Agustina Paglayan is Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where she specializes in comparative politics, political economy, and the political causes and consequences of education policies. She is also a Non-Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. Paglayan studies what motivates politicians to provide more access and/or better quality education, as well as the long-term repercussions of education policy choices. She uses original datasets spanning long periods of time to study these issues in developing and developed countries, especially in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Her work has received several awards, has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and other outlets, and has been featured in the media. During 2020-21, she was the Founding President of the American Political Science Association’s Education Politics and Policy Section. ​​

Recent Publications:

Paglayan, A. (2022). The Historical Political Economy of Education. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, edited by Jeffery Jenkins and Jared Rubin. Advance online publication.

Paglayan, A. (2022). Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building. American Political Science Review, 116(4): 1242-1257.

Paglayan, A. (2021).The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years. American Political Science Review, 115(1): 179-198.

Paglayan, A. (2019). Public-Sector Unions and the Size of Government. American Journal of Political Science, 63(1): 21-36.

Daphna Bassok is an Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and Associate Director of Ed PolicyWorks, a collaboration between the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Her research addresses early childhood education policy, with a particular focus on the impacts of policy interventions on the well-being of low-income children. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator on a project supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to examine Louisiana's efforts to overhaul their early childhood education system. She recently received a National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work examining changes in parenting practices over time and their impact on the early emergence of achievement gaps. Other recent projects have explored changes in the early childhood teacher labor force over time and the impacts of Florida's Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten program. 

Recent Publications:

Bassok, D., Magouirk, P., & Markowitz, A. J. (2021). Systemwide Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education: Evidence From Louisiana. AERA Open, 7.

Bassok, D., Markowitz, A. J., Bellows, L., & Sadowski, K. (2021). New Evidence on Teacher Turnover in Early Childhood. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 43(1), 172–180.

Weixler, L., Valant, J., Bassok, D., Doromal, J. B., & Gerry, A. (2020). Helping Parents Navigate the Early Childhood Education Enrollment Process: Experimental Evidence From New Orleans. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 42(3), 307–330.

Markowitz, A. J., Bassok, D., & Grissom, J. A. (2020). Teacher-Child Racial/Ethnic Match and Parental Engagement With Head Start. American Educational Research Journal, 57(5), 2132–2174.

Robert N. Eberhart is Visiting Associate Professor of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a visiting professor at Kobe University and a research associate at Columbia University.  His research interests focus on theories of institutional change and the role of institutions on new venture performance.  Eberhart's academic publications have appeared in journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, and the Journal of Asian Business Studies.

Eberhart was a member of the board of directors of DynEd, Inc., the Japan Society of Northern California, the Japan Innovation Network, and iPive, Inc. He is also an academic advisor to Japan's Board of Director's Training Institute and the academic advisor to the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers football team.  He was also the vice-chair of the U.S. Department of State and the Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade, and Industry’s joint commission on bilateral entrepreneurship. He was also an academic advisor to the American Chamber of Commerce's Task Force on New Growth Strategies. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Institute of New Economic Theory, and the International Society for New Institutional Economics.

Recent Publications:

Eberhart, R. (forthcoming). Review of The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer (eds.). Administrative Science Quarterly.

Eberhart, R., & Armanios, D. (2021). Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications. Organization Science, 33(2), 746-765 

Eberhart, R. N., Barley, S., & Nelson, A. (2022). Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Entrepreneurialism and the Changing Nature of Employment Relations. In R. N. Eberhart, M. Lounsbury, & H. E. Aldrich (Eds.), Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives (Vol. 81, pp. 13–41). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Eberhart, R. (2020). Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia by Kathryn C. Ibata‐Arens. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, (2019). Political Science Quarterly, 135(3), 538-539.

Barbara Kiviat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. She is an economic sociologist who studies how moral beliefs and other cultural understandings shape markets and justify the inequalities they produce. She is particularly interested in how normative ideas influence the pricing and allocation of socially important resources, such as insurance, credit, and jobs. Her current project considers how these dynamics play out when corporations use massive amounts of personal data to decide what to offer to individual consumers. She mostly uses qualitative methods, but also works with survey data and vignette experiments.

Kiviat’s research has received awards or funding from the American Sociological Association, the National Science Foundation, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and other groups. Her work has been published in American Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Sociological Science, Socius, and other journals.

Recent publications:

Kiviat, B. (2021). Which Data Fairly Differentiate? American Views on the Use of Personal Data in Two Market Settings. Sociological Science,(8), 26-47.

Kiviat, B. (2019). Credit Scoring in the United States. Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter, 21(1), 33-42.

Kiviat, B. (2019). The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from How Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions. Socio-Economic Review,17(2), 283-309.

Kiviat, B. (2019). The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores. American Sociological Review, 84(6), 1134–1158.

Shahzad Ansari is Professor of Strategy in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include: institutional processes and diffusion of practices; social and environmental issues, technological and management innovations; value creation and new market development; offshoring and outsourcing; reputation management; and bottom-of-the-pyramid strategies.

Ansari has published in leading academic journals including, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Inquiry, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. He is a member of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and a Fellow of St Edmunds College, Cambridge. His areas of expertise in executive education include strategic management, technological and business model innovation, social innovation, and corporate social responsibility. He has contributed to executive education programs in many organizations.

Recent publications:

Hein, P., & Ansari, S. (2022). From Sheltered to Included: the Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization. Academy of Management Journal, 65(3): 749-783.

Rauch, M. and Ansari, S. (2022). Waging War from remote Cubicles: How Workers Cope with Technologies that disrupt the Meaning and Morality of their work. Organization Science, 33(1): 83-104.

Khanagha, S., Ansari, S., Paroutis, S. & Oviedo, L. (2022). Mutualism and the Dynamics of New Platform Creation: A Study of Cisco and Fog Computing. Strategic Management Journal, 43(3): 476-506.

Munir, K., Ansari, S. & Brown, D. (2021). From Patañjali to the ‘gospel of sweat’: yoga’s remarkable transformation from a sacred movement into a thriving global market. Administrative Science Quarterly, 66(3): 854-899.

Prashant Loyalka is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses on examining/addressing inequalities in the education of children and youth and on understanding/improving the quality of education received by children and youth in multiple countries including China, India, Russia, and the United States. He also conducts large-scale evaluations of educational programs and policies that seek to improve student outcomes.

Recent publications:

Bettinger, E., Fairlie, R., Kapuza, A., Kardanova, E., Loyalka, P., & Zakharov, A. (2022). Diminishing Marginal Returns to Computer-Assisted Learning. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Advance online publication.

Moon, K., Bergemann, P., Brown, D., Chen, A., Chu, J., Eisen, E. A., … Cohen, J. (2022). Manufacturing Productivity with Worker Turnover. Management Science. Advance online publication.

Loyalka, P., Shi, Z., Li, G., Kardanova, E., Chirikov, I., Yu, N., Hu, S., Wang, H., Ma, L., Guo, F., Liu, O. L., Bhuradia, A., Khanna, S., Li, Y., & Murray, A. (2022). The Effect of Faculty Research on Student Learning in College. Educational Researcher, 51(4), 265–273.

Moon, K., Loyalka, P., Bergemann, P., & Cohen, J. (2022). The Hidden Cost of Worker Turnover: Attributing Product Reliability to the Turnover of Factory Workers. Management Science, 68(5), 3755–3767.