Fang Yang is an assistant professor at the Dept. of Economics, Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on housing, consumption, wealth inequality, social security, and education. She studies individual optimal choices in an environment with uninsurable risk and the effect of policy changes on the aggregate economic outcomes in such an environment.

Yang received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006.

Maria Casanova is an  Assistant Professor at California State University, Fullerton. Casanova's main research interest is on inter-temporal decisions of individuals and households, with a focus on labor supply and consumption/saving choices of older individuals. She has studied the sources of coordinated retirement decisions across spouses, the determinants of investment choices of individuals approaching retirement, and the nature and timing of wage declines as individuals age and their physical and cognitive abilities start deteriorating.

Orazio Attanasio is the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society.