Krishna Pendakur is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser university. He spent the last 18 years studying statistical and econometric issues relating to the measurement of economic discrimination, inequality and poverty. A group of papers (jointly written with Ravi Pendakur) established that visible minorities and Aboriginal people face great disparity in Canadian labour markets, and that this disparity shows no sign of eroding over time. A more recent group of our papers has shown that Aboriginal people face staggeringly poor labour market outcomes.

Stefano Mosso is a Quantitative Strategist at Aquatic Capital Management. His current research focuses on issues related to labor economics and econometrics with particular attention to the study of the returns to education, the dynamics of the labor market and the determinants of inequality. He received a Laurea in Political Science from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, a Double Degree in International Political Economy from Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics and a Master in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Michael Keane is Nuffield Professor of Economics at Oxford University. His current research interests include: labor economics, empirical microeconomics, econometrics, consumer choice behavior, and marketing.

Keane received a B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Management. Prior to this, he was a Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research interests include consumer finance. econometrics, and social networks. His current work focuses on assessing the costs and benefits of debtor protection policies and understanding the role that consumer debt plays in the macroeconomy.

Robert Gary-Bobo is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and at the Paris School of Economics 2003-2007; currently Professor of Economics at ENSAE (National School of Statistics, France) and researcher at CREST.



He mainly worked on Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and applications to Public Economics. He recently worked on the Economics of Education, both on theory and applied econometrics.

Christopher Flinn is Professor of Economics at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Moncalieri, Italy), and is an Associate Editor of the International Economic Review, European Economic Review, and Review of Economics of the Household. He is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn), a member of the Scientific Committee of CHILD at the University of Torino, and served as the President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) in 2004.

Steven N. Durlauf is the Steans Professor in Educational Policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, He served as codirector of HCEO and a leader of the Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)  Network until September 2022.