Dean Karlan (Northwestern University) will present his research “Agriculture, Technology and Economic Development.”

Naoki Aizawa (UW-Madison) will present his research “Local Market Equilibrium and the Design of Public Health Insurance System."

Andros Kourtellos (UW-Madison and University of Cyprus) will present his research “Identification of Genetic Influences of Socioeconomic Outcomes via Kinship Relations”.

Kevin Thom  (New York University) will present his research “Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making.”

Ethan Jiang (Rutgers) will present his research “The Profits and Perils of Rapport: Pass-throughs and Conflicts of interest in Credit Ratings.”

Désiré Kédagni (Penn State) will present his research “Identifying Treatment Effects in the Presence of Confounded Types.”

Matthew Wiswall, from UW-Madison will present his research “Human Capital Investments and Expectations about career and Family.”

Russell Hillberry from Purdue University will present his research “Expediting trade:Impact evaluation of an in-house clearance program.”

Benjamin Brooks from the University of Chicago will present his research “Informationally Robust Optimal Auction Design”

Rebecca Neumann from UW-Milwaukee will present her research “The Impact of Patent Protection and Financial Development on Industrial R&D.”