Dean Corbae is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Finance, Investment, and Banking at the Wisconsin School of Business. Corbae has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge University, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Dallas, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Corbae's research in macroeconomics and econometrics has been published in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and others.

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.