Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT and founder and director of MIT's Blueprint Labs, a research laboratory based in the MIT Economics department which uses tools from market design and research design to produce rigorous evidence that can help decision-makers design and implement social policy. Pathak is most well-known for his work on the design of student assignment systems and for studies in education. His research has garnered several recognitions, including the John Bates Clark Medal given by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. Pathak is also the founding co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design and a co-founder of Avela Education.

Sara Fisher Ellison is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Economics Department. She was an undergraduate at Purdue University and received graduate degrees from both Cambridge University and MIT. She has been a fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Study and the Hoover Institute. Her recent research has investigated a number of questions in industrial organization, with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry and ecommerce. She serves on a number of editorial boards. She has taught at the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels, and has received awards for both outstanding teaching and pedagogical innovation. To learn more, please click here.

Dr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a Research Associate, and President of the American Society of Health Economists. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has published more than 150 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate text, and Health Care Reform, a graphic novel. In 2006 he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.

Nina Roussille joined MIT’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in July 2023. She is also the Executive Director of the Hub for Equal Representation at the LSE. She received her PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2021, and her research is in the fields of labor and gender economics, with a particular interest for the distributional effects of labor market policies.

Frank Schilbach is an Associate Professor in the MIT Economics Department.  He graduated from Harvard with a PhD in Economics in 2015.
His research agenda explores the relationship between poverty and economic behavior by investigating factors associated with poverty, including mental distress, sleep deprivation, and substance abuse. In a second line of research, he study behavioral barriers to the diffusion of information in developing countries. His work advances a broader research agenda that seeks to integrate insights from psychology and related fields into development economics.
Together with Gautam Rao and Heather Schofield, he helps run the Behavioral Development Lab in India. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and an Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

Tobias Salz is an Assistant Professor of Economics. An alumnus of University of Chicago, University of Bonn, and New York University, Salz previously taught at Columbia University before coming to MIT in January 2019. He works in the field of industrial organization, and his main research interests are platforms, digital markets, transportation, and artificial intelligence. His research often combines theory with new observational data sources or experiments.