TIMOTHY J. BARTIK is a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a non-profit and non-partisan research organization in Kalamazoo. He co-directs the Institute’s research initiative on place-based prosperity, Investing in Community.  Bartik’s research focuses on state and local economic development and local labor markets. His most recent book is Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity (2019). Dr. Bartik received his B.A. from Yale, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

DAVID SPLINTER is an economist at the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, where he analyses tax proposals. He received his PhD in economics from Rice University. His research on income inequality, income mobility, and tax policy is available at davidsplinter.com.

JEFF LARRIMORE is the section chief for the Consumer and Community Research Section at the Federal Reserve Board. At the Federal Reserve, he has worked as the lead economist on the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking since 2014. This survey monitors the financial circumstances of U.S. families, with an emphasis on how low and middle income individuals are faring. Much of Jeff’s research focuses on income inequality, income mobility, and the implications of taxes and public transfers on the distribution of economic resources. His recent research uses IRS tax data to explore income trends in the United States since the Great Recession. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other news outlets. Jeff previously worked as a senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on employment policies and as an economist for the Joint Committee on Taxation estimating the impacts of tax legislation on federal tax revenues.  He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University, his B.A. in economics and political science from Davidson College.

Mary E. Lovely is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for
International Economics. She held the 2022 Carnegie Chair in US-China Relations
with the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Lovely is professor emeritus of
economics at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
where she was Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar. She served as co-editor
of the China Economic Review during 2011–15. Lovely earned her PhD in
economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MA in city and regional
planning from Harvard University.

JENS LUDWIG is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and co-director of the Education Lab. He has written extensively about a range of social policy problems related to crime, gun violence, education and poverty. He helped found the Crime Lab and Education Lab to partner closely with cities and states across the country to use the tools of data and science to improve social conditions on the ground, which includes the use of different social policy levers to prevent youth violence in Chicago, efforts to help New York City close the Rikers Island jail without compromising public safety, a nationwide initiative to address gun violence by strengthening the organizational capacity of police departments and NGOs in the community violence intervention field, and partnership with districts across the country to overcome pandemic-induced learning loss. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

JONATHAN GURYAN is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, and a courtesy member of the Economics Department and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a co-founder and co-director of the Education Lab at the University of Chicago. Much of his research falls into two main categories, understanding the sources and consequences of racial inequality and the economics of education. His work on these subjects has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education.

ERIC ZWICK studies the interaction between public policy and corporate behavior, with a focus on fiscal stimulus, taxation and housing policy. His research draws insights from finance and behavioral economics while using a variety of methods: new data, natural experiments, theory and anecdotal exploration. Zwick is particularly interested in the problems that small and medium-sized private firms and new ventures face, from the perspective of owners, investors, managers and workers. A secondary area of interest concerns the role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in the design of policies that promote behavior change. This work focuses on determinants of habit formation in health and workforce productivity settings. Zwick earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in business economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics and mathematics with high honors from Swarthmore College. Prior to grad school, he worked as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a web and software developer for several start-ups and non-profits.

Owen Zidar is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in the Princeton University Department of Economics and School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. Professor Zidar is a public finance economist who studies the taxation of firms and top earners, local fiscal policy, and the creation and distribution of economic resources. Before joining Princeton, Zidar worked as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, and as an analyst at Bain Capital Ventures. Zidar holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His pre-doctoral studies were at Dartmouth College where he earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in economics (high honors). He is a 2018 recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a 2020 recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Mark Duggan is The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford and was the Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from September 2015 through August 2024.His research focuses on the health care sector and the effects of government expenditure programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. His research has been published in leading academic outlets including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been featured in many media outlets including The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Duggan was the 2010 recipient of the ASHEcon Medal (awarded once every two years to the leading health economist in the U.S. under age 40) and his research has been funded by National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Social Security Administration. He has testified about his research to committees in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives and he served from 2009 to 2010 as the Senior Economist for Health Care Policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He teaches “Econ 1” at Stanford and advises dozens of undergraduate and graduate students.