Dirk Krueger is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 2008-2012. He also served as co-editor of the American Economic Review from 2009-2011. His research interests are in macroeconomics and public finance, with emphasis on models with heterogeneous households.

Weerachart Tee Kilenthong is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) and the director of the Research Institute for Policy Evaluation and Design (RIPED). His research interests include growth and development, macroeconomics, contract theory, financial economics, labor and education economics. He received a Bachelor degree in Engineering (First Class Honor with Gold Medal) from Masters Degree in Physics from Chulalongkorn University.

John Eric Humphries is a Cowles Foundation postdoctoral associate at Yale University and will be an assistant professor in economics at Yale University starting in July 2018. His research focuses on topics in labor economics and applied microeconomics. In particular, he studies how educational and career dynamics are affected by public policy. Much of my work considers how policies affect the acquisition of human capital and the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the labor market. 

Zhong Zhao is Professor of Economics at Renmin University of China and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). His main areas of interest are labor economics, applied microeconometrics, social program evaluation and economy of China. His recent research topics on China include children's health, earnings instability and inequality, rural-urban disparity, comparison of wage evolutions in India and China, and rural-urban migration.

Yuzhe Zhang is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Prior to his appointment at Texas A&M in 2011, he was an assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 2006 to 2011. His expertise lies in mechanism design and macroeconomics. He has published articles in international journals including Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Mathematical Economics.

Zhang received his B.A. in economics from Wuhan University, China, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006.

Junjian Yi is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Yi focuses on both theoretically and empirically analyzing family behaviors and human capital.

Yi received both M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 and 2011, respectively, supervised by Prof. Junsen Zhang and an M.A. in Economics from Zhejiang University in 2005.

Jane Waldfogel is the Compton Foundation Centennial Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work and a visiting professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. She has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being.

Alessandra Voena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the University of Chicago. Prior to moving to Chicago, she was a Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on economics of the family, labor economics, and development economics. While at Stanford, she was a Graduate Dissertation Fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies and was selected to participate in the May 2011 Review of Economic Studies European Tour.

Gianluca Violante is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He currently holds one of the William R. Berkley Term Endowed Chairs in Economics and Business. His main research interests are in macroeconomics and labor economics. Among other journals, he has published his research in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies.

Emma Tominey is a Professor at the University of York and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor Economics (IZA). Her research focuses on the interaction between family inputs and child human capital development.

Tominey received a B.Sc. in Economics & Accounting with Law (First Class) from The University of Bristol in 2001, a M.Sc. in Economics (Distinction) from The University of Bristol in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London in 2010.