Amanda Agan is Assistant Professor of Economics and Affiliated Professor in the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Her research uses both quasi-experimental and field experimental methods to answer policy-relevant questions in criminal justice and labor economics. She has published several papers related to inequality, discrimination, and crime in leading peer-reviewed economics journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Nayoung Rim is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Naval Academy. Her research interests are racial and gender inequality in education and the labor market. Her research has examined how up-or-out promotion policies affect fertility timing decisions differently for men vs. women, the effectiveness of Title IX in reducing gender disparities in graduate education, and how in-group bias affects the internal dynamics of police departments. Her work has been supported by the AccessLex Institute, AIR, and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Marta Golin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Zurich and Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development. She holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Economics from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College).

Terry-Ann Craigie is an Associate Professor of Economics at Smith College. She is also the Economics Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University. Since then, she has done postdoctoral work at Princeton University and held visiting scholar positions at the Urban Institute and Brown University.

Sebastian Gallegos is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the UAI Business School, Chile. He holds a PhD from The University of Chicago Harris School, with a field specialization at the Department of Economics, taught by Jim Heckman, Bob LaLonde, and Dan Black.

Professor Gallegos was a Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University, with the Department of Economics. He also worked as Research Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (SPD) in Washington, DC.

Jun Hyung Kim is an assistant professor of economics at the Institute of Economic and Social Research at Jinan University. His research is focused on parenting and child development, with particular attention on how life cycle decisions of parents interact with parenting decisions. His job market paper highlights the role of parenting skill in the realization of parenting style in the household, and the heterogeneous effects of parenting behavior on child development.

Bobby Chung is an applied microeconomist with specialties in labor, education, and health. He is now an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of South Florida. He is also a research affiliate at the HCEO Global Working Group and CSOR research center. Prior to joining USF, Bobby was a faculty at St Bonaventure University and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

Chung received his Ph.D in Economics from Clemson University. 

Francesco Agostinelli is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on child development, by developing new methods and analyzing the determinants of children’s skill formation. His job market paper sheds light on the importance of dynamic equilibrium interdependencies between children’s social interactions and parental investments decisions in explaining developmental differences between different social environments. 

Joseph Mullins is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario. His current research examines how the incentives of various government policies affect child development by shaping parental decision-making.

Sojourner is Senior Research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Emmployment Research. He was formerly associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His research focuses on 1) effects of labor-market institutions, 2) policies to promote efficient and equitable development of human capital with a focus on early childhood and K-12 education systems, and 3) behavioral economic approaches to consumer finance decisions.