Jane Cooley Fruehwirth is an Associate Professor in economics at the University of North Carolina. Prior to this, she was a Reader (associate professor) at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. She also spent several years as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. Her research interests include social economics, economics of education and more recently religiosity and mental health.

Fruehwirth received a B.A. wih High Honors, Magna Cum Laude from The College of William and Mary in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 2006.

Zhong Zhao is Professor of Economics at Renmin University of China and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). His main areas of interest are labor economics, applied microeconometrics, social program evaluation and economy of China. His recent research topics on China include children's health, earnings instability and inequality, rural-urban disparity, comparison of wage evolutions in India and China, and rural-urban migration.

Yuzhe Zhang is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Prior to his appointment at Texas A&M in 2011, he was an assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 2006 to 2011. His expertise lies in mechanism design and macroeconomics. He has published articles in international journals including Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Mathematical Economics.

Zhang received his B.A. in economics from Wuhan University, China, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006.

Junsen Zhang is currently Wei Lun Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research (both theoretical and empirical) has focused on the economics of family behaviour, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers, marital transfers, gender bias, and old-age support (pensions). He also works on family-related macro issues, such as ageing, social security, and economic growth.

Arianna Zanolini is an impact evaluation expert working at the intersection between economics and public health in resource limited settings. She has a specific interest in maternal and child health, particularly early childhood development, and in HIV policies. She is currently based in Zambia, where she has been living since 2012. During her time in Zambia, Dr.

Motohiro Yogo is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is also a Research Associate of the NBER and a Co-Director of the NBER Insurance Working Group. Prior to joining Princeton in 2015, he held research and teaching positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Wharton. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 2004 and an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton in 2000.

Junjian Yi is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Yi focuses on both theoretically and empirically analyzing family behaviors and human capital.

Yi received both M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 and 2011, respectively, supervised by Prof. Junsen Zhang and an M.A. in Economics from Zhejiang University in 2005.

Professor, the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and the National School of Development (NSD), Peking University. He currently serves as the director of CCER and deputy dean of NSD in charge of academic affairs and the editor of the center's house journal China Economic Quarterly. His research interests include economic transition and development in China.

Fang Yang is an assistant professor at the Dept. of Economics, Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on housing, consumption, wealth inequality, social security, and education. She studies individual optimal choices in an environment with uninsurable risk and the effect of policy changes on the aggregate economic outcomes in such an environment.

Yang received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006.