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Leonardo Bursztyn — University of Chicago
Research focus: His research seeks to better understand how individuals’ main economic decisions are shaped by their social environments. His work has examined educational, labor market, financial, consumption, and political decisions, both in developing and developed countries.
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Alexander W. Cappelen — Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Research interests: Behavioral, experimental and public economics, business ethics, social choice theory, political philosophy and distributive justice.
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Elliott Fan — National Taiwan University
Research interests: Historical economics, gender economics, family economics.
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Claudia Goldin — Harvard University
Research areas: Female labor force, gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change, education, and immigration. Her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern.
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Alessandra L. González
Research focus: Gender, development, and organizations. She studies the role of culture on gender inequality, particularly economic outcomes such as labor force participation, occupational segregation, and executive leadership in organizations.
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Erik Hurst — University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Research areas: Macroeconomics, labor economics, and urban economics. His research has addressed declining male participation rates, wage growth, welfare losses from gender and racial discrimination, urban gentrification, time use, small business dynamics, life-cycle consumption, housing and mortgage markets, and human capital investment.
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Marlene Koffi — University of Toronto
Research interests: Economics of Innovation and Science. She is also interested in applying deep learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques for Economics studies and public policies.
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Eliana La Ferrara — Harvard Kennedy School
Research interests: Development economics and political economics, particularly the role of social factors in economic development. Her work has studied ethnic diversity, kin structure and social norms, the effects of television on social outcomes, and political constraints to development.
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Corinne Low — The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research focus: The economics of gender and discrimination.
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Jiawei Lyu — University of Toronto
Research focus: Labor and development economics, examining how policies and information shape gender inequality in the labor market and how workplace practices affect institutional productivity.
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Xin Meng — Australian National University
Research areas: Development economics; labour economics; economics of education; applied microeconomics; economic history.
Research themes: The Chinese labour market during transition; institutions and culture in gender discrimination; rural–urban migration and immigrant assimilation; and the economic and behavioural implications of major catastrophes.
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L. Rachel Ngai — London School of Economics
Research areas: Economic growth, labour and housing market.
Research topics: Structural Transformation and Gender; Home Production and Time Use; Housing Market; Policy and Sectoral Allocation; Multisector Growth Model.
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Claudia Olivetti — Dartmouth College
Research focus: Women in the labor market including wages, hours, and careers, and intergenerational mobility and marriage institutions in historical perspective. She has also worked on the baby boom, maternal health, and historical and comparative perspectives on the gender gap.
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Jessica Pan — National University of Singapore
Research interests: Labor Economics, Gender, Immigration, Education, Applied Micro.
Current research: Gender differences in labor market and educational outcomes; international migration and labor-market effects; discrimination, marriage markets, and returns to education.
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Barbara Petrongolo — University of Oxford
Research interests: Labour economics. Her work studies labor markets with job-search frictions, unemployment and wage dynamics, welfare policy, local spillovers, monopsony power, and the causes of gender inequalities in labor-market outcomes, with emphasis on employment selection mechanisms, structural transformation, household interactions, and gender norms.
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Bertil Tungodden — Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Research areas: Behavioral and experimental economics, development economics, distributive justice, and social choice theory.
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Lise Vesterlund — University of Pittsburgh
Research focus: Behavioral and experimental economics. Her work examines how gender differences in competition, confidence, and expectations contribute to the persistent gender gap in advancement.
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Alessandra Voena — Stanford University
Research areas: Not yet added — the collected source does not contain a self-description of her research fields.
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David Yanagizawa-Drott — University of Zurich
Research interests: Development economics and political economy. A current focus is understanding the drivers of culture and norms in shaping labor markets for men and women and the role of social media in shaping society.
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Code and Data for Social Scientists: A Practitioner’s Guide to Programming Logic

• Original Title: 一份值得推荐给所有学术人的编程底层逻辑指南
• Link: Read Original Article (Chinese)
• Themes: Empirical Workflows, Code Abstraction, Version Control, Automation, Project Management
• Core Intuition:
  A practitioner’s guide summarizing 12 core programming and data management principles for empirical research, adapting industrial software engineering practices into social science research workflows.

Handling Fixed Effects in Predictions Under High-Dimensional Fixed Effects (HDFE) Models

• Original Title: HDFE模型在对因变量进行预测时，如何处理固定效应？
• Link: Read Original Article (Chinese)
• Themes: High-Dimensional Fixed Effects, HDFE Prediction, reghdfe, fixest, Average Partial Effects
• Core Intuition:
  A deep dive into the econometric logic of predictions in HDFE models. Grounded in Wooldridge’s Average Partial Effects (APE) framework, I unpack why Stata’s reghdfe and R’s fixest predict net of fixed effects to isolate covariate-driven average conditional means.

How Does Random Measurement Error Systematically Bias Econometric Estimation?

• Original Title: 变量的随机测量误差如何影响估计结果？
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• Themes: Measurement Error, Classical vs. Non-Classical Errors, Attenuation Bias, OLS Bias
• Core Intuition:
  An econometric breakdown of classical vs. non-classical measurement errors in dependent and independent variables, drawing insights from Wooldridge (2010) and Goldin & Rouse (2000, AER).

Is Economics More Like Physics or Chemistry? Methodological Reflections on the Semi-Empirical Paradigm

• Original Title: 经济学更像物理还是化学？
• Link: Read Original Article (Chinese)
• Themes: Epistemology, Physics Envy, Semi-Empirical Paradigm, Market Design
• Core Intuition:
  A methodological reflection on “physics-envy” in mainstream economics. Drawing inspiration from chemical engineering (as advocated by Alvin Roth), I reflect on why economics thrives best as a semi-empirical discipline—anchoring itself on foundational micro-axioms while leveraging empirical flexibility to tackle real-world market complexities.

From Tacit Knowledge to Epistemic Privilege: Deconstructing the “Default” in Public Knowledge

• Original Title: 从隐性知识，看见叙事背后的认知特权：你所以为的“常识”并不是真的“常识”
• Link: Read Original Article (Chinese)
• Themes: Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge, Epistemic Privilege, Gendered Defaults, Knowledge Sampling, Pluralism, Philosophy of Science
• Core Intuition:
  Drawing on Michael Polanyi’s distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge, I explore how narrative power institutionalizes cognitive privileges. I examine how dominant perspectives become the unmarked “universal default,” potentially making public knowledge systematically unrepresentative of heterogeneous lived experience. I consider pluralism not simply as demographic balance, but as expanding the range of experiences represented in knowledge production.