Nicola Bianchi is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin, and a member of CEPR’s Research Policy Network on the Economics of Longevity and Ageing. Prior to Kellogg, he earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
Professor Bianchi’s research sits at the intersection of labor economics, the economics of education, and economic history. His work studies how organizations and public policies shape careers and long-run outcomes. His research has been published in leading economics journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Lisa Dettling is a Principal Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where she is part of a team responsible for analyzing the economics effects of fiscal policy and forecasting developments in the federal, state, and local government sectors. Her research is in labor and public economics, with a focus on domestic policy issues relating to families and household financial well-being. Her current work focuses on issues related to the economic determinants of fertility and household borrowing behavior. Her research has appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies, and has been profiled in media outlets such as the Economist, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Dettling received a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from The Ohio State University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland.
Kevin Kuruc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas. He joined Middlebury College in 2025, after spending three years at the University of Texas (as a Research Fellow) and the University of Oklahoma (as an Assistant Professor). He completed his PhD at the University of Texas in 2019 and spent time at the International Monetary Fund during graduate school.
Kevin’s research interests are in macroeconomics — specifically growth and development — as well as agricultural and environmental economics. His recent projects focus on the interaction of demographic change, technological progress, and sustainability issues.
Matteo Paradisi is an Assistant Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) and a lecturer at LUISS University. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
His research lies at the intersection of labor economics and public economics, with a particular focus on labor market institutions, inequality, and the design and evaluation of public policy. His work combines modern empirical methods with rich administrative and survey data to study how firms and workers respond to secular demographic trends, labor market regulations, and fiscal incentives.
He has worked on topics including age and gender wage differentials, labor market power, informality, and tax enforcement, with the goal of informing policy debates on employment, redistribution, and economic efficiency. His research has been presented at leading academic conferences and research institutions and speaks directly to questions relevant for policymakers concerned with labor market dynamics, inequality, and the design of effective public policies.
Timothy Layton is an associate professor of public policy and economics, specializing in health economics, at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Layton’s research focuses on the economics of health insurance markets, with a particular focus on markets and social health insurance programs for low-income households. His research involves a mix of empirical and conceptual work studying how and why health insurance markets often struggle to provide the contracts consumers want at prices they can afford. He is an international expert in adverse selection in health insurance markets and policy tools to correct selection-induced market distortions. He also studies the design of social insurance programs, especially Medicaid and Medicare, with particular focus on private provision of public social insurance benefits and how to design programs that are optimized for the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.
Layton is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliated researcher at J-PAL at MIT. He sits on the editorial board of the American Journal of Health Economics and will start a term as an editor at the Journal of Health Economics in January 2025. Prior to coming to UVA, Layton was the 30th Anniversary Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Layton’s research has been published in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, American Economic Review, Insights, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Applied, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Journal of Health Economics. He has also published widely in top clinical and health policy journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. He has won numerous awards for his work including the Willard Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics from the American Society of Health Economists, the Mark Satterthwaite Award for Outstanding Research in Healthcare Markets from the Kellogg School of Management, and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association. His work is funded from a variety of sources, including grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Minority Health and Disparities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Arnold Ventures, and J-PAL.
Layton has taught courses on health policy and health economics and advanced econometric methods for causal inference. He has advised many students over the course of his career, many of whom have gone on to top jobs in academies, government, and industry.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Boston University. He has three boys and loves mountain biking, hiking, and trail running.
Vincent Reina is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Real Estate in the Wharton School of Business. Reina is the Founder and Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn and is currently a Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow and Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Housing Policy Debate. His research focuses on urban economics, housing policy, and community and economic development, and has been published in various peer-reviewed journals.
In 2022-2024 Reina served as the Senior Advisor for Housing and Urban Policy in the White House Domestic Policy Council, where he worked to address the nation’s housing affordability and supply challenges, affirmatively further fair housing, increase access to homeownership, and advance community investment. Reina was also previously a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, a Lincoln Institute for Land Policy Scholar, and a Coro fellow.
Ben Keys is the Rowan Family Foundation Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Keys’s research has been published in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Econometrica, and has been profiled in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. His recent research has focused on climate risk, housing, mortgage, and insurance markets, among other topics. Before joining Wharton, Keys taught at the University of Chicago and worked as a staff economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Keys holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Joseph Majkut is director of the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In this role, he leads the program’s work understanding the geopolitics of energy and climate change and working to ensure a global energy transition that is responsive to the risks of climate change and the economic and strategic priorities of the United States and the world. Joseph is an expert in climate science, climate policy, and risk and uncertainty analysis for decisionmaking. He is frequently cited in trade and national media on the politics of climate change and has testified before Congress on climate change and science. Before CSIS, Majkut worked as the director of climate policy at the Niskanen Center, where he led that group’s efforts to research and promote carbon pricing, low-carbon innovation, regulatory reform, and other market reforms to speed decarbonization. From 2014 to 2015, he worked in the U.S. Senate as a congressional science fellow, supported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geosciences Institute. He holds a PhD from Princeton University in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the Delft University of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College.
Jeremy Neufeld is the Director of Immigration Policy at the Institute for Progress. Previously, he was an immigration policy analyst at the Niskanen Center. His work has been cited in numerous outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Bloomberg. He graduated with a B.S. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.