J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and Fellow of the AAEA and AAAS. His research focuses on modeling impacts of development policies on households and local economies in poor countries, international migration, labor, and natural resource conservation.

Travis J. Lybbert is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on topics ranging from poverty dynamics, risk, innovation and technology adoption to nutrition, microfinance, and hope and aspirations.