Maripier Isabelle is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Université Laval and holds the Sentinel North Research Chair in Economics and Brain Health. She is also a researcher at the CERVO Research Centre, a member of the Centre for Research on Risk, Economic Issues and Public Policy and an affiliate of the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. D. in Economics from the University of Toronto and did postdoctoral work at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality at INSEAD in France.

Her research interests include guiding the evaluation and implementation of public policy. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of health economics, brain health, labor economics and social inequality. Among other things, she studies the causal links between changes in income distributions, physical and mental health trajectories and human capital accumulation. She also works to isolate the impact of changes in individuals' relative and absolute income on their physical and mental health, health care consumption and socioeconomic mobility. Her research also contributes to a better understanding of the impact of different financial incentives and price signals on the allocation of resources within health care systems, on physician behavior and labor supply, and on the nature and volume of care provided to patients.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2008, Markus Poschke is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, his research interests are in macroeconomics broadly, in particular inequality, taxation, growth theory, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, structural change, and the macroeconomics of labour markets.

He received the Bank of Canada's Governor's Award in 2018. Institut universitaire européen

Gema Zamarro (Ph.D. Economics, CEMFI & UNED, Madrid (Spain), 2006) is a Professor in Education Reform and Economics at the University of Arkansas and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality at the Department of Education Reform. Dr. Zamarro is also adjunct Senior Economist at the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR). Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, Zamarro was a Senior Economist at CESR (2013-2014), an Economist at the RAND Corporation (2007-2013; Adjunct Economist 2013-2016) and Professor of Econometrics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy (2007-2013), as well as, assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a junior research fellow at NETSPAR (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) (2005-2007). Dr. Zamarro has performed research on applied econometrics in the areas of education and labor economics. She has completed studies on heterogeneity in returns to education, on the relationship between teacher quality and student performance, on the effect of school closing policies on student outcomes, on the properties of value-added methods for estimating teacher quality, on the effect of dual-language immersion programs on student outcomes, and on the causal effect of retirement on health, among others. Her current research focuses on the measurement and development of character skills, determinants of gender gaps in STEM, the study of teacher labor markets and teacher pensions, and gender and education impacts of the current COVID-19 crisis. Dr. Zamarro’s work has been featured numerous times in the media including Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post of Chicago, Chalkbeat, NPR, Scientific American, CBS news, 4029News, Telemundo, KUAF radio, KTLA news, Kqed, EL Pais, Oregorian, and Arkansas Democrat Gazette, among others.