Prof. Onur Altindag is an associate professor of Economics at Bentley University. He completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2016, and was a bell postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies before joining Bentley. His research focuses on population health, public policy, and social protection, particularly in designing and evaluating effective policies within these domains.

Prof. Jane Greve completed her Ph.D. at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, in 2008, and is now a professor with special responsibilities at VIVE—the Danish Center for Social Science Research and IZA research fellow. Her primary research interests are in population health, health economics, and the economics of risky behaviors. In recent years, her research has focused on the economic consequences of being overweight and obesity, life circumstances for persons with severe mental disorders, including dementia, and the effects of public policies and programs designed to change health behaviors.

Prof. Erdal Tekin is the Fotis Family Distinguished Professor of Health Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2001. His primary research interests are in health economics and the economics of risky behaviors and crime. Within these fields, he has worked on a wide range of questions on the determinants of risky health behaviors, delinquency, and crime, as well as the effect of public policies and programs designed to reduce the prevalence of these behaviors and the costs associated with them. Aside from his primary research interests, he has also studied various aspects of the U.S. childcare market.