James Joseph Heckman is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago,where he is also a professor at the College,a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy,Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD),and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also a professor of law at the Law School,a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation,and a research associate at the NBER. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983,and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000,which he shared with Daniel McFadden. He is known principally for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is the business school of Northwestern University,a private research university in Evanston,Illinois. It was founded in 1908 as the School of Commerce. Its faculty,alumni,and students have made significant contributions to fields such as marketing,management sciences,and decision sciences.
Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development is the education school of Vanderbilt University,a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1875,Peabody had a long history as an independent institution before merging with Vanderbilt University in 1979. The school is located on the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The academic and administrative buildings surround the Peabody Esplanade and are southeast of Vanderbilt's main campus.
Celia Elizabeth (Betsy) Hoffman was executive vice president and provost of Iowa State University from 2007 to 2012,where she remains as professor of economics. From 2000 to 2005,she was president of the University of Colorado System,where she is president emerita. She is also a senior distinguished fellow at the Searle Center on Law,Regulations,and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law,and serves on numerous for-profit and non-profit Boards. She served on the National Science Board from 2002 to 2008. Her published research is in the areas of Experimental economics,Cliometrics,and Behavioral Economics.
The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy is the public policy school of the University of Chicago in Chicago,Illinois,United States. It is located on the University of Chicago's main campus in Hyde Park. The school's namesake is businessman Irving B. Harris,who made a donation that established the Harris School in 1986. In addition to policy studies and policy analysis,the school requires its students to pursue training in economics and statistics through preliminary examinations and course requirements. Harris Public Policy offers joint degrees with the Booth School of Business,Law School,School of Social Service Administration,and the Graduate Division of the Social Sciences.
The James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management &Law is a research center at Michigan State University in East Lansing,Michigan. Part of the Department of Media and Information at the College of Communication Arts and Sciences,the Quello Center is dedicated to original research on issues of information and communication management,law and policy. It is named for former Federal Communications Commission chairman James H. Quello.
The Segal Design Institute is a design thinking institute at Northwestern University. Segal operates within the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and is dedicated to the study of human-centered design at the undergraduate and graduate level.
New Economic School (NES) is a private institution of higher learning offering undergraduate and graduate programs in economics and finance in Moscow,Russia.
Dean Karlan is an American development economist. He is Chief Economist of USAID and Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University where,alongside Christopher Udry,he co-founded and co-directs the Global Poverty Research Lab at Kellogg School of Management. Karlan is the president and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA),a New Haven,Connecticut,based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems. He is also a Research Fellow and member of the Executive Committee of the board of directors at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with economists Jonathan Morduch and Sendhil Mullainathan,Karlan served as director of the Financial Access Initiative (FAI),a consortium of researchers focused on substantially expanding access to quality financial services for low-income individuals.
Konstantin Sonin is a Russian economist. He is a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy,research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR),London,and an associate research fellow at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. In recognition for his outstanding research in the field of political economy,in December 2015,he was named the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago.
Michael Harris is an Israeli-American public policy scholar and university administrator. He is currently the Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Tennessee State University and a Professor of Public Administration and Policy.
Michael Harry Schill is an American legal scholar and academic administrator. He has been serving as the 17th and current president of Northwestern University since September 2022. Schill previously served as the 18th president of the University of Oregon from 2015 to 2022,dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 2009 to 2015,and dean of the University of California,Los Angeles School of Law from 2004 to 2009.
William Viscusi is an American economist whose primary fields of research are the economics of risk and uncertainty,risk and environmental regulation,behavioral economics,and law and economics. Viscusi is the University Distinguished Professor of Law,Economics,and Management at Vanderbilt Law School where he and his wife,Joni Hersch,are the founders and co-directors of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt,Viscusi was the first John F. Cogan,Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Program on Empirical Legal Studies. Viscusi is the author of Pricing Lives:Guideposts for a Safer Society.
George Stanford Tolley was an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago. Along with the faculty at the University of Chicago,he has worked on the faculty of North Carolina State University. In 1965–1966,he was Director of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture,and in 1974–1975 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of Treasury.
Nancy Christine Staudt is the Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and the Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation. She is a scholar in tax,tax policy,and empirical legal studies.
The Princeton University Department of Economics is an academic department of Princeton University,an Ivy League institution located in Princeton,New Jersey. The department is renowned as one of the premier programs worldwide for the study of economics. The university offers undergraduate A.B. degrees,as well as graduate degrees at the Ph.D. level. It is often considered one of the "big five" schools in the field,along with the faculties at the University of Chicago,Harvard University,Stanford University,and MIT. According to the 2023-2024 U.S. News &World Report,its graduate department is ranked as the joint No. 4 in the field of economics,in a four-way tie between it,the University of Chicago,Yale University,and the University of California,Berkeley.
Milton Harris is an American mathematician and economist and is the Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance and Economics Emeritus at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Harris is an expert in the fields of corporate finance,corporate contract law,and applied economics. He is particularly interested in the economic theory of information and its effect on the firm and on organizations in general,and has done fundamental research in these areas.
C. Kirabo "Bo" Jackson is an American economist who is Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University,a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research,and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as co-editor at Journal of Human Resources and is currently on leave as Editor in Chief of the American Economic Journal:Economic Policy. In 2020,he was elected to the National Academy of Education and was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which honors the excellence and leadership of exceptional people from all disciplines and practices. In August,2023,the White House announced that Jackson had joined President Biden's three-member Council of Economic Advisers. He is the first Black man to hold this position.
Michael Amiridis is a Greek-American academic who serves as the 30th president of the University of South Carolina. Prior to this position,he served as chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago from 2015 to 2022.
