Dmitry Taubinsky is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on public and behavioral economics, including complex tax incentives, "sin taxes" on goods such as sugary drinks, consumer-facing energy policy and regulation, and welfare effects...

Kory Kroft is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. His current research interests include imperfect competition in the labor market, the optimal design of taxation and social insurance policies, the causes...

Shofie Alya is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia.

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...

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, teaches courses in public sector economics and American economic policy. In his research, he studies tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, and income inequality. Recent research has examined the impacts of government programs...

Jakob Svensson is the Director and a Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. His research interests include corruption, accountability in service delivery programs, and political economy.

Vincent Pons is the Byron Wein Professor of Business Administration in the Harvard Business School’s Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. He studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how to make rights and services more accessible to...

Stefano Fiorin is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University.

Elizabeth is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management and Faculty Director of The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her work primarily focuses on how to improve government services. Specifically, Elizabeth uses insights from behavioral science and...

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...

Manisha Shah is a Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary research questions and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and education. She has studied the economics of sex markets in order to learn more...