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 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 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.

Clive Belfield is an Associate Professor of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York. He is also Co-director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Associate Editor, Economics of Education Review. His research field is cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of educational interventions. Belfield's most recent book is The Price We Pay: The Economic and Social Costs of Inadequate Education. He has authored numerous articles on the economics of education and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the U.S.

Professor Behrman is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. He also serves as the Economics/Social Science member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) National Advisory Council.

Timothy J. Bartik is a Senior Economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. His research focuses on state and local economic development and local labor markets, and his work spans areas such as evaluating economic development programs; how investment in early childhood programs affects local economies; the benefits of higher education institutions for local economic development; and alternative policies for increasing labor demand for the poor. Among his many books and book chapters, Dr. Bartik's Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?

Silke Anger is Senior Researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in the Department German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).  Her research interests include empirical labor economics and health economics, with a particular focus on cognitive and non-cognitive skills, intergenerational mobility and risky behavior. Her work has been published in journals such as Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of Health Economics.

Stefania Albanesi is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a Research Associate at NBER. Albanesi's research interests are in macroeconomics, public economics, and labor economics. Her current research concentrates on understanding the determinants of household borrowing and default behavior, and on quantifying the impact of changing trends in female participation on aggregate business cycles.