John Komlos is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Economic History at the University of Munich. He has also taught at Duke University, Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Vienna. He received PhDs in both history and economics from the University of Chicago. Komlos founded the field of Economics and Human Biology with the journal of the same name in 2003. He is among the very few scholars to publish in major journals of five disciplines: economics, history, biology, statistics, and demography. His work has been cited extensively around the globe.

Inas R. Kelly is Associate Professor of Economics at Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is a research associate in the Health Economics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and has been co-editor of Economics and Human Biology since January 2013. She has published extensively in the field of health economics.

Brian A'Hearn is a Fellow and Tutor in Economics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Jason A. Aimone is an assistant professor of economics at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University

Harold Alderman is Social Protection Advisor, Africa Region at the World Bank.

Susan L. Averett is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Jörg Baten is a professor of economic history in the Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Tuebingen, coeditor of Economics and Human Biology

Jere R. Behrman is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prashant Bharadwaj is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego.

Matthias Blum is a lecturer in economics at Queen's University Belfast Management School.

Leah Platt Boustan is an assistant professor of Economics at UCLA and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Baltica Cabieses is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad del Desarrollo - Clínica Alemana, Chile

Scott A. Carson is a professor of economics in the College of Business and Engineering, University of Texas, Permian Basin

Gregory Colman is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Pace University and a Research Economist of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Dalton Conley is Dean of Social Sciences and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University

Lee Craig is Department Head, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor in the Department of Economics, North Carolina State University.

Dhaval Dave is the Stanton Research Professor in the Department of Economics, Bentley University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Elizabeth Frankenberg is a professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Ricardo Godoy is a Professor of International Development, Brandeis University

Jane Greve is a senior researcher at KORA, the Danish Institute for Local and Regional Governmental Research

Kalle Hirvonen is an Associate Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Institute

Jessica Ho is a Research Scientist in the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Population Research Institute (DuPRI) at Duke University

Daniel Houser is Chairman and Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University.

Olaf Hübler is professor emeritus of econometrics at the Institute for Empirical Economics at the Leibniz University of Hannover

Inas R. Kelly is an associate professor of economics at Queens College of the City University of New York, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Co-Editor of Economics and Human Biology

John Komlos, Professor Emeritus, University of Munich

Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild is the head of the Anthropology Working Group at the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Darius N. Lakdawalla is associate professor in the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and Director of Research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

Steven Lehrer is an Associate Professor of Economics at NYU Shanghai and Associate Professor, School of Policy Studies and Department of Economics, Queen's University (Canada)

Moramay López-Alonso is an associate professor of history, Rice University

Robert A. Margo is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics, Boston University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Chad D. Meyerhoefer is an associate professor of economics, Lehigh University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Alexander Moradi is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Sussex.

Anja Moss is research associate and study coordinator in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Interdisciplinary Obesity Unit at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Ulm University.

Avner Offer is Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Emeritus

Deborah Oxley is Professor of Social Science History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow

Kate Pickett is professor of epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, England

Julian Reif is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics in the College of Business and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lorenzo Rocco is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padova (Italy)

Alan D. Rogol is Professor Emeritus (Pediatrics and Pharmacology) at the University of Virginia

Asher Rosinger, University of Georgia

David E. Sahn is the International Professor of Economics, and Director, Cornell University Food and Nutrition Policy Program (CFNPP), Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Economics, Cornell University and an IZA Research Fellow

Daniel Jong Schwekendiek is an Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University

Karri Silventoinen, Senior lecturer in demography, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

Richard H. Steckel is SBS Distinguished Professor of Economics, Anthropology, and History at the Ohio State University and a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Dejun Su is an Associate Professor I the Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health and Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities College of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Duncan Thomas is the Norb F. Schaefer Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Global Health and Public Policy in the Department of Economics, Duke University and Development Program Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Florencia Torche is a Professor of Sociology, NYU

Tom S. Vogl is Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University and a Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a
Faculty Affiliate, Bureau for the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)

Martin Wabitsch is the head of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Interdisciplinary Obesity Unit at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Ulm University.

Yang Wang is an assistant professor of economics, Lafayette College

W. Peter Ward, Professor of History Emeritus , University of British Columbia

George Wehby is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Public Health and is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Richard G. Wilkinson is Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, England

Sven E. Wilson is a professor of political science and an adjunct professor, Department of Economics, Brigham Young University and Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Muzhe Yang is an associate professor, Department of Economics, Lehigh University

Jay L. Zagorsky is an economist and Research Scientist at The Ohio State University.

"[T]he book effectively discusses and illustrates some of the main challenges in economics and human biology. I would recommend this book to any reader who is interested in economics and human biology, although, this book is especially interesting for researchers who plan to conduct research in this field." --Journal of Economic Literature