Thomas Kane is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Gates Foundation.

Philip Oreopoulos is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. He has held previous visiting appointments at Harvard and the...

Jessica Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the ways that people in developing countries earn, spend, and save money. She is particularly interested in how financial market imperfections, behavioral factors, or other obstacles affect...

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, teaches courses in public sector economics and American economic policy. In his research, he studies tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, and income inequality. Recent research has examined the impacts of government programs...

Grant Miller is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development. His research focuses on understanding the major causes of population health improvement around the world and over time...

Gharad Bryan is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics. His research interests include migration and financial products for the poor, including commitment savings, insurance, and microcredit. Bryan has conducted research projects in Bangladesh, South Africa, Kenya, and Malawi.

Marianne Bertrand is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She is an applied microeconomist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, political economy, and development economics.

Douglas Staiger is the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Williams College in 1984 and his PhD in Economics from MIT in...

Cynthia Kinnan is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Tufts University. Her research focuses on the interaction of networks and access to financial systems in the developing world.