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Olivier Simard-Casanova

Olivier is a PhD student working with (and on) agent-based models in economics. He is also the founder of Le Signal Économie, the largest Francophone website dedicated to explain economics to the general public (operated by Aléryon Science). Through Le Signal Économie and Aléryon Science, he also have several meta-research projects on…

Jana Freundt

Jana Freundt is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a member of the Behavioral Ethics Lab and the Penn Social Norms Group. Before coming to Philadelhia, she was a PhD student in Economics and research associate at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Jana’s primary research focus lies…

Bárbara Farias Mota

Bárbara Maria Farias Mota is a Sociologist and a Masters student in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. She co-founded The Political Macroscope, an open source interactive platform aiming to help the broader public to better understand the Brazilian elections data. She also founded the “Real Techno Politik,”…

David Reinstein

David Reinstein is an Economist based at the University of Exeter. His research considers other-regarding behavior, charitable giving, returns to education, applications of mechanism design, and psychology and economics. He uses a variety of methods including observational econometrics and statistics, lab and field experiments, and economic theory. He is active in projects…

Benjamin Daniels

Benjamin Daniels is a Research Fellow in the gui2de group at Georgetown University. His research focuses on the delivery of high-quality primary health care in developing contexts. His work has highlighted the importance of direct measurement of health care provider knowledge, effort, and practice. To that end, he has supported some the…

Steven Miller

Steven V. Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. His research and teaching interests focus on international conflict, democratic peace and conflict behavior, and political behavior. His current research agenda explores how external threats (e.g. terrorism and disputed territory) change individual-level political attitudes to favor…

Fiona O’ Donovan

Fiona O’ Donovan is completing a PhD in psychology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Her research is funded by the Irish Research Council and is in collaboration with the agri-technology company Devenish Nutrition. Broadly, her PhD is looking at how nutritional and genetic factors influence…

Sami Miaari

Sami Miaari is a Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies in Tel-Aviv University and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD and MA in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also received his BSc in Mathematics and Economics from…

Marcus Torres

Marcus Vinícius de Sá Torres is a Masters student in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil. He is a Brazilian National Council of Research (CNPq) Fellow. He holds a B.A in Political Science from UFPE. He joins the Research Methods in Political Science and the Institutions and Public…

Emma McManus

Emma is a Research Associate in Health Economics at the University of East Anglia. She has a BSc with Honors in Mathematics, an MSc with distinction in Health Economics, and is currently enrolled in a part time PhD at the University of East Anglia, exploring the role of replication within health economic…

Eike Mark Rinke

Eike Mark Rinke (Dr. phil., Mannheim) is a Lecturer in Politics and Media at the University of Leeds in the UK. His scholarship on political communication, public opinion, journalism, and the mediated deliberation has been published in the Journal of Communication, Political Communication, and the International Journal of Communication. Rinke received the…

Maty Konte

Maty Konte joined the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) as a research fellow in Economics in 2013. Originally from Senegal, she obtained her PhD in Economics from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics in France where she was awarded the prize of Best PhD in Economics in 2013. She was awarded an Executive Education…

Caio Malaquias

Caio is an undergraduate student in the Department of Political Science at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Recife, Brazil. His research is primarily in the fields of public policy evaluation and social and political behavior. Caio studies the impact of maternal and child health policies on voting and social outcomes, how contemporary slavery…

Lily Alexander

Lily Alexander is an MPH student in Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. She worked at the Institute of Public Health in Mexico (INSP) in 2017, where she collaborated on a project to assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of reaching MSM through different HIV testing approaches. She has also…

Sergio Bautista

Sergio Bautista-Arredondo is currently the Director of the Division of Health Economics and Health Systems Innovations at the National Institute of Public Health of México (INSP) and a researcher affiliated with the Research Consortium on HIV/AIDS and TB (CISIDAT). He is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience in…

William Jimenez Leal

William Jimenez Leal is a cognitive psychologist interested in causal and moral reasoning. He is an associate professor of psychology at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is committed to continuously improving his research and teaching by adopting transparent practices. Contact

Lawrence De Geest

Lawrence De Geest is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Suffolk University. His research and teaching interests are in environmental and applied microeconomics, experimental economics, econometrics and machine learning, and complex systems. Alongside research and teaching, Lawrence volunteers with Statisticians Without Borders. He is also the author of panelGMM, an R package for estimating…

Jayash Paudel

Jayash Paudel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boise State University. He earned a B.A. with honors in Mathematical Economics from Colorado College in 2010 and a Ph.D. in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 2019. His research concentration is in environmental economics, applied microeconomics, and international…