Junjian Yi is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Yi focuses on both theoretically and empirically analyzing family behaviors and human capital.

Yi received both M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 and 2011, respectively, supervised by Prof. Junsen Zhang and an M.A. in Economics from Zhejiang University in 2005.

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.