Florian Hoffmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in the determinants of life-cycle career dynamics, earnings dynamics, dynamic discrete choice models of human capital formation, estimation of equilibrium search models, and the importance of student-instructor interactions for academic achievement on the post-secondary education level.
Randi Hjalmarsson is currently Professor at the Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden, as well as a part-time Professor at the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, University of London. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on empirical questions related to the economics of crime.
James J. Heckman has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies for addressing those problems. His research recognizes the diversity among people in skills, family origins, peers, and preferences as well as the diversity of institutions and regulations and the consequences of this diversity for analyzing and addressing social and economic problems.
John William Hatfield is an Associate Professor in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies market design--an engineering-oriented field of economic theory that considers how the design of the rules and regulations of a market affects the functioning and outcomes of that market. In particular, he studies matching theory, a field of economics that studies markets in which agents have explicit preferences over whom they buy from and sell to, not just over the underlying goods bought and sold.
Colm Harmon is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney since 2012. Prior to Sydney he was Professor at University College Dublin (UCD) and Director of the UCD Geary Institute. He has held visiting appointments at the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, the Australian National University, University College London and the University of Warwick.
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has been a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues, and his work on efficiency, resource usage, and economic outcomes of schools has frequently entered into the design of both national and international educational policy. His research spans such diverse areas as the impacts of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, and class size reduction on achievement and the role of cognitive skills in international growth and development.
Lars Peter Hansen, an internationally known leader in economic dynamics, is the founding director of the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. Hansen has been one of the forces behind the development of the Institute. He served as chairman of the faculty steering committee that recommended MFI’s creation and gave it scholarly direction.
Nezih Guner is professor at CEMFI (Madrid). He is also a Research Fellow with Institute for Study of Labor (IZA) and a Research A liate with Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He the editor of the Journal of Spanish Economic Association (SERIEs). In 2010, Nezih Guner was awarded an European Research Council Starting Grant.
Guner received a B.A. in Economics and Sociology and an M.A. in Economics from Bogazici Universitesi in 1992 and 1994 respectively, and an M.A. and Ph.D. both in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
Carol Graham is Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at Brookings, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Gallup Senior Scientist. She served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on wellbeing metrics in 2012-13, received Pioneer Awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2017, 2021), and a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies (2018). She has served as a Vice President at Brookings, as Special Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank, Visiting Fellow at the World Bank, and consultant to the IMF.
Bryan Graham is a Professor at University of California, Berkeley. After completing his Ph.D., he joined the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor. He returned to Berkeley as an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Fall of 2011 after spending two years in the Department of Economics at New York University. Professor Graham studies the econometrics of social interactions and networks, with a special interest in measuring the effects of stratification on inequality. This work is reviewed in his Handbook of Social Economics chapter.
