Contributors

Guido Schreurs

Professor in Geology, University of Bern

Professor in Geology, University of Bern I have worked as a geologist in many parts of Madagascar for over 25 years, leading several field-based research projects. During these visits, I became fascinated by the human settlement of the island and I have been involved in different archaeological projects for over ten years now.

Gunn-Helen Moen

Post-doctoral research fellow in genetic epidemiology, The University of Queensland

Post-doctoral research fellow in genetic epidemiology, The University of Queensland I was awarded my PhD on the "Genetic and environmental etiology of glucose metabolism and cardiometabolic traits during pregnancy and in later life" in 2019 from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. After finishing my PhD, I was awarded a Mobility/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the Research Council of Norway and as part of that fellowship I spent two years as a visiting academic at the University of Queensland. I am currently an ARC DECRA fellow at Institue for Molecular Bioscience at University of Queensland. My research focus is on using genetics to investigate the possible causal effects of maternal environmental exposures during pregnancy on offspring outcomes.

Gertjan Verdickt

Lecturer, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Lecturer, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau I am an Assistant Professor of Finance (Lecturer) at the University of Auckland. In 2019, I earned my Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the University of Antwerp, with research stays at several universities such as the Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Notre Dame, and Columbia Business School. I have previously been an assistant professor at KU Leuven and a visiting lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Monash Business School. My academic journey has fueled a passion for financial history, coupled with empirical asset pricing and wine economics. As an assistant editor at the Financial History Review, I actively contribute to the scholarly discourse in these fields. My dedication to advancing knowledge is reflected in publications in renowned academic journals, including Explorations in Economic History, the Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Empirical Finance. My insights also reached a broader audience, with features in notable newspapers such as Bloomberg, De Tijd, HLN, and Financial Times.

Glenn Savage

Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne Glenn C. Savage is a policy sociologist with expertise in education reform, federalism, intergovernmental relations and global policy mobilities. He is an Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling at the University of Melbourne the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. His recent book, ‘The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy’ (Routledge 2021), provides a detailed history of schooling reform in the Australian federation. Glenn began his career as a music journalist, after which he became a secondary English teacher and worked in diverse school settings in Australia and England. Motivated by a desire to examine the politics of educational inequality, he pursued an academic pathway, which led him to develop a critical interest in how knowledge and evidence are used in wide-scale system reform. He currently leads an Australian Research Council project that is examining ways to improve intergovernmental collaboration between governments in relation to national education reforms.

Gabriel Lade

Associate Professor of Economics, Macalester College

Associate Professor of Economics, Macalester College Professor Lade’s research broadly focuses on the need for and efficiency of environmental policies in the energy and agricultural sectors. Recent research projects include studying how gasoline stations’ market structure impacts pass-through of subsidies for high-blend ethanol fuels; the impacts and efficiency of natural gas flaring restrictions on oil producers in North Dakota; and the effects of air pollution on visitation at U.S. National Parks. Ongoing work includes studies of the Flint water crisis on local housing markets and avoidance expenditures; impacts of hurricanes on gas gouging behavior; and impacts of behavioral interventions on residential water demand in drought-prone Southern California. Professor Lade has advised several state and federal agencies and his research has been funded by sources including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Resources for the Future, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. He teaches Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis and Industrial Organization. BA: Economics and International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2009 MA: Economics, Rutgers University, 2011 PhD: Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2015

Grace McCormack

Postdoctoral researcher of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California

Postdoctoral researcher of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California I'm an applied economist working in the fields of public and health economics. I work as a postdoc at the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center and am also currently a visiting scholar at the University of Utah Department of Population Health Sciences in Salt Lake City. My work largely focuses on understanding competitive forces in insurance markets. Many of my current projects focus on provider networks in Medicare Advantage. In ongoing projects, I characterize enrollee valuation of primary care providers in Medicare Advantage, study how adverse selection incentives impact mental health network formation, and evaluate regulatory determinants of hospital network composition. I also have ongoing work studying employer preferences in the employer-sponsored insurance market. My past work touches on topics in Medicaid and the ACA exchanges. I graduated in 2022 from the economics track of the Harvard Kennedy School PhD program where I was an NBER Predoctoral Fellow in Health Economics.