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John Anderson, the Baird Family Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, serves as the executive director of the Central Plains Research Data Center (CPRDC), located at UNL and part of the federal statistical research data network. He is an expert in housing economics, urban economics, tax policy and public finance. Anderson’s academic research and policy