Rodrigo Pinto is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles. Pinto was a Fulbright Scholar (2004-2009) and a McArthur Fellow. Working with the Nobel Laureate in Economics Dr. James Heckman, he has published a series of papers on the economics of human capital accumulation of early childhood interventions and policy evaluations. His research focuses on modeling, inference, cost-benefit analysis, external validity and treatment effect estimation of social experiments.

Pia Pinger is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Cologne and briq Research Associate. Her main fields of research are education economics, behavioral economics, and applied microeconometrics. The common theme of her research program is human capital and socioeconomic inequalities. She has written papers on educational decision-making, early childhood health, personality and economics, and on the effect of macroeconomic shocks on education and health outcomes.

Rémi Piatek is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He previously worked as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago from 2010 to 2013, in collaboration with James J. Heckman.

Friedhelm Pfeiffer studied economics at the Universities of Freiburg i. Br., Bern (Switzerland) and Mannheim. He is a senior researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and a lecturer at the University of Mannheim, Department of Economics. For his research on the determinants of self-employment and on wage rigidities in the German system of wage determination he received several scientific awards, among others the Wolfgang-Ritter Award.

Stavros Petrou was appointed as Professor of Health Economics by the University of Warwick in September 2010. He works collaboratively across Warwick Medical School with emphasis placed on leading high quality economic evaluations and research alongside large Phase III clinical trials and within health technology appraisal reviews. Prior to his appointment, Stavros Petrou was employed as a health economist by the University of Oxford over a 13 year period from March 1997 to August 2010. From March 1997 to September 2004, he worked solely for the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU).

Krishna Pendakur is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser university. He spent the last 18 years studying statistical and econometric issues relating to the measurement of economic discrimination, inequality and poverty. A group of papers (jointly written with Ravi Pendakur) established that visible minorities and Aboriginal people face great disparity in Canadian labour markets, and that this disparity shows no sign of eroding over time. A more recent group of our papers has shown that Aboriginal people face staggeringly poor labour market outcomes.

Nicola Pavoni recently joined the Bocconi University from the University College London where he was Professor of Economics. His work has been published in the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and the International Economic Review among others. He is Co-Editor of the BE Journal, Macroeconomics. His research interests are Macroeconomic Theory, Economics of Information, Consumption Theory, Labour Economics, and Public Finance.

Parag Pathak is an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT and a Research Associate in the NBER's programs on Education, Public Economics and Industrial Organization. He is also the founding co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design. Pathak received his A.B., S.M. and his Ph.D in 2007 all from Harvard University. Following a stint as a junior fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows, Pathak joined MIT's Department of Economics.

Svetlana Pashchenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She was previously a Lecturer at the University of Surrey and an Assistant Professor at Uppsala Universitet. She is a macroeconomist with an interest in insurance markets and public policy analysis.  Pashchenko is particularly interested in the interactions between private insurance, self-insurance and social insurance. Her recent research focuses on the health insurance market and the market for private annuities in the US.

Albert Park is Chair Professor of Social Science, Professor of Economics, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and the International Growth Centre (DFID/Oxford/LSE). He previously held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and University of Oxford.