About the Authors

Report Authors

Dr. Domonic A. Bearfield is a Professor & Deputy Director at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration at The George Washington University. His research focuses on race, gender, and public sector personnel. His research has appeared in many of the top journals in public administration, including the Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Rutgers University-Newark. He also holds an M.P.A. from the University of Delaware and a B.A. in English from Norfolk State University.

Leah Brooks is the Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies and Associate Professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Her research on political economy as well as public and urban economics has been published in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics and the American Economic Journal of Applied Economics. She graduated with a BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, and a PhD in Economics from UCLA in 2005. Before arriving at George Washington University, she taught economics at the University of Toronto and McGill University, and served as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Ferdinando Monte is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Economics at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, and Affiliated Faculty at the Georgetown University Department of Economics. His research focuses primarily on international economics, economic geography urban economics, and the organization of the firm. His studies have covered, among other things, the impact of international trade on local labor markets and on inequality, models for the evaluation of local policies, consumer mobility, and empirical analysis of firms’ reorganization and growth. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Economic Letters, the Journal of Political Economy, Science, and the Journal of International Economics. His teaching interests at McDonough are broadly in the areas of firm analysis and strategy, predictive analytics, macroeconomics, and international economics. Prior to joining McDonough, Professor Monte worked as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School and as Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Monte has consulted for companies and public institutions in Italy and Switzerland. He holds a PhD and an MA in economics from the University of Chicago, an MSc in economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain, and a BA in economics from Bocconi University in Italy. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Stan Veuger is a Senior Fellow in economics at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a fellow at the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and at Tilburg University. His research has been published in peer-reviewed economic journals, such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has also published commentary in the nation’s top newspapers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. In the Spring of 2022, he was the Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Previously, Stan was a visiting lecturer at Harvard. He received his AM and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Research Assistant

Emma Klinge is a senior at George Washington University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with a concentration in Interdisciplinary Mathematics, and Data Science, along with a minor in Statistics. During her studies, she was awarded the 2024 Ruggles Undergraduate Mathematics Prize and recognized as an Outstanding Academic Achievement Awardee for three consecutive years. Following graduation, she plans to embark on a career in product analytics.