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...

Yusuf Neggers is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on state capacity and the delivery of public services. He has researched topics including bureaucratic diversity, electoral politics, and public works in India and Indonesia.

Benjamin A. Olken is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT. His research focuses on the public sector in developing countries, including work on social safety nets, taxation, and governance. He has worked extensively in Indonesia for over 20 years...

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...

Anant Nyshadham is an Associate Professor for Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on enterprise, firm, and worker characteristics and decision-making, particularly in developing countries. He has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Mexico...

Paulina Oliva is a Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the relationship between air pollution and health and on environmental policy effectiveness in the developing world...

Kate Orkin is Associate Professor in Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and an affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (Development and Labour programmes), the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), and the Centre for the Study...

Amanda Pallais is a Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her research focuses on the barriers preventing workers from achieving efficient employment outcomes and students from optimally...

Christopher Palmer is the Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on how credit, real estate, and labor markets respond to periods of significant upheaval. His recent experimental work...

Aurélie Ouss is a Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her research examines how good design of criminal justice institutions and policies can make law enforcement fairer and more...

Robert Darko Osei is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon, and also the Vice Dean for the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Ghana. His main areas of research include evaluative poverty and rural...

Emily Owens is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research centers on economies of crime, including policing, sentencing, and the effects of public policies on criminal behavior. Her current research topics include police...

Owen Ozier is an Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College. His research focuses on health, education, and economic decisions in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is on leave from the World Bank, where he is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group, Human Development Team.

Neale Mahoney is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, the George P. Shultz Fellow at SIEPR, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2022-2023, he was a Special Policy Advisor for Economic Policy in the White House National Economic Council. Mahoney is an...

Ofer Malamud is a Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Ofer’s research interests are concentrated in three substantive areas: educational investments over the life course, the role of technology in the...