Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is a Fellow and past President of the Society of Labor Economists and a Research Fellow at IZA. She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics and a member of the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Review of Economics of the Household.
Rasmus Lentz is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at Boston University (2002-2005), and Assistant Professor at the Wisconsin–Madison, Associate Professor. Lentz's research lies in the intersection of macro and labor economics with a particular focus on the impact of worker and firm heterogeneity on labor market outcomes.
Lentz received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 2002.
Donghoon Lee is a senior economist in the Microeconomics Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His primary research interests include labor economics and household finance. He has been working on estimation of equilibrium models in the US labor market, developing econometric and computational methods, and empirical works on household finance in the area of housing finance and education finance.
Lee received a B.A. from Seoul National University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.
Michael Keane is Nuffield Professor of Economics at Oxford University. His current research interests include: labor economics, empirical microeconomics, econometrics, consumer choice behavior, and marketing.
Keane received a B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.
Clement Joubert joined the department of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an assistant professor in 2010. His research interests include labor economics, pension economics and family economics. He has studied how pension system rules interact with labor market segmentation and gender inequality using dynamic models of human capital accumulation, occupational choice and savings structurally estimated on longitudinal survey and administrative data.
Raji Jayaraman's research in development and labor economics examines the role of incentives and social preferences on the decisions and performance of students, workers, and consumers. She has examined the effect of incentive pay on worker productivity; school feeding programs on student outcomes; defaults on charitable donations; and immigration on employment. In collaboration with theorists, she has also worked on the identification of peer effects in social interactions models.
V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics at Duke University and a research associate of the Duke Population Research Institute. He specializes in the areas of labor economics, economics of the family, economic demography, applied econometrics, and evaluating the impact of social programs. For his contributions to his field, Professor Hotz has appeared on the list of Who's Who in America since 1993. He was also named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2003.
James J. Heckman has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies for addressing those problems. His research recognizes the diversity among people in skills, family origins, peers, and preferences as well as the diversity of institutions and regulations and the consequences of this diversity for analyzing and addressing social and economic problems.
Rita Ginja is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen. Her research interests include applied economics, labor economics and development. She has been working on the evaluation of anti-poverty programs in U.S., U.K., and Latin America. Ginja is also studying the changes in within households' allocations in responses to income shocks and to which extent these changes are transferred to children's human capital.
Donna Gilleskie is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies the economics of individual decisionmaking with regard to health input demand, labor supply behavior, and health production. The approach reflected in my work involves understanding the dynamics of decisionmaking over time and the role of both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity.
