George-Levi Gayle is an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Economics. His research investigates topics in the field of labor economics, broadly defined. He focuses on three main areas, namely, family and gender issues in labor, the effect of information friction on earnings and compensation and the estimation of semi-parametric models. His recent work investigates how investment in human capital, job assignment and job turnover affect wage determination and the distribution of economic rents in the presence of uncertainty and imperfect information.

Professor Zvi Eckstein is the Dean of the School of Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzelia and visiting professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel from 2006 to 2011. Eckstein gave the Walras-Bowley lecture at the Econometric Society Summer 2008 meetings and he is a fellow of the Econometric Society.  He was an Assistant Professor at Yale University, 1980-1983. Eckstein worked at Tel-Aviv University from 1983 - 2012, and took early retirement at 2012 as Professor of Economics.

Orla Doyle currently a Lecturer at the University College Dublin School of Economics and a Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the UCD Geary Institute. The core focus of her research is a micro analysis of human behaviour. Her reseach interests include the economics of human development, health economics, political behaviour, early child development and education, developmental psychology and methods for evaluating policy interventions.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.