George Vachadze (College of Staten Island)

Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United States

Prof. George Vachadze holds Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2003) and Ph.D. in Economics from the Center of Economic Research and Graduate Education of Charles University (1999). Between 2000 and 2005 he worked for National Economic Research Associates Inc., Vortex Trading LLC, Bank of Nova Scotia, Read more…

Sharon Traiberman (NYU)

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Rosemary Kaiser (Rutgers University)

Hunter West 208

Rosemary Kaiser is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Economics. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2022. Her research interests are in macroeconomics and labor economics. Title: Labor Participation, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Business Cycle. Abstract:We explore labor force Read more…

Dan Hamermesh (Sue Killam Professor Emeritus)

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Dan Hamermesh is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. In Read more…

Prabal De (City College)

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Dr. Prabal K. De is a Professor of Economics in the Colin Powell School at the City College and a doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His recent research focuses on access, outcome, and disparities in health and education. His work has been funded by Read more…

Kevin Kuruc (University of Texas)

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Kevin Kuruc is a Senior Researcher at the Population Wellbeing Initiative of the University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Research Affiliate of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. His research interests are in applied macroeconomics, environmental economics, and welfare economics. He has work on climate and agricultural economics, population and Read more…

Sahar Parsa (NYU)

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Sahar Parsa is an applied economist with interests in political economy and finance. Her research has investigated both the determinants of political and cultural institutions, and the consequences of these institutions. Her research interests have led her to a wide variety of settings, from economic history and politics to financial Read more…

Kwabena Donkor (Stanford University)

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Kwabena grew up in Accra, Ghana, before migrating to the US. He received a BA/MA economics degree from Hunter College, a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at SIEPR.  Kwabena’s work combines theory, data, and field experiments to analyze the economic value Read more…

Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School)

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Laura Boudreau is an Assistant Director at Columbia Business School.  Laura received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on working conditions, labor market institutions, and firm productivity in developing countries. She is especially interested in how the intersection of global supply chains with local institutions affect Read more…

Saurabh Bhargava (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Saurabh Bhargava is an Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, an academic affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and the Founder and Co-Director of the BEDR Policy Lab. Saurabh's research area of Behavioral Economics broadly explores decision-making, and optimal policy design, in the contexts of health insurance, retirement savings, program take-up, unemployment, Read more…