Stephen L. Parente is an associate professor of economics at the University of Illinois. Since receiving his Ph.D., he has taught at Georgetown University, Northeastern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois. He is an affiliate of the Center for North and South Research (CRENoS) located at the University of Cagliari. He has served as an assistant editor for Economic Theory and is a member of the Society for Economic Dynamics. Dr. Parente's research primarily seeks to understand why some countries are so much richer than others.

Theodore Papageorgiou is the Felter Family Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College. His main research interests are in labor economics, macroeconomics, as well as the economics of transportation.

In 2022, his article “Geography, Transportation, and Endogenous Trade Costs,” (joint with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi) won the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society, for the best applied (empirical or theoretical) paper published in Econometrica during the previous four years.

Juan Pantano is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Economics of Human Development. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Washington University in St.Louis. His research spans several areas in empirical microeconomics, with particular interest in family economics and the economics of fertility. He is a member of the American Economic Association, The Econometric Society and the Population Association of America.

Miguel Palacios is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. His recent work focuses on the intersection of human capital and asset-pricing, studying the size and riskiness of human capital, and measuring the effect that human capital has on the riskiness of firms. Miguel has also worked on innovative instruments for financing education. On this subject he published Investing in Human Capital (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and co-founded Lumni Inc.

Ricardo Paes de Barros is the Director of Social Policy and Research at the National Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in Brazil. He has been a researcher at IPEA for over 20 years, and is the author of numerous books and scientific publications on labor and human development economics in Brazil, including an award-winning article on The evolution of welfare, poverty and inequality in Brazil over the last three decades: 1960-1990. Dr. Barros holds a Ph.D.

Sonia Oreffice is Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter, and a Co-Editor of the Review of Economics of the Household. Before joining Exeter in 2018, she worked at Clemson University, CCNY-CUNY, Universidad de Alicante, and University of Surrey.

Oreffice received a B.A. in Economics from the Universita' di Venezia (Italy) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2004.

Andy Newman is Professor of Economics at Boston University; previously he held posts at University College London, Columbia and Northwestern. He works in a number of areas of economic theory pertinent to understanding inequality, including economic development, matching theory and organizational economics. He pioneered the use of contract theory in the analysis of income distribution and developed the concept of an inequality trap. He has also studied the interaction between the internal organization of firms and the distributions of wealth and income.

Salvador Navarro is a Professor of Economics and W. Glenn Campbell Fellow at the University of Western Ontario. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Demography and Ecology at Wisconsin. His research focuses on questions of identification in applied microeconomics problems.

Makoto Nakajima is an economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His current research focuses on the role of home equity in retierees' savings decisions, the interaction between capital income taxation and housing taxation, the role of consumer bankruptcy in business cycles, and labor market dynamics over the business cycle. Before joining the Philadelphia Fed, he was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Ismael Mourifié is an assistant at University of Toronto since 2013. Mourifié research interests lies in micro-econometrics, especially in causal inference, and incomplete models and their applications to treatment effects and policy evaluations. He has been recently started working on marriage matching models.

Mourifié is originally from Cote d'Ivoire, he received a B.sc in Mathematics from University Sidi-Ben Abdallah (Morocco) in 2005, an M.sc in Statistics from INSEA (Morocco) in 2008 and a Ph.D in Economics from University of Montréal in 2014.