David Atkin is the Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor of Economics at MIT and a Co-Chair of J-PAL's Firms sector.

Frank Schilbach is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of behavioral and development economics. Frank's primary research examines previously neglected correlates of poverty, including substance abuse, physical...

Jason Kerwin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington. He is a development economist, with research interests in health, education, labor, and financial inclusion. Jason’s research has covered topics ranging from behavioral responses to HIV risks are...

Katherine Baicker is Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

David Yang is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He studies political economy, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, and cultural economics. In particular, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes, drawing lessons from...

Elizabeth Setren is the Gunnar Myrdal Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University. Her work focuses on education and labor economics. She has conducted evaluations studying the impact of Boston charter schools on special education students and English Language Learners, the scaling of the...

Dayanand Manoli is an Associate Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Dayanand’s research focuses on empirical analyses to document and improve the impacts of government policies. His research interests include social security and retirement policy, income tax...

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. León-Ciliotta’s research focuses on political and organizational economics in developing countries and explores questions related to the selection and incentives of public...

Eric Bettinger is the Conley DeAngelis Family Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the Director of the Center for Educational Policy Analysis and the Director at the Lemann Center for Brazilian Education at Stanford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Jonathan Guryan is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

David Deming is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and the Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kyle Emerick is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University. He focuses on Development Economics, with a particular emphasis on the Agricultural sector.

David Yanagizawa-Drott is Professor of Development and Emerging Markets at the University of Zurich. His research interests include economic development and political economy, with a special focus on civil conflict, health, information, and mass media. He has explored issues such as the impact of...