Anders Björklund has been a Professor of Economics at SOFI, Stockholm University since 1990. His research has focused on labor and family economics and is mainly empirical. Sweden is his main focus of interest, but often in a comparative perspective. In recent years, his main focus has been on intergenerational mobility and the role of family background.
Björklund received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1981.
Alberto Bisin is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He is also a fellow of the NBER, IGIER at Bocconi University, CESS at NYU, CIREQ at the Université de Montreal. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. His main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. He is a co-editor of the Handbook of Social Economics. He is also the founding editor of www.noisefromamerika.org.
Pietro Biroli is starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich. He is interested in the process of health and human capital development in children and adolescents. In particular, his current research explores the interaction between genetics, family investments, and early childhood interventions in explaining the long-term inequality across gender and socioeconomic status. More broadly, he is interested in Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics.
Raquel Bernal is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics and Econometrics in the Economics Department at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her recent research focuses on the determinants of an individual's performance in the labor market and in particular, the determinants of ability at early stages of life.
Samuel Berlinski is Principal Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to joining the Bank in 2010, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at University College London and previously held appointments at Universidad de San Andrés and the London School of Economics. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Luca Benzoni is a Senior Financial Economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Benzoni's research focuses on asset allocation over the life cycle, human capital, the modeling of equity returns, interest rates, and their volatility, and derivatives pricing. Benzoni's research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial Intermediation. Before joining the Chicago Fed in September 2006, Benzoni was an assistant professor in finance at the University of Minnesota.
Daniel Benjamin is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Southern California. He is a behavioral economist doing both theoretical and experimental research.
Clive Belfield is an Associate Professor of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York. He is also Co-director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Associate Editor, Economics of Education Review. His research field is cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of educational interventions. Belfield's most recent book is The Price We Pay: The Economic and Social Costs of Inadequate Education. He has authored numerous articles on the economics of education and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the U.S.
Professor Behrman is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. He also serves as the Economics/Social Science member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) National Advisory Council.
Timothy J. Bartik is a Senior Economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. His research focuses on state and local economic development and local labor markets, and his work spans areas such as evaluating economic development programs; how investment in early childhood programs affects local economies; the benefits of higher education institutions for local economic development; and alternative policies for increasing labor demand for the poor. Among his many books and book chapters, Dr. Bartik's Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?
