Christian Belzil

Currently research professor at Ecole polytechnique and Associate Professor of Econometrics at Ecole National des Statistiques et des Etudes Economiques (ENSAE) in France. He is born in Canada, and has obtained a M.sc from the University of Montreal and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1990. He has served as Professor of Economics at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and has held visiting positions in Aarhus (Denmark), Gothenburg (Sweden), and the EUI (Florence). He has worked both in Labor Economics and Microeconometrics and has published several papers on the economics of education and human capital, on the effects of Unemployment Insurance on the labor market and on the distinction between unemployment and employed job search. His work has appeared in journals such as Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, European Economic Review and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. 

Hessel Oosterbeek 

Professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. His main fields of interest are economics of education, development economics and impact evaluation. He is currently involved in several field experiments in the Dutch education sector. He has published in a number of leading journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Economics and the American Economic Review.

Ian Walker

Ian Walker was trained at Liverpool and Warwick Universities in the UK in the mid to late 1970’s. He joined the faculty at Manchester University where he spent 10 years as a lecturer, before taking a chair at Keele University where he spent 10 years before moving to Warwick University for a further 10 years as a full professor, and he has only just moved to Lancaster University’s highly regarded Management School.  He has had visiting positions in Arhus University, UNSW in Sydney, and Princeton University in recent years and has spent several periods in advisory positions in government. He is a Research Fellow of the IZA in Bonn, the Geary Institute in Dublin, and the IFS in London, and he is a Fellow of the European Economics Association. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Labour Economics.