Dohun Kim is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Washington University in St.Louis in Economics. He will be a research fellow at Korea Development Institute (KDI) in the coming fall.
His thesis explores the effect of welfare reform and EITC expansion on the human capital formation of single mothers. In general, he is interested in understanding the interaction between welfare and tax policies, and individual's choices and its implication on their future career advancement.
So Yoon Ahn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her primary research interests include family economics, gender economics, labor economics and development economics. She is interested in how households make decisions in different contexts. Her current work focuses on the impacts of cross-border marriages on marriage markets and households. She is also interested in how to reshape gender norms in developing countries.
She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and her B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Yonsei University.
Aislinn Bohren is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies various topics in microeconomics with a focus on information, learning and discrimination. Her research explores questions related to learning under model misspecification, discrimination with inaccurate beliefs, information aggregation, moral hazard and the econometrics of randomized experiments. The work on discrimination has both theoretical and empirical components, and builds on her research on learning under model misspecification.
Xiaoyu Xia a Senior Lecturer in Department of Economics at the University of Essex. Before joining Essex, she worked at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. Her research fields are labor economics and behavioral economics. Xia's particular research interests are in youth labor market, education policy and China’s economy. Her recent research projects are focused on the empirical application of matching model in different labor market contexts, which include the taxi market, the marriage market, family living arrangements and college application.
Briana Ballis is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California-Merced. Her research interests are in labor and public economics. Much of her work focuses on studying the determinants of inequality in education. Through her work, she seeks to better understand how individuals’ educational investment decisions are shaped by their environments and backgrounds, and, in particular how policies or programs that impact vulnerable youth can sere to reduce (or exacerbate) pre-existing gaps in later life.
Daniel Millimet is the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor in the Department of Economics at Southern Methodist University and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). His research focuses on the theory and application of microeconometric methods, particularly methods designed to estimate causal effects and deal with measurement error. His applications span a diverse set of topics in labor, environmental, and health economics, as well as international trade.
Gueyon Kim is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a trade economist, with particular interests in studying the labor market consequences of globalization and identifying the key determinants of inequality in a global economy. In her recent work, she uses the Danish employer-employee matched data to examine the impact of offshoring on worker-firm matching and wage inequality.
Mariana Laverde is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston College. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Tobin Center at Yale University. Her research interests are in the economics of education and applied market design. Laverde received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and received her master's degree in economics and a BSc in Mathematics from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Conrad Miller is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Haas School of Business. He is a labor economist with research interests in firm sorting and discrimination.
Zhixiu Yu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University. Yu was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research fellow at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School during 2022-2023.
