Parag Pathak is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT, found­ing co-direc­­tor of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), a lab­o­ra­to­ry focused on edu­ca­tion, human cap­i­tal, and the income dis­tri­b­u­tion.  In 2005, based on work in his PhD […]

David Autor is a Professor and Associate Department Head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (pub­lished by the American Economic Association), and has served on the Board of Editors at […]

Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a Research Associate in the NBER’s pro­grams on Children, Education, and Labor Studies. A dual U.S. and Israeli cit­i­zen, he taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before com­ing to MIT. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1982 and also spent time […]