Leonard Wantchekon is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, as well as Associated Faculty in Economics. His research is broadly focused on Political Economy and development economics particularly in Africa, and...

Christopher Walters is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers topics in labor economics, education, and applied econometrics. His current work focuses on school choice, school effectiveness, and early childhood interventions, with...

Jonathan Weigel is an Assistant Professor in the Business and Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. His research interests are at the intersection of political economy, development, and public economics. His research explores the role of state...

Heidi Williams is the Orville E. Dryfoos Professor in Economics and Public Affairs at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on how society can best support science and innovation and how we can best ensure that science and innovation generate broad benefits to society. She is the Director of...

Eric Verhoogen is a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and Vice Dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. His main research area is industrial development—firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy, and labor markets in...

Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra is an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australia National University. Firman’s research interests are microeconomics of development: health behavior and outcomes, economics of aging, education and labor market outcomes, consumption and...

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...

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Jack Willis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research interests include the financial lives of the poor, the functioning of rural markets and institutions, and learning and technology adoption. He has extensive experience running randomized evaluations in Kenya. He...

Christopher Woodruff is a Professor of Development Economics and a fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the Scientific Coordinator for the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (formerly DFID) and Center for Economic and Policy Research's joint research venture on Private...

Dean Yang is a Professor at the Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. His areas of interest include international migration and remittances, technology adoption, microfinance, human capital, disasters, international trade, and crime and corruption...

Andrew Zeitlin is an Associate Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economics at Oxford University. His research uses field and...

Crystal Yang is the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where she is Co-Director of the Crime Working Group. Her current research includes empirical projects on racial bias in the criminal...

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...

Wes Yin is on leave as a J-PAL affiliate. He is currently serving as Chief Economist at the White House Office of Management and Budget.