Hyejin Ku serves as Associate Professor of Economics at University College London and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), with additional affiliation as Project Leader at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin). Her research program centers on labour economics and applied microeconomics, with recent investigations into how incentive structures and workplace policies influence productivity trajectories, career advancement patterns, and inequality dynamics. She has produced significant empirical work on immigration economics and has recently expanded her focus to knowledge creation mechanisms and technology diffusion processes, particularly examining China's growing role in global scientific production. Publication trends reveal consistent contributions to migration and gender economics, including analyses of refugee integration policies in Denmark, gender norm impacts on labor supply using Vietnamese export shock data, and educational structures like single-sex schooling. Her 2025 work demonstrates continued leadership in studying China's scientific rise and its implications for knowledge production networks. No scientific awards were referenced in the source material. Details regarding student supervision, grant funding, or advisory roles were not provided in the available text. Through her leadership positions at CReAM and RFBerlin, Ku actively shapes research agendas on migration economics and future-of-work challenges, directing collaborative projects that bridge academic analysis with policy-relevant insights.
Jean Lacroix is an Associate Professor at Université Paris-Saclay specializing in political economy and economic history, with additional affiliations as Research Fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles and Research Associate with DIAL. His international engagement includes recent visiting positions at CESifo (May 2025) and prior fellowships at University of Cambridge, Paris School of Economics, and ENS Lyon. His research explores two interconnected agendas: 1) The political economy of war (focusing on WWII France's collaboration networks and long-term societal impacts) and 2) Technology-institution interactions (analyzing how 19th-century innovation shaped political organizations through patent text analysis). This work combines novel historical datasets with rigorous microeconometric methods , particularly difference-in-differences approaches. His recent publication trends reveal increasing sophistication in causal identification within historical contexts, moving beyond descriptive analysis to examine mechanisms like 'indirect connections' in elite survival. The research spans political economy, economic history, and innovation studies with strong methodological rigor. ANR POLECOWWII project: Investigating WWII's long-term effects on trust/voting behavior ANR TECHNOFIRMS project: Analyzing historical patent texts to understand innovation-institution dynamics Professor Lacroix maintains active advising relationships through his ANR-funded projects, providing students with opportunities for archival research, dataset construction, and international collaboration. His lab leverages partnerships with European research centers for comparative historical analysis.
Juan Pantano is a Professor at the HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong, conducting research at the intersection of economics and social policy. His research portfolio spans: Health Economics: Medicare fraud analysis, fertility treatments, and reproductive health policy Labor Economics: Human capital formation, school performance, and life-cycle labor supply Public Economics: Tax compliance, social security, and legal policy evaluation Demography: Fertility dynamics, sex ratios, and household decision-making Professor Pantano employs rigorous structural modeling and causal inference methods to address policy-relevant questions, with recent work increasingly focusing on longitudinal life-cycle perspectives. His publication pattern demonstrates sustained scholarly impact through consistent output in top-tier journals. His active research agenda includes 10+ working papers on clinical trials, early childhood interventions, and obesity economics, indicating robust funding support and collaborative networks. As a senior faculty member, he provides mentorship opportunities for graduate students interested in empirical economic research with real-world policy applications.
Karine Lamiraud is a full Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School, France, where she has held faculty positions since 2010, progressing from Assistant to Associate to full Professor. She concurrently serves as Full Professor of the Innovation and Health Chair (2016-2026) and Co-Academic Director of the Executive Master in Strategy and Management of Health Industries. Her academic affiliations extend to membership in THEMA research center at University of Cergy-Pontoise and multiple visiting professorships at Stanford University (2014, 2019, 2022), Harvard University, and University of Lausanne. Her educational foundation includes dual Ph.D. degrees in Economics from University of Lausanne and Paris School of Economics (2004), an M.A. in Economics from Paris School of Economics (1998), and dual M.Sc. degrees in Management from HEC Paris and International Management from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (1997) through the CEMS program. Ph.D. in Economics, University of Lausanne & Paris School of Economics (2004) M.A. in Economics, Paris School of Economics (1998) M.Sc. in Management, HEC Paris (1997) M.Sc. in International Management, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (1997) Lamiraud's research program investigates critical intersections between economic theory and health system functionality. She examines how insurance market structures affect consumer behavior, particularly how supplementary insurance creates switching barriers in basic health plans. Her work on medical technology diffusion analyzes the causal relationship between payment reforms like DRG financing and diagnostic technology adoption, while her HIV adherence research reveals bidirectional relationships between treatment success and continued adherence. Recent publications increasingly explore behavioral dimensions, including gender composition effects on team decision-making using experimental business simulations. Her 15 most recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on European health systems (particularly Swiss and French contexts), with methodological strengths in microeconometric analysis of administrative data and experimental approaches. Key thematic clusters include insurance market competition (38% of recent work), technology adoption dynamics (27%), and behavioral health economics (35%), frequently appearing in top journals like Health Economics , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , and Health Policy . Her research impact is recognized through significant awards and funding: WILEY Best Paper Award in Health Economics (2009) Fulbright Fellowship and Swiss National Science Foundation grants (2005-2008) ANR-funded LySAIRI cancer research project (2021) Continuous grant support since 2005 from major European funders As an educator, she teaches core health economics courses at ESSEC while directing executive education for health industry leaders. Her academic service includes co-editing Health Economics journal and serving on the International Health Economics Association's Arrow Award Committee. She maintains active research collaborations across institutions including Stanford University, Harvard University, and Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, positioning her at the nexus of European health policy research and global academic networks.
