Martha Bailey is an Associate Professor of Economics and a Research Associate Professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bailey’s recent projects focus on evaluating the shorter and longer-term consequences of Great Society programs, and include her recently co-edited book Legacies of the War on Poverty.
 

Kenneth Chay is a Professor of Economics and Community Health at Brown University, as well as a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Among his most cited work is his study on how Civil Rights legislation impacted African American infant mortality in Mississippi. Chay has won several awards for his work, including an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and a Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association.
 

Greg Duncan is an economist and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He currently serves as chair of a National Research Council/Institute on Medicine Committee on child research, and serves on the board of directors for many national research committees. In 2013, he was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. Duncan’s recent research charts the relative importance of early academic skills, cognitive and emotional self-regulation, and health in promoting children’s eventual success in school and in the labor market.
 

David E. Frisvold is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa. His research has been published in leading economics and health policy journals and has been funded by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His research focuses on childhood obesity, soft drink taxes, early childhood education, school quality, and food assistance programs.
 

Thesia Garner is a Senior Research Economist in the Division of Price and Index Number Research with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, where she has served since 1984. Garner holds a Ph.D. in Consumer Economics from the University of Maryland and an M.A. from Purdue University. 

Kent Germany is an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is a co-founder and co-editor of www.whitehousetapes.org and a co-host of For The Record, a PBS interview program on politics and history. His most recent book is New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, which examines poverty and racism in the forty years before Hurricane Katrina.
 

Chloe Gibbs is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education at the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy as well as the Curry School of Education. She is an affiliated researcher with UVa’s Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Her recent research examines the impact of the federal Head Start program.
 

Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics, and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Research Affiliate for the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research and is co-editor of the leading journal in economics, American Economic Review. She specializes in the study of poverty, inequality, and the impacts of government tax and transfer programs on low income families.
 

Douglas Miller is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, a Faculty Affiliate of the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research and a Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research examines the impact of economic forces, social policy, and the environment on health.

 

Sean Reardon is a Professor of Education and Sociology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Quantitative Education Policy Analysis. He has been a recipient of a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, a Carnegie Scholar Award, and a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research investigates the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality.
 

Sarah Reber is an Associate Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her health economics research examines competition in health insurance markets. Her research in education focuses on the effects—intended and unintended—of school desegregation, the Civil Rights Act, and Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act represented.
 

Maya Rossin-Slater is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her honors include a Columbia Population Research Center Fellowship and a Columbia University Economics Department Presidential Fellowship. Her research focuses on issues in maternal and child well-being, as well as family structure and behavior, and draws implications for addressing the needs of disadvantaged populations in the United States.
 

Diane Schanzenbach is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy, and a Faculty Fellow with Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and serves as Visiting Scholar for Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Her recent research investigates the impact of school accountability policies like the Federal No Child Left Behind Act and school reform policies on student performance and other outcomes.
 

James Sullivan is an Associate Professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, and a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan. His research examines the consumption, saving, and borrowing behavior of poor households in the U.S., and how welfare and tax policy affects the well-being of the poor. His research has been supported by grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
 

Gavin Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His books include Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (2013) and Slavery and American Economic Development (2006). His current research interests include the economics of the Civil Rights revolution in the American South.