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Prabhu Pingali

Prabhu Pingali is a professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, with a joint appointment in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and the founding director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). Prior to joining Cornell, he was the deputy director of the Agricultural Development Division of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, from 2008 to May 2013.

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Zhuan Pei

Zhuan Pei joined the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University in July 2015 as an assistant professor. In his research, he investigates the effect and design of social and employment programs and studies applied micro-econometric methods in causal inference. Prior to Cornell, he was a postdoctoral economist at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research from 2012 to 2013 and an assistant professor of economics at Brandeis University between 2013 and 2015.

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Sean Nicholson

Sean is a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) at Cornell University, the Director of the Sloan Program inHealth Administration, and aResearch Associateat the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the PAM Department in 2004, Sean was a faculty member in the Health Care Systems Department at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Sean worked for four years as a management consultant with APM and taught high school for two years before enrolling in graduate school. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1986 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997.

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David Ng

David Ng is a Professor of Finance at Cornell. He served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2010 and a Research Fellow at Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He conducts research in empirical asset pricing. In particular, he studies fund flows and examines how fund flows affect asset prices domestically and internationally. He also conducts research on implied cost of capital and its applications in finance. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University.

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Douglas Miller

I am a micro-economist, with research interests in social policy. I am especially interested in policies that impact demographically and economically vulnerable populations. I am also interested in the relationship between the economic environment and health outcomes. Finally, my research works to build and expand the econometric toolkit used to answer social science and public policy questions.

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Josue Sanchez

Josué Sánchez: 'I conducted my own research project in the Dominican Republic'

Josué Sánchez​ Economics Union City, NJ

Why did you choose Cornell? It is gorge(ou)s! As a first-generation student, having a traditional on-campus undergraduate experience was one of my top priorities. The tree-covered, picturesque Arts Quad further complemented by the Greek-inspired pillars supporting Goldwin Smith Hall felt like a movie scene – one I wanted a role in! Of course... the academics also drew me in.

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Students find creative ways to retool summer plans

Destiny Malloy ’21 had a sweet internship lined up this summer near New York City, working in data analytics at L’Oreal. After COVID-19, it was converted to unpaid and remote. Adam Spaulding-Astudillo ’20 was in interviews for a job using his degree in ecology and evolutionary biology, but companies stopped hiring.

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Alan Mathios

Alan Mathios is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. He served as Dean of Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology from 2007-2018.He recently served seven years (2014-2020) as a Commissioner for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Prior to being dean he served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Education for the College of Human Ecology. He was a member of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) which recently became part of the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. He served as Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for PAM. He is co-editor of theJournal of Consumer Policyand on the Editorial Boards of theJournal of Consumer Affairsand theJournal of Public Policy and Marketing. He came to Cornell following six years of employment at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where he served as a staff economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis and was recognized with the Outstanding Scholarship Award, the Excellence in Economics Award, and the Award for Superior Service to the FTC.He has been the recipient of a number of teaching and advising awards including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Cornell University Kendal S. Carpenter Advising Award.

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Michael Lovenheim

Michael Lovenheim is a Professor of Economics in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the ILR School as well as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution.His research areas are labor economics, public finance, and the economics of education, with a particular focus on the interplay between education systems and the labor market. Recent education papers examine the effect of state higher education funding on long-run educational and financial outcomes, the effect of college major choices on student earnings, how college major choices affect gender and racial earnings inequality, the labor market returns to college coursework, the productivity of for-profit colleges, and the impact of teachers unions on school districts and students. Non-education projects include a series of papers on how housing wealth affects key household investment decisions, such as collegiate attainment, fertility, child health, healthcare spending, and wealth transmission across generations, understanding the relationship between worker skills and labor market power, and how the skill content of private sector union coverage has changed over time. In 2017, he co-authored (with Sarah Turner) the first comprehensive textbook on the Economics of Education.Lovenheim received his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2007 and joined Cornell in 2009 after two years as a Searle Freedom Trust Post-doctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. From 2018-2023 he served as the Donald C. Opatrny ’74 Chair of the Department of Economics at Cornell. He currently is a co-editor at the Journal of Human Resources and is the inaugural Director of the Cornell Center for Education Policy and Workforce Development. The Center studies policies that align the skills taught to students and workers with the skills needed in the labor market by building partnerships with state governments to expand data infrastructure and conduct research on policies of high priority to state policymakers.

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Crocker Liu

Crocker H. Liu is the Robert A. Beck Professor of Hospitality Financial Management and a professor of real estate at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. He previously taught at New York University’s Stern School of Business (1988-2006), where he was the associate director of real estate, and more recently at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business (2006-2009), where he held the McCord Chair in addition to being the director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.

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Merrill Scholars near and far honor their teachers, mentors

As a first-generation college student whose family – refugees from Indonesia – arrived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he was only a year old, Malikul Muhamad ’20 credits his teachers and professors with helping him chart a successful course through uncertainty and new experiences.

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Shanjun Li

Shanjun Li is an associate professor of environmental and energy economics and sustainable enterprise in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and a faculty research fellow at NBER. He serves as the co-director of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research. His research areas include environmental and energy economics, empirical industrial organization and Chinese economy. His research goal is to improve public policy making through understanding the impacts of public policies and efficient policy design.

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Social sciences center awards COVID-19 grants

As the coronavirus pandemic escalated in the United States, reports of bias and hostility against immigrants and Asian Americans also grew. New research supported by a rapid response grant from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) will study public attitudes about COVID-19 across the country and whether they are linked to increased social bias regionally or nationally.

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Harry Kaiser

Harry M. Kaiser teaches and conducts research in the areas of price analysis, marketing, industrial organization, policy, and quantitative methods. He is also the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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Vrinda Kadiyali

Professor Kadiyali's research is on firms' competitive strategies. She uses econometric models of game theory to study firm competition. She has published in leading marketing and economics journals like Marketing Science, Management Science, Rand Journal of Economics, and Journal of Econometrics. She has served on editorial boards and refereed for several leading marketing and economics journals and organizations. She currently teaches the Strategy core in various programs. Previously, she taught courses on Internet marketing, channels of distribution, marketing models, as well as several PhD courses.

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David Just

Dr. David R. Just received his PhD (2001) and MS (1999) degrees in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA (1998) in Economics from Brigham Young University. He is currently a professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. In addition he serves as co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs.

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Thomas Jungbauer

Professor Thomas Jungbauer is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Business Economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He applies economic theory to study welfare implications of allocation mechanisms like auctions or platforms in two-sided economies with prices. In addition, he is interested in the strategic effects of lying and misrepresentation in these markets. While his research primarily focuses on high-skill labor markets, his analyses extend to questions of industrial organization and entrepreneurship.

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Justin Johnson

Justin Johnson received his PhD from MIT and is currently a Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. He teaches Business Strategy to the School's MBA and Executive MBA students. He has worked with eCornell (a Cornell University subsidiary) and also Fortune magazine to develop web-based learning opportunities in business strategy.

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