Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. He also leads the Bangladesh Research Program for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE and Oxford...

Edward Miguel is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, and the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the provision and the impact of public goods on the poor in sub-Saharan Africa, notably in Kenya and Tanzania...

Robert Metcalfe is a Professor at Columbia University. Rob’s research lies within applied microeconomics, with a focus on energy and environmental markets, transportation, firm and labor productivity, and digital platforms. He uses field experimental methods to understand human behavior in regulated...

Muhammad Meki is an Associate Professor at the Oxford Department of International Development and an Associate Member of the Department of Economics. Muhammad’s research interests include the effect of equity-like financial contracts on the investment and growth of small firms. He has conducted...

David Molitor is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research explores how location and the environment shape health and healthcare delivery. His recent work includes a large-scale field experiment of workplace wellness conducted at the University of...

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...

William is a Professor of Economics at Université Catholique de Louvain and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Research, Education, and Training vertical. He wrote his dissertation on the analysis of credit demand and the evaluation of policies improving access to credit in three countries: Serbia, Brazil, and...

Ricardo Perez-Truglia is a Professor of Economics and Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. In 2020, he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields...

Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Political Economy and Governance sector. She is a Co-Editor of American Economic Review: Insights. Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the...

Susan W. Parker serves as a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She is also the Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center. Susan’s research centers on education and health, particularly the evaluation of public policies in developing countries.

Paolo Pinotti is a Professor at Bocconi University. His research interests include applied econometrics, political economics, economics of crime, and immigration. Paolo also serves as the director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at the Baffi-Carefin Center and coordinator of Fondazione...

Benjamin Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on understanding and relaxing the constraints to small-scale entrepreneurship in the developing world and how investors should behave when they have...

Elisabeth Sadoulet is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests span agricultural technologies, microcredit, conservation, conditional cash transfers, and property rights. Sadoulet has conducted field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America...

Heather is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests focus on health, public economics, and labor economics. Currently, Heather is studying education’s causal effects on health and fertility, as well as the effects of information and incentives...

Damon Jones is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Damon serves as a Scientific Advisor for J-PAL North America's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion portfolio.