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Mattias Doepke is the Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History whose research deals with topics in economic growth and development, political economy, and monetary economics. Recently, Doepke has worked on theories of demographic change, family economics, the role of political and cultural change in economic development, and redistributional effects of inflation. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, and an associate editor of the American Economic Review.

Nancy Qian is the James J. O'Connor Professor at Kellogg MEDS and the founding director of China Lab, a part of Northwestern's Global Poverty Research Lab. Her research provides empirical evidence for a set of core questions in development economics that broadly fall into four sub-categories: demography and development, geography and development, institutions and development and culture and development. Professor Qian's work includes extensive analysis of survey data, as well as historical data and field experiments. A recurring theme in in her research is to understand the difference between short and long-run effects, and endogenous responses to economic incentives.