and estimating the impact of macro policy shocks. Before joining her PhD, she obtained her Bachelor in Economics and Finance from University of Hong Kong and her Master of Arts in Economics from Duke University.

Tatiana is a rising fifth-year PhD student in Finance at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Her primary research interests are in international finance, household finance with a focus on experimental work, and macroeconomics. She is also a PhD Scholar at the Wells Fargo Advisors Corporate Finance and Accounting Research Center at Olin Business School for the 2022-2023 academic year. Before graduate school, Tatiana worked as a financial analyst at Kite Realty Group, a retail-focused real estate investment trust in Indianapolis. She graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in finance and a supplemental major in German language and literature.

Jing is a PhD candidate in economics at Princeton University. His research interests are in empirical microeconomics, particularly in criminal justice, labor economics, and economic history. He studies the social determinants of crime and the distributional effects of the public safety provision. Prior to Princeton, he received his bachelor’s degree in China Center for Economic Research at Peking University.

Alison is an economics PhD student at Northwestern University. She is interested in microeconomic theory, political economy and organizational economics. She is currently working on questions related to relational contract, informal institution and culture-dependent coordination.

Tianyu is a second-year PhD student at the University of Michigan. She is an applied micro economist, with research interests in development, labor, econ history, and political economy. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as a predoctoral research fellow at SIEPR and a research specialist at UChicago, after completing the MAPSS program at UChicago.