Mary Namubiru is a Field Supervisor at BRAC Independent Evaluation and Research Cell, Uganda. She holds her Masters in Quantitative Economics from Makerere University. Her current research areas are in labour economics focusing on youth unemployment in Uganda and in education promoting Early Childhood Development through play based methodology in the Playlab centers.

Sara Spaziani is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Brown University, interested in public, gender, and development economics. Her work focuses on the design of social insurance programs and on labor market inequalities.