Presenters

Stephanie El Khoury is a PhD candidate in Economics at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. Her research focuses on education and gender topics, with a particular interest in information frictions. In her job market paper, "Information Bias and Selection of Female Professors", Stephanie examines how gender bias on professor evaluation platforms influences students' enrollment decisions and shapes their beliefs.

Juliet-Nil Uraz is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Research Fellow at Opportunity Insights, Harvard University, for the 2024-2025 academic year. Her research lies at the intersection of public economics, public finance and empirical legal studies. She is particularly interested in disentangling the impacts of access to legal assistance on eviction, benefits takeup, health and economic inequalities.

She works with Policy in Practice, a social policy software company that harnesses administrative benefits data to design poverty alleviation interventions. She also collaborates with the UK Legal Aid Practitioners Group to develop AI tools for the legal aid sector and with the Justice Data Observatory of the American Bar Foundation to map access to justice initiatives globally.

Surbhi Sharma is a PhD scholar at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from GGSIPU and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Delhi. Her research interests lie in development economics, with a special focus on gender, health, and education. Her work focuses on intrahousehold dynamics and intergenerational transfers, employing empirical methods to understand their implications for policy and social welfare.

I am Bakhtawar Ali, I am a 5th year PhD candidate (European 3rd year) at the Aix Marseille School of Economics (AMSE). I am interested in Development Economics, Political Economy, and Law and Economics. My research is focused on understanding the role of legal institutions on development.  I will be on the job market in Oct 2025. Before starting my PhD, I worked for the World Bank, Precision Development (PxD), and Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). I helped in implementation and organization of various RCTs and policy evaluations. In my job market paper, using a regression discontinuity design, I study how the judiciary can be weaponized to target political opponents and what the mechanisms are to mitigate this Lawfare. 

Anqi Ye is a PhD candidate in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research focuses on development economics, with an emphasis on family, health, and education. She is particularly interested in how public policies interact with social inequality. Her current work examines the differential welfare impacts of cash transfers within senior couples.

PhD candidate specializing in health economics, labor economics, and social interactions at the Department of Economics, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

My research primarily focuses on assessing the impact of healthcare policies on physician referral networks and patients' access to specialist care, as well as the role of peer support in adolescent mental health. I am also interested in the impact of government policies on physician retention in remote or isolated regions. I hold an MSc in Applied Economics and Macroeconomics from the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin.

Kenneth Annan is a PhD candidate in the Applied Economics program at Oregon State University. He received a double MSc. in Economics and Data Science from South Dakota State University and a BSc. in Mathematics with Economics from the University of Cape Coast.

His primary research focuses on agricultural economics and environmental and resource economics. He integrates approaches from applied econometrics and statistical modeling to analyze agricultural, resource, and environmental issues, providing valuable insights that guide policymakers. Kenneth’s research projects include irrigation and water rights, wildfires, land use and land values, and commodity price analysis. He will be on the job market starting in the Fall of 2025.

Danny Gold is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his research focuses on the interaction of regulation and discrimination with rental market outcomes and the supply of housing. Prior to UW–Madison, he received a master’s degree in economics from the University of Toronto as a Fulbright Canada student and previously served as a research analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In his free time, he enjoys running, cycling, hiking, and paddle-boarding in and around Madison; watching live music; and hosting friends and family for increasingly ambitious meals and cocktails. 

Mateus Maciel holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Rio de Janeiro State University and a master's degree from both the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Goethe University Frankfurt. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Tübingen and conducts research at the Research School of International Taxation (RSIT) and the Deutsche Bundesbank. His research interests include taxation, crime, and digitalization.

Niken Kusumawardhani is a Ph.D. candidate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research explores the role of social norms and cultural factors in shaping female labor market outcomes in Indonesia, with a focus on barriers to women's labor market outcomes and economic empowerment.

Before pursuing her doctoral studies, Niken worked at The SMERU Research Institute, a leading policy think tank based in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she conducted research on labor markets, gender, poverty, and social protection. Her work involved quantitative analysis of labor policies, evaluation of social programs, and the development of evidence-based policy recommendations to support inclusive economic development. Niken holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from University of Indonesia and a master’s in economics & public policy from SciencesPo, Paris.

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota with a Graduate Minor in Human Rights. I hold both a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico in Peru. My research interests lie at the intersection of development economics, political economy, economic history, and economics of crime and violence. 

I am a PhD Candidate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. My research interests lie in the fields of political economy and development economics. In my dissertation, I am studying the relationship between political systems, poverty & social mobility. Before this, I have completed my B.Sc. (Research) in Economics degree from Shiv Nadar University, with minors in Sociology & International Relations.