Charles Ballard is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He has been on the faculty at MSU since 1983. Much of his research involves using computer simulation models to assess the efficiency and distributional effects of policy instruments, such as income taxes, consumption taxes, tariffs, wage subsidies, credits for health insurance, and environmentally motivated taxes. He has served as a consultant with the US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Treasury, and with research institutes in Australia, Denmark, and Finland.
Isabella Bakker is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at York University. Her books include The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy; Rethinking Restructuring; and Power, Production and Social Reproduction (with Stephen Gill). Her work has focused on the effect of macroeconomic policy on women, especially in the industrialized world. She has consulted widely for OECD governments and the United Nations and has served as a major advisor to the UNDP Human Development Report.
Kate Bezanson is Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and Equity Studies. She is currently researching the gendered dimensions of social capital for public policy and has recently been awarded a multi-year grant to study the effects of work-life policies on households. She has published in the areas of social reproduction and welfare state restructuring. Her research interests include gender, social policy, political economy, and development. She is a board member of the Centre for Social Justice in Toronto and a board member of the Rosalind Blauer Childcare Centre.
Raisa B. Derber, PhD, teaches in the Department of Health Administration at the University of Toronto, with cross-appointments to the Department of Political Science, the Institute of Medical Science, the Department of Occupational Therapy, and the Department of Physical Therapy. Professor Derber is a past President of the Canadian Health Economics Research Association and is an expert on the public-private mix in healthcare. She has an esteemed publication record and holds research grants from various provincial, national, and international bodies. She is currently focusing her research on health politics and policy, medical decision-making, and Canadian public policy.
Evelyn L. Forget is Professor of Economics in the Department of Community Health Services, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba. Her work has been funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research as well as by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Professor Forget's research interests include the demand for health services as a lifetime risk and the implications of healthcare utilization patterns for appropriate health system funding and management.
Lindy H. Ingham has spent much of her career working with economic and social statistics. Her main areas of interest have been in the early developmental work for Australia of a framework for environmental accounting, development of statistics on unpaid work, and development of a novel treatment for artistic originals in Australia. She possesses considerable experience in the compilation of national accounting statistics, social indicators, and gender statistics. She is currently working in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on health expenditure statistics.
Marianne Johnson is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She has been on the faculty since 2001. Her research is concerned with the tax treatment of nonprofit organizations and the history of public economics. She will serve as a Fulbright Scholar to Estonia in 2005.
Jean Kimmel is Associate Professor of Economics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is a labor economist whose research interests include childcare, welfare-to-work, employment-related health and disability issues, and multiple-job holding. New research projects include a study of the wages of childcare workers and the motherhood wage penalty. Her research papers have appeared in Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, Labour Economics, Southern Economic Journal, and Industrial Relations. Prior to joining the faculty at WMU in August 2001, she was Senior Economist at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employement Research, where she was a researcher for twelve years.
Lynn Lethbridge has been a researcher in the Department of Economics at Dalhousie University, Canada, for over ten years. Her research interests include child health and well-being, poverty and inequality, and gender-related issues. She is currently working on quality care indicators for breast cancer patients and international comparisons of maternity/parental leave policy.
Elaine McCrate is on the faculty of the Economics Department and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Vermont. She has done work on teenage childbearing, welfare, wage differentials between black and white women, and livable wages. She is currently working on a project on the racial gap in workplace autonomy.
Martha MacDonald is Professor of Economics at Saint Mary's University, Canada, where she is also active in the Women's Studies program. Her research interests include gender and restructuring, social security policy, and globalization. She has published recently on unemployment insurance reform, and rural restructuring and women's well-being. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, and she co-edited the special issue on globalization.
Julie A. Nelson is Senior Research Associate with the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (1996), co-editor of Beyond Economic Man (1993) and Feminist Economics Today (2003), co-author of Microeconomics in Context (2003, 2005), and author of many journal articles. Nelson holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has held several posts including Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California-Davis.
Sarah Newman is PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University. She completed a Master of Science in Political Science and a Diploma in Democratic Administration from York University. She obtained her BAH from Queen's University with a major in Political Studies and a minor in Women's Studies. Her research interests include the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa, Third World feminist theory, and critical development studies.
Shelley Phipps is Maxwell Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 1987. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of Canadian children, the implications of women's paid and unpaid work for women's health, international comparisons of social policy, poverty and inequality, and decision-making within families. Phipps is married with three children, currently ages 7, 9, and 12 years.
Leslie L. Roos PhD, is Director of the Population Health Research Data Repository at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba. He has used administrative data to measure health status and has written about healthcare outcomes in the US and Canada, population-based health trends, population-health and health services research capabilities, and public sector preventive care to the less affluent, expansion of Canadian databases and research techniques, the influences of nonmedical factors on health, and the use of the Internet to increase researcher-to-researcher communication.
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, India, and Trinity College in Cambridge, UK. He has also served as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Delhi University and at the London School of Economics. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, developmental economics, and moral and political philosophy.
Almudena Sevilla-Sanz is currently a research analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. She received her PhD in Economics from Brown University in May 2004. Her dissertation examined the relationship between gender roles and demographic developments across developed countries, with a focus on lowest–low fertility countries. Her current research deals with Social Security reform and other fiscal policy issues. A more detailed description is available on her website: http://www.econ.brown.edu/∼asanz.
Julie P. Smith is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Formerly a senior economist in Australian and New Zealand treasuries, she has a PhD in Economics, and has published two books (Taxing Popularity and Gambling Taxation in Australia) and in journals across several disciplines (Food Policy, Australian Economic Review, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Australian Economic History Review, Urban Research and Policy, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health) on public finance and health issues. She is a policy adviser to the Australian Council of Social Services and director on the board of a national women's nonprofit organization. She is currently researching a book on the economics of mothers' milk.
Randy Walld is Systems Analyst with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba. He holds a BSc in Statistics and a BComm(Hons) in Operational Research from the University of Manitoba. For the past twelve years, Mr. Walld has provided SAS programming support for numerous projects relating to healthcare utilization and socio-economic factors, and he currently maintains LINKS, a set of SAS macros developed at the Centre for performing probabilistic record linkage. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife Monique and son Michael.