Todd Stinebrickner is a labor economist with a specialization in the area of education. He is the director of the Berea Panel Study. This longitudinal study of students from low income backgrounds was initiated with the aim of understanding how important decisions are made during college and during the early portion of individuals' post-college lives.

Stinebrickner received a B.S. in Mathematics (Summa cum laude) from St. Bonaventure University in 1992, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1993 and 1996 respectively.

Stefanie Stantcheva is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and will begin an appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Department of Economics in July 2016. She was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows 2014-2016.

C. Katharina Spies is a professor for educational and family economics at the Free University in Berlin and the acting head of the department for "educational economics" at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She is part of the Research Group of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin. Katharina is a member of several advisory boards on the federal and state level. Her main research interest is in the field of early childhood research.

Michelle Sovinsky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, a research fellow of the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR), an associate of the University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute, and a research fellow of the Economics Network for Competition and Regulation. 

Lones Smith, was an assistant and associate professor at MIT from 1991-1998, an associate and full professor at Michigan from 1998-1010, and has since been a full professor at Wisconsin. He was on the Review of Economic Studies Tour in 1991, and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation since 1995. His research contributions to economics to date lie in three areas. In search and matching theory, he has discovered the conditions for sorting of individuals into matches, given search or information frictions.

James P. Smith holds the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation. He is currently principal investigator for the New Immigrant Survey, a cost-effective survey that yields adequate sample size of the foreign-born, has known sampling properties, permits longitudinal analyses, and can answer policy questions of particular relevance to immigration.

Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) since 2008.

Dan Silverman is the Rondthaler Professor of Economics at Arizona State University. His research is centered on topics in public economics and includes work on economic decision-making quality, and psychological models of intertemporal choice. Silverman's recent work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Public Economics. His study of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market received the 2009 iHEA Arrow award for the best paper in health economics.

Yongseok Shin is an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and is also a research fellow and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Shin received a B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2004.

Ananth Seshadri is a Professor and chair of the Economics Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in macroeconomics and public finance. He has written on the causes and consequences of demographic change and the effects of technological change in accounting for various demographic patterns. His research has appeared in leading economics journals, including The American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006.