Nicholas Wright

Nicholas A. Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Florida International University. His research utilizes experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study policy-relevant issues in education, public health, and development economics. His research agenda can be divided into three different strands (i) evaluating educational programs in developing countries, (ii) examining how light-touched interventions can be leveraged to improve students’ academic outcomes, and (iii) examining the impact of various policies on public health and crime.

Henning Hermes

Henning Hermes is Postdoctoral Researcher and Deputy Director of the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics at the ifo Institute Munich. His research focuses on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, covering topics in Labor, Education, and Inequality. In one of his current lines of research, he wants to better understand inequality in access to early childcare and the consequences for child development, parental labor market participation, and gender equality.

Xincheng Qiu


Xincheng Qiu in an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, in May 2023.

Paul Hufe

Paul Hufe is an economist working at the intersection of public, labor, and normative economics.

His research agenda is driven by two main objectives. First, he aims to strengthen the methodological toolkit to quantify the extent of inequality of opportunity in current societies. Second, he studies which circumstantial life factors cause the unequal distribution of life chances.

Anson Zhou

Anson Zhou is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Hong Kong. His research fields are macroeconomics and labor economics, with particular interests in human capital accumulation, fertility, and social mobility.

Anson earned his BEcon&Fin from the University of Hong Kong, an M.A. in Economics from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ian Fillmore

Ian Fillmore is an Assistant Professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is interested in the intersection of industrial organization, labor economics, and econometrics. His current areas of research include the economics of education and education markets, the effects of technological change on workers, and optimal taxation.

J. Carter Braxton

J. Carter Braxton is an assistant professor in economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Carter completed his PhD in economics at the University of Minnesota, and has an undergraduate degree in economics from Davidson College. His research interests are in macroeconomics, labor economics, and consumer finance.

Martín García-Vázquez

Martín García-Vázquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis.  His research lies in Labor Economics broadly defined. His current research topics include Health Economics, Child Development, and the Econometrics of structural models.

He holds a BA in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a M.Sc. in Economics and Finance from CEMFI and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. 

Emily Nix

Emily Nix is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. Professor Nix received her PhD at Yale, and before joining USC worked at University College London. She has also previously served as a consultant to the World Bank and is an external researcher for the VATT Institute for Economic Research in Helsinki, Finland.

Itai Sher

Itai Sher is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research is at the intersection of ethics and economics. His primary focus is on incorporating broader ethical criteria into formal economic evaluation. Sher’s recent work has included topics such as the normative assessment of tax policy, freedom of choice, voting institutions, and value pluralism in normative economics.

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