Clement Joubert joined the department of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an assistant professor in 2010. His research interests include labor economics, pension economics and family economics. He has studied how pension system rules interact with labor market segmentation and gender inequality using dynamic models of human capital accumulation, occupational choice and savings structurally estimated on longitudinal survey and administrative data.
Matthew Johnson is a Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. In his dissertation Matthew examined how borrowing constraints affect student decisions about college entry and completion. Since joining Mathematica he has worked extensively developing and implementing value added models to measure school and teacher effectiveness at increasing student achievement.
Johnson received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2010.
Raji Jayaraman's research in development and labor economics examines the role of incentives and social preferences on the decisions and performance of students, workers, and consumers. She has examined the effect of incentive pay on worker productivity; school feeding programs on student outcomes; defaults on charitable donations; and immigration on employment. In collaboration with theorists, she has also worked on the identification of peer effects in social interactions models.
Sonia Jaffe is a a research economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at Microsoft. She was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. She does applied theory research in public economics, law and economics, and industrial organization. Jaffe co-organized the HCEO conference "Segregation: Measurement, Causes, and Effects" in 2013. Jaffe spent 2012-2013 visiting the Becker Friedman Institute as a pre-doctoral scholar.
Felicia Ionescu is a Principal Economist in the Research Department at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She joined the Federal Reserve Bank in July 2013, prior to which she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University.
Yannis M. Ioannides holds the Max and Herta Neubauer Chair in Economics at Tufts University. His research interests combine social economics and inequality, macroeconomics, and social interactions and urban structure on a world scale.
Michael Hurd is Senior Principal Researcher at RAND and the Director of the RAND Center for the Study of Aging. He has published papers on a wide range of topics in the economics of aging including the structure of private pensions and Social Security and their effects on retirement decisions, the economic status of the elderly, the determinants of consumption and saving, the use of health care services, the relationship between socioeconomic status and mortality, and the effects of the Great Recession.
Mark Huggett is a Professor in the department of Economics at Georgetown University. He is a macroeconomist. His work has highlighted the importance of idiosyncratic risk for a number of issues including aggregate wealth accumulation, wealth inequality, lifetime inequality and asset pricing. His most recent work offers a human capital interpretation of lifetime inequality.
Huggett received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1991.
V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics at Duke University and a research associate of the Duke Population Research Institute. He specializes in the areas of labor economics, economics of the family, economic demography, applied econometrics, and evaluating the impact of social programs. For his contributions to his field, Professor Hotz has appeared on the list of Who's Who in America since 1993. He was also named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2003.
