Jane Cooley Fruehwirth is an Associate Professor in economics at the University of North Carolina. Prior to this, she was a Reader (associate professor) at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. She also spent several years as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. Her research interests include social economics, economics of education and more recently religiosity and mental health.

Fruehwirth received a B.A. wih High Honors, Magna Cum Laude from The College of William and Mary in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 2006.

Alberto Bisin is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He is also a fellow of the NBER, IGIER at Bocconi University, CESS at NYU, CIREQ at the Université de Montreal. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. His main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. He is a co-editor of the Handbook of Social Economics. He is also the founding editor of www.noisefromamerika.org.