Esther Duflo is a professor of economics at MIT. Her work includes randomized evaluations of policies to promote agricultural productivity in Kenya. She has also examined the impact of women and lower caste members of village councils in India.

Oriana Bandiera is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. She specializes in the design of field experiments to evaluate how individual behavior is shaped by monetary incentives and social relationships. Recent work covers field experiments on the provision of incentives for pro-social tasks among community workers in Zambia and the randomized evaluation of large scale poverty reduction and female empowerment interventions in Bangladesh, Uganda and Tanzania.

Luc Behaghel is a researcher at the Laboratoire d'economie appliquee (LEA-INRA) within the Paris School of Economics. His research interests include the impact of an aging population on labor market outcomes and on technical change, and the evaluation of labor market and rural development policies. He is working on a large-scale randomized evaluation of a program counseling the unemployed in France.

Martina Bjorkman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at IGIER, Bocconi University. Her work focuses on health and education in developing countries. In particular, she studies the provision and impact of public services to the poor in Sub Saharan Africa. She has conducted a randomized evaluation of a community-based monitoring program in Uganda and is working on an evaluation of a comprehensive community empowerment project also in Uganda.

Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His areas of research interest include development economics, public economics, political economy, labor economics and environmental economics. He has published on a variety of topics - natural disasters, mass media, rural banks, land reform, labor regulation, industrial policy, taxation, poverty and growth. He has a particular interest in studying whether and how productive opportunities can be extended to poor households and is involved in evaluating BRAC programs which try to promote entrepreneurship amongst the ultra poor both in Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.

Bruno Crepon is researcher at CREST and professor at ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique. The focus of his research is mainly on policy evaluation with a special attention to labor market policies.

Greg Fischer is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and financial innovation in developing countries. Prior to returning to academia, Greg worked for nine years in the private equity and venture capital arms of Morgan Stanley and Centre Partners, an affiliate of Lazard. His current work includes the randomized evaluations of a business training program in the Dominican Republic and the pricing of new water treatment technology in Ghana.

Marc Gurgand is an Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on labor market policies, schooling and inequality in both developing and developed countries. He his currently conducting randomized evaluations of counseling schemes focused on the unemployed and welfare recipients. He also has a research program studying inequality in China.

Elise Huillery
Assistant Professor of Economics
Sciences Po

Elise Huillery is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po. Her research is mainly focused on applied microeconomics and development economics. She is currently conducting field experiments in health, education and micro-entrepreuneurship in Niger, Morocco, Cameroun and France.

Email: ehuillery@povertyactionlab.org 

Eric Maurin is the Director of Research, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His research focuses on education, labor, and econometrics.

William Parientes assistant professor of economics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. His research focuses on labor, access to credit, poverty, and health issues. He is currently involved in several field experiments in Morocco, Pakistan and France.

Imran Rasul is a Reader in the Department of Economics at University College London. His areas of interest focus on labor economics and household economics. Previous and ongoing projects include studying whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family and the evaluation of a female adolescent empowerment program in rural Uganda and Tanzania.

Jakob Svensson is a professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. His research interests include corruption, accountability (or lack thereof) in service delivery programs, and political economy.

Philippe Zamora is a researcher at the Centre de Recherches en Economie et Statistiques (CREST). His research interests are focused on labor market policies and continuous training.