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Yana Gallen

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Yana Gallen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2016. She is a labor economist studying the gender wage gap. Her research focuses on understanding the sources of the gender pay gap—preferences, discrimination, or productivity? She is also interested in the impact of family friendly policies on the labor market, particularly looking at indirect or unanticipated effects of policy reforms. Many of her projects use Danish register data linking workers and firms. Her current work focuses on the savings and career decisions of household before they know their preferences concerning child-rearing.

Yana Gallen

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Yana Gallen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2016. She is a labor economist studying the gender wage gap. Her research focuses on understanding the sources of the gender pay gap—preferences, discrimination, or productivity? She is also interested in the impact of family friendly policies on the labor market, particularly looking at indirect or unanticipated effects of policy reforms. Many of her projects use Danish register data linking workers and firms. Her current work focuses on the savings and career decisions of household before they know their preferences concerning child-rearing.

Michael Greenstone

Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics; Director, EPIC; Director, Becker Friedman Institute
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School, as well as the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. Greenstone’s research is largely focused on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality and society’s energy choices. His current work is particularly focused on testing innovative ways to increase energy access and improve the efficiency of environmental regulations around the world. Additionally, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change as a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab. He also created the Air Quality Life Index that provides a measure of the gain in life expectancy communities would experience if their particulates air pollution concentrations are brought into compliance with global or national standards.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

Michael Greenstone

Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics; Director, EPIC; Director, Becker Friedman Institute
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School, as well as the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. Greenstone’s research is largely focused on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality and society’s energy choices. His current work is particularly focused on testing innovative ways to increase energy access and improve the efficiency of environmental regulations around the world. Additionally, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change as a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab. He also created the Air Quality Life Index that provides a measure of the gain in life expectancy communities would experience if their particulates air pollution concentrations are brought into compliance with global or national standards.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

Louise Hawkley

Principal Research Scientist
Academic Research Centers
Phone: (773) 256-6214

Louise Hawkley is a principal research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors, particularly loneliness and social isolation, in explaining individual differences in health and well-being in older adulthood. Her current work on the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Prior to her position at the NORC, she was Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago where she was an investigator on NIA-funded studies of loneliness and its antecedents and consequences in middle to older adulthood. She was also a co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial funded by the Department of the Army to evaluate the effects of a social resilience intervention on Soldiers’ job performance and health outcomes. She has given invited lectures and panel presentations for academic and service institutions in Spain, Hungary, France, England, as well as the United States. Hawkley is a member of the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America

Louise Hawkley

Principal Research Scientist
Academic Research Centers
(773) 256-6214

Louise Hawkley is a principal research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors, particularly loneliness and social isolation, in explaining individual differences in health and well-being in older adulthood. Her current work on the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Prior to her position at the NORC, she was Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago where she was an investigator on NIA-funded studies of loneliness and its antecedents and consequences in middle to older adulthood. She was also a co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial funded by the Department of the Army to evaluate the effects of a social resilience intervention on Soldiers’ job performance and health outcomes. She has given invited lectures and panel presentations for academic and service institutions in Spain, Hungary, France, England, as well as the United States. Hawkley is a member of the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America

Joshua Gottleib

Associate Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Joshua Gottlieb is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research in applied microeconomics focuses on the economics of the health care system, including the organization of insurance markets, physician behavior, administrative costs, and implications for labor economics. Gottlieb also conducts research in public finance more broadly, including urban and health economics. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gottlieb has published in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Labor Economics. He won the 2015 Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the 2012 National Tax Association Dissertation Award for this work.

Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He was instrumental in developing and promoting a novel property tax scheme, which influenced housing policy in British Columbia.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

Joshua Gottleib

Associate Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Joshua Gottlieb is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research in applied microeconomics focuses on the economics of the health care system, including the organization of insurance markets, physician behavior, administrative costs, and implications for labor economics. Gottlieb also conducts research in public finance more broadly, including urban and health economics. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gottlieb has published in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Labor Economics. He won the 2015 Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the 2012 National Tax Association Dissertation Award for this work.

Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He was instrumental in developing and promoting a novel property tax scheme, which influenced housing policy in British Columbia.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

Alycia Bayne

Principal Research Scientist
Public Health
Phone: (202) 999-0992

Alycia Infante Bayne is a principal research scientist in the Public Health Research Department. Bayne has 15 years of experience in program evaluation and qualitative research methods. She has expertise in primary data collection and analysis. She has collected data in communities across the country, using site visits, interviews, focus groups, and surveys. Her evaluation findings have informed state and federal health programs and policies. Her research areas include public health, aging and health, transportation as a social determinant of health, rural health, and health equity.
Bayne leads research on aging and health at NORC. She is the project director for a study for the CDC Foundation, with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to identify the needs and concerns of older adults and their caregivers during public health emergencies such as COVID-19. Bayne also leads evaluations of community-based healthy aging programs for the YMCA of the USA. She also conducts the evaluation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health’s work to advance health equity in Medicare.

Bayne also directs a portfolio of work exploring the intersection of transportation and health. She led a three-year study for the CDC Center for Injury Prevention and Control to identify the barriers and facilitators of older adults’ use of ride share services. For the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Bayne conducts a project to identify countermeasures to address drowsy driving, and she completed a study to identify evidence-based practices for traffic safety campaigns. She also led a study on access to transportation in rural communities for the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, and currently directs a pilot impact assessment of the CDC’s Injury Control Research Centers.

Bayne has served in a leadership role on numerous cross-site evaluations of community-based initiatives, including an assessment of community health coalitions after federal funding has ended for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, an evaluation of the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health program for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an evaluation of the Advancing System Improvements to Support Targets for Healthy People 2010 Program for the Office on Women’s Health, and an evaluation of the 330A Outreach Authority programs for the Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

Bayne served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board Committee on the Safe Mobility of Older Persons. She is also a member of the Health New Jersey 2030 Advisory Council, which advises the selection of topic areas, objectives, and target-setting methodology to monitor health promotion and disease prevention interventions in the state.

Bayne has presented evaluation findings to federal agencies as well as task forces such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy Weight Task Force and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. She has also presented widely at conferences including those sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and AcademyHealth. Bayne is a silver award recipient of the Mather Institute’s Innovative Research on Aging Awards for CDC research on transportation and aging.

Alycia Bayne

Principal Research Scientist
Public Health
(202) 999-0992

Alycia Infante Bayne is a principal research scientist in the Public Health Research Department. Bayne has 15 years of experience in program evaluation and qualitative research methods. She has expertise in primary data collection and analysis. She has collected data in communities across the country, using site visits, interviews, focus groups, and surveys. Her evaluation findings have informed state and federal health programs and policies. Her research areas include public health, aging and health, transportation as a social determinant of health, rural health, and health equity.
Bayne leads research on aging and health at NORC. She is the project director for a study for the CDC Foundation, with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to identify the needs and concerns of older adults and their caregivers during public health emergencies such as COVID-19. Bayne also leads evaluations of community-based healthy aging programs for the YMCA of the USA. She also conducts the evaluation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health’s work to advance health equity in Medicare.

Bayne also directs a portfolio of work exploring the intersection of transportation and health. She led a three-year study for the CDC Center for Injury Prevention and Control to identify the barriers and facilitators of older adults’ use of ride share services. For the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Bayne conducts a project to identify countermeasures to address drowsy driving, and she completed a study to identify evidence-based practices for traffic safety campaigns. She also led a study on access to transportation in rural communities for the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, and currently directs a pilot impact assessment of the CDC’s Injury Control Research Centers.

Bayne has served in a leadership role on numerous cross-site evaluations of community-based initiatives, including an assessment of community health coalitions after federal funding has ended for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, an evaluation of the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health program for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an evaluation of the Advancing System Improvements to Support Targets for Healthy People 2010 Program for the Office on Women’s Health, and an evaluation of the 330A Outreach Authority programs for the Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

Bayne served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board Committee on the Safe Mobility of Older Persons. She is also a member of the Health New Jersey 2030 Advisory Council, which advises the selection of topic areas, objectives, and target-setting methodology to monitor health promotion and disease prevention interventions in the state.

Bayne has presented evaluation findings to federal agencies as well as task forces such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy Weight Task Force and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. She has also presented widely at conferences including those sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and AcademyHealth. Bayne is a silver award recipient of the Mather Institute’s Innovative Research on Aging Awards for CDC research on transportation and aging.