Sarah Bohn is vice president and director of the PPIC Economic Policy Center and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where she holds the John and Louise Bryson chair in policy research. She is also a member of the PPIC Higher Education Center. As the founding director of the PPIC Economic Policy Center, she leads research and engagement to inform California policymaking to support greater opportunity and upward mobility for workers, families, and businesses statewide. A labor economist, her research focuses on the job market, workforce skills, and the role of education and government programs in upward mobility. Her other areas of expertise include immigration policy, poverty measurement, income inequality, and career technical education. Her work has been published in major academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Demography, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. Previously she served as vice president of research at PPIC. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

David Neumark is distinguished professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He has previously held positions at the Federal Reserve Board, the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University, and the Public Policy Institute of California, where he currently serves as an adjunct fellow. He is a research associate at the NBER, IZA, and CESifo, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has made research contributions in numerous areas of labor economics that intersect with important public policy issues. His research on labor market discrimination has opened up new methods of measuring discrimination. He was one of the original contributors to the “new minimum wage research,” helping to pioneer the use of state-level minimum wage variation to estimate minimum wage effects. In related work, he was the first to assemble data and explore methods to study the effects of city living wage laws, as well as contributing to understanding the political economy of these laws. He has also worked in urban economics and public finance, studying the effects of place-based policies such as enterprise zones and opportunity zones, and authoring an extensive survey of these policies in the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. He has also done extensive work on hiring credits, including evaluation of new ‘next generation’ economic development incentives. In addition to his research, he is actively engaged with policymakers and the policy community through briefings, op-eds, and legislative testimony.