Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director of the China centers of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI-China) and the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago (EPIC-China). His research interests span the fields of development economics, environmental economics, and political economy, with a regional focus on China. He holds a BA from Peking University, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Harris, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics and Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) at the University of Chicago.

Yukiko Asai is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy.  Prior to joining Harris, Yukiko was a Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor) at Waseda University, Japan, a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo and a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer in Labor Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Her research and teaching areas are in labor economics and personnel economics, with particular focus on the effects of family leave and child care policies.

Prof. Sah has previously held faculty positions, in business, economics, and public policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. Among the honorary positions that he has held are at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he presently is Distinguished Fellow, and at the Ministry of Finance Japan.