Rachid Laajaj is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad de Los Andes. His primary areas of research are technology adoption in agriculture, corruption, and human capital. He studies these issues from a micro-development perspective, paying particular attention to the role of...

Elise is a Professor at Paris Dauphine University. Her research focuses on policies addressing the lack of human capital (health, education, and social capital) in developing countries and France, with a special interest in understanding the psychological barriers to individual progression.

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...

Pieter Serneels is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and a Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, where he leads the Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics Research Group and serves as an Executive Member of the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental...

Alfredo Burlando is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Oregon.

Eric Mvukiyehe is an Assistant Professor at Duke University. His academic and policy research includes (i) poverty reduction and labor market frictions; (ii) employment, violence, and social stability; (iii) political economy of conflict and peacekeeping interventions; (iv) state capacity and local...

Rodrigo R. Soares is Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Economics at Insper - São Paulo, Brazil and a Research Fellow at IZA. His research centers on development economics, ranging...

Matt Lowe is an Assistant Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics of the University of British Columbia. Matt uses field and natural experiments to study topics in behavioral, development, and political economy. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT.

Heather Schofield is an Assistant Professor at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Her two primary ongoing areas of research include the role of health human capital in economic productivity, cognitive function, and decision-making; and the role of financial and social...

Antara Rao Yadavalli is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where she works on the Targeted and Flexible Microfinance project in Tamil Nadu. Her work focuses on expanding access to credit for urban self-employed households, with responsibilities spanning data management and field operations to...

Bridget Terry Long is the Dean and the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the transition from high school to higher education and beyond, and she examines the impact of factors such as affordability and academic preparation...

Arun Chandrasekhar is a Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University. His research focuses on development, social networks, and econometrics.