Thomas Dohmen

Thomas Dohmen is the Professor of Applied Microeconomics at Universität Bonn (Germany) and Professor of Education and the Labour Market at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. From December 2007 until December 2012, he was Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). From January 2003 until November 2007, he was employed as a Research Associate at IZA. He studied economics at Maastricht University, where he received his Master's degree (M.A.) in Economics in December 1998 and his doctoral degree in May 2003.

Daniela Del Boca

Daniela Del Boca is a Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, Fellow of Collegio Carlo Alberto, Research Associate of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at NYU (IHDSC) and Director of the Center for Household Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD). She has published several books and articles in the area of Labor Economics and the Economics of the Family, including The American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics,Labour Economics, the Review of Income and Wealth, European Economic Review and Oxford Economic

Janet Currie

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton's Center for Health and Well Being. She also directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has served on several National Academy of Sciences panels including the Committee on Population, and was elected Vice President of the American Economics Association in 2010.

Flávio Cunha

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.

Daniele Coen-Pirani

Daniele Coen-Pirani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics. His research interests in the area of human capital accumulation include the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S. and around the world, and the implications for inequality and efficiency of alternative approaches to financing primary and secondary education.

Pedro Carneiro

Pedro Carneiro is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Economics at University College London, a Research Economist at the Centre of Microdata Methods and Practice, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Carneiro is a labor economist working on the determinants and consequences of skill formation, in developed and developing countries.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, where he was supervised by James Heckman.

Dan Black

Dan A. Black is a professor at the Harris School and a Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center. He currently serves as the principal investigator for the 1997 Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, is co-project director (with Bob Michael) of the NLSY program at NORC, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, and the Journal of Urban Economics.

Pietro Biroli

Pietro Biroli is starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich. He is interested in the process of health and human capital development in children and adolescents. In particular, his current research explores the interaction between genetics, family investments, and early childhood interventions in explaining the long-term inequality across gender and socioeconomic status. More broadly, he is interested in Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics.

Raquel Bernal

Raquel Bernal is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics and Econometrics in the Economics Department at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her recent research focuses on the determinants of an individual's performance in the labor market and in particular, the determinants of ability at early stages of life.

Samuel Berlinski

Samuel Berlinski is Principal Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to joining the Bank in 2010, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at University College London and previously held appointments at Universidad de San Andrés and the London School of Economics. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Economic Development and Cultural Change.

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