Prachi Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Loyola Marymount University. Her research uses experimental methods to explore topics in behavioral economics, gender economics, and economic development. Her interests are expansive, for example exploring the role of social networks in informal insurance, the underrepresentation of women in labor markets, financial privacy in couples, and the effects of stress on economic decision-making. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action and an external affiliate with the California Center for Population Research. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. She previously was a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University and completed her B.A. degree in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Luoman Bao is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on aging, health, and family, with a particular attention to aging experiences and intergenerational dynamics in diverse social contexts, as well as their implications for the health and well-being of older adults. Her work also examines how gender, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities shape family experiences and individual health across the aging process.
Dr. Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young is an immigrant health scholar whose research seeks to understand the impact of the US immigration system on the well-being of immigrants and their families. She has established new frameworks and measures to understand the relationships between immigration policies, citizenship/legal status, and health, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies showing that immigration policy is associated with health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is to partner with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in a wide range of public health, health policy, and sociological journals, including American Journal of Public Health, The Milbank Quarterly, International Migration Review, and Social Science and Medicine. She received her PhD in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her MPH with an emphasis in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Tabashir biography will be uploaded shortly.