Miriam Gensowski is a Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research unit. Prior, she was assistant and associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics.

Miriam's research is focused on human capital, covering labor economics, the economics of education, and applied microeconometrics. In particular, she has worked on the role of multi-dimensional abilities and psychological traits in life outcomes, their dynamics and determinants, the returns to education, intergenerational occupational mobility, and the role of skills on occupational choice.

Raquel Fernández is a Professor in the Department of Economics at NYU. She is also a member of ESOP at the University of Oslo, the NBER, the CEPR, and IZA. She has previously been a tenured professor at the London School of Economics and Boston University and held visiting positions at various institutions around the world. She has served as the Director of the Public Policy Program of the CEPR and has been a Panel Member of the National Science Foundation and a Program Committee Member of the Social Science Research Council.

Flávio Cunha is a Professor of Economics at Rice University. He was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007-2014. He is also a research associate at Penn's Population Studies Center. Cunha's research focuses on the causes and consequences of inequality and poverty. His interest is in the quantification of degree to which labor income inequality is the result of the preexisting heterogeneity present across workers before they enter the labor market and how much is due to labor market shocks.