Professor Lisa Cameron is the James Riady Chair of Asian Economics and Business in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and Program Director of the Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific group at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne. She is an empirical micro- and development economist whose research examines issues of social welfare and poverty with a focus on the welfare of disadvantaged groups, including women. Her work on gender inequality includes research on the relationship between cash transfers and domestic violence; the consequences of criminalising sex work; a body of work on gender inequality in the Indonesian labour market; the consequences of child marriage and determinants of maternal mortality in Indonesia; and most recently an evaluation of an online intervention designed to influence gender norms around women’s work. She has contributed to the development of the gender equality programs at international agencies such as the World Bank and for Australia’s international aid program.

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Her research has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, including Science and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been featured in media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist and Time Magazine. She is an Affiliated Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.  She received her PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1996.

Donna Ginther is the Roy A. Roberts & Regents Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the University of Kansas faculty, she was a research economist and associate policy adviser in the regional group of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 2000 to 2002 and taught at Washington University from 1997 to 2000 and Southern Methodist University from 1995 to 1997. Her major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, science policy, and investments in children.

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Dr. Ginther has published in several journals, including Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Demography, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and the Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Association.  She has also received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  Her research has been featured in several media outlets including the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, and the Boston Globe.

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Dr. Ginther testified before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education of the U.S. House of Representatives on the Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2008 and the Working Group on Women in the 21st Century Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives.  She has also testified before the Kansas Legislature on several occasions about social safety net and tax policy.  Dr. Ginther has advised the National Academies of Science, the National Institutes of Health, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on the diversity and future of the scientific workforce. She is currently Vice President of the Southern Economic Association and previously served on its Board.  She is a member of the American Economic Association Committee on Equity, Diversity and Professional Conduct and previously served on the Nominations Committee and the Board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

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A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Ginther received her doctorate in economics in 1995, master's degree in economics in 1991, and bachelor of arts in economics in 1987, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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You can read more about Donna Ginther's career at:

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• http://emilytaylorcenter.dept.ku.edu/wod-1011/bios/donna-ginther.shtml

• https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=562

Jessica Pan is an Associate Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She received a Bachelor’s in economics from the University of Chicago, followed by an MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

 

Jessica’s research focuses on applied topics in labor economics and the economics of education. Her recent work focuses on gender differences in labor market and educational outcomes; international migration and the labor market effects on source and host countries; and topics in labor economics such as discrimination, marriage markets, and the returns to education. Her work has been published in several leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

 

She currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. She is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and Secretary of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labor Economics (AASLE).