Field-Of-Study: Economics

Sanford M. Jacoby is the Howard Noble Professor in UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He also holds appointments in UCLA’s Department of History and its Department of Public Policy. His research uses comparative and historical methods to analyze employers, labor market institutions, and the political economy of labor and corporate governance. He received his Ph.D.

Barbara Wolfe is Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. Her research focuses broadly on poverty and health issues. Current projects examine the effect of expansions in public health insurance on health-care coverage and labor force outcomes;

Halbert White is Chancellor’s Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is one of the world’s leading economists, with particular expertise in econometrics, predictive modeling, and artificial neural networks. He was educated at Princeton University, where he received an A.B. degree and was honored as valedictorian of his class,