Yann Algan received his Ph.D. from Universite La Sorbonne. He was visiting scholar at MIT and Harvard before becoming Professor of economics at Sciences Po. His main research is devoted to cultural economics and social capital.


Alberto Bisin is Fellow of the NBER, IGIER at Bocconi University, CESS at NYU, and CIREQ at the Universite de Montreal. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994.His main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics.


Alan Manning is Director of the Community Programme within the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. His main area of research is labour economics including the study of immigrants.


Thierry Verdier holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is Professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and Research Director at the EHESS. He is a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (London). His main research areas are devoted to Cultural Economics, Political Economy, and International Trade.

Mariya Aleksynska, CEPII
Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Alberto Bisin, New York University
Amelie Constant, DIW DC
Andreas Georgiadis, London School of Economics
Pierre Kolher, HEI
Camille Landais, University of California, Berkeley
Alan Manning, London School of Economics
Lena Nebky, Stockholm University
Olga Nottmeyer, DIW Berlin
Francesc Ortega, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Eleonora Patacchini, University of Rome
Sara de la Rica, Universidad del Pais Vasco
Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics
Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics
Jacob Vigdor, Duke University
Klaus Zimmermann, IZA