Joyce P. Jacobsen is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University. She is the author of The Economics of Gender, Second Edition (Blackwell) as well as numerous research articles. She has also taught at Rhodes College, Harvard University and Northwestern University.

Gilbert L. Skillman is Associate Professor of Economics. He has also taught at Brown University and spent a term as Research Associate at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala. He has published a number of articles on the economics of employment and organization.