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Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard Kennedy School, “Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia”

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Biography: Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1999. Prior to joining HKS, she was the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where she founded and directed the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She is Vice-President of […]

Michael Muller-Smith, University of Michigan, “The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S.”

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Biography: Mike Mueller-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its broadly defined impact on the population. He is the […]

Emma Zang, Yale University, “Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health”

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Biography: Dr. Emma Zang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Biostatistics, and Global Affairs at Yale University. Zang’s research interests lie at the intersection of health and aging, marriage and family, and inequality, with a particular focus on examining these dynamics in both the United States and China. She is also interested in developing and […]

Janet Currie, Princeton University, “Investments in Children and Child Mental Health”

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Biography: Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development.  Her current […]

Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, “Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence”

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    Biography: Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research working group on the economics of crime, and Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. He helped found the Crime Lab 16 years ago […]