Barbara Boelmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, a YEP Fellow of ECONtribute, and a researcher at the Research Data Centre Ruhr of the RWI. She is affiliated with C-SEB, the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224, and IZA. As of November 2024, she holds an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics by the Joachim Herz Foundation. Her educational background includes a PhD from University College London and CReAM (2022), an MSc in Economics, and a BA in Economics and Chinese Studies, all from the Ruhr-University Bochum. Dr. Boelmann is an applied labour economist specializing in inequalities in education and on the labour market with a focus on gender inequalities. Her research examines how regions shape these inequalities through local institutions, culture, and power dynamics. She employs applied microeconometric methods to understand the structural factors underlying inequality on the labour market. Her work spans cultural determinants of maternal labor supply, educational mobility, student finance impacts, and political representation. Her publication portfolio demonstrates strong expertise in gender economics, with significant media coverage in the New York Times, The Independent, and major German publications. Her research on cultural determinants of maternal labor supply following German reunification has particularly influenced policy discussions. Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics by the Joachim Herz Foundation Award for MSc teaching at UCL (2019) Dr. Boelmann actively supervises undergraduate and graduate theses while teaching 'Gender Economics' for MSc students, seminars on 'Women in the Labour Market' and 'Educational Inequalities over the Life Cycle,' and leading a PhD Reading Group on 'Econometrics.' She co-founded the Gender Economics Teaching Network to share teaching resources across institutions. She organizes ECONtribute's Reinhard Selten Equal Opportunity Talk Series (ReStart) to communicate research to the public and has presented her work to policymakers through the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Her science communication includes Science Slam presentations and podcasts on gender norms and labor market inequality.
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker is a Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn's Department of Economics. He holds multiple prestigious research positions including Research Team Leader (Structural Policy Evaluation) at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics), and is a Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, Netspar, and MEA-MPISOC. He also serves as a Cluster Faculty Member at ECONtribute, Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Center TR/224, and Speaker of the Transdisciplinary Research Area 'Individuals, Institutions and Societies'. His educational background includes studying Economics at Mannheim and Heidelberg, completing his doctorate in Economics in 2007 at the University of Mannheim. His primary research interests focus on modeling life-cycle behavior of households and informing public policy to reduce inequality, with particular expertise in applied microeconometrics, labor and health economics. His publication record demonstrates strong engagement with contemporary economic challenges, particularly the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, household financial decision-making, and labor market dynamics. His work spans both theoretical econometric modeling and practical policy analysis. As an educator, he teaches Applied Microeconomics (PhD/MSc), Applied Data Analytics (BSc), Effective programming practices for economists (PhD, MSc), and Public Finance and Social Policy (BSc). He has developed educational software to improve research reproducibility and emphasizes computational techniques alongside economic theory in his teaching. His research methodology heavily utilizes modern computing infrastructure, and he has created software tools to help researchers maintain reproducibility of results, addressing what he identifies as a significant challenge in contemporary economic research.
Patrick Arni is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol's School of Economics, specializing in empirical public policy analysis and applied microeconometrics with applications in digital transformation, labor markets, education, health, and social policy. Education: PhD in Economics from HEC Lausanne PhD program at Swiss National Bank Study Center Gerzensee Master's degree from University of Zurich Additional studies at University of Geneva Visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center of Labor Economics Visiting scholar at Tilburg University His research centers on labor economics and policy evaluation , with growing emphasis on digital transformation's impact on skill demand . Methodologically, he employs applied microeconometrics , duration models , and field experiments to analyze job search behavior, unemployment insurance design, and belief formation. A distinctive focus examines how overconfidence and social interactions influence economic outcomes like labor market participation and health behaviors. Recent work reveals two dominant trends: 1) Increasing integration of digital transformation with labor economics to study skill demand dynamics using big data from job vacancies, and 2) Continued refinement of labor market policy evaluation through natural experiments examining benefit sanctions, job search requirements, and counseling effectiveness. Research Grants: NRP 77 "Digital Transformation": The Swiss labour market in the digital transformation (SWISSLAB) [2020-2024] Field Experiments to Optimise Public Employment Service Counselling [2019-2024] Dr. Arni leads the SWISSLAB project constructing large-scale job vacancy databases using text mining and machine learning to analyze digital transformation's labor market effects. He designs field experiments for Switzerland's Public Employment Service and maintains an IZA Research Affiliate status (since 2010) with prior Research Associate role (2011-2016).
