Viren de Jeu is a senior at the University of Chicago Laboratory High School. He is interested in the intersection of mathematics, economics, and public policy. During the 2025–2026 school year, he further developed these interests by taking a year of undergraduate economics courses at the University of Chicago. Viren founded his high school’s Innovators Club, where he has inspired students by organizing school-wide guest speaker events. Featured speakers have included Lori Lightfoot and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita.

Haihan Tian is a Senior Research Analyst at the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on labor economics, human capital formation, and early childhood development. He works with Professor James J. Heckman on developing learning models and decomposing treatment effects of early childhood intervention programs using data from the China REACH project. He also coauthored papers with Professor James J.

Joaquin Galeno Ghio is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research lies in the intersection of macroeconomics, health, and inequality, with a focus on health measurement. He studies how mental and physical health evolve throughout the life cycle and how these two types of health shocks impact individuals' savings decisions during their lives. 
 

Johanna Torres Chain is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, household finance, and public policy, with particular emphasis on Social Security and savings. She studies how informal and spousal caregiving shape households’ saving behavior and demand for formal care, with attention to differences across racial, gender, and ethnic groups.

Francisco Bullano is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, public economics, and health, with a focus on health insurance markets. He studies how Medicaid expansions for children and pregnant women have influenced household insurance decisions, reshaped private coverage, and contributed to long-run trends in access to care. His work highlights how policies directed at specific family members can spill over to affect entire households.

Jorge O. Moreno has worked in the public, private, and academic sectors both nationally and internationally, where he has received multiple awards for his research and professional achievements.

Abdoulaye Ndiaye is an Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University, Stern School of Business. He conducts research in macroeconomics, public finance, development, and political economy.

Tamara McGavock is a labor and development economist. She is an Associate Professor at Grinnell College and an Invited Researcher with J-PAL. She does both experimental and quasi-experimental work on intra-household allocation and traditional social norms around gender and caretaking.

Giulia La Mattina is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of South Florida and a Research Fellow at IZA. Her fields of research are development economics and labor economics. Her current research interests are in the economics of the family and gender. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University, and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from Bocconi University.

David Mitchell serves as the Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at Ball State University and the director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy. Before starting at Ball State University, he taught at the University of Central Arkansas, St. Mary’s College of California, and the University of South Alabama. I was a visiting scholar in the finance department at National Dong Hua University in Taiwan from 2017-2018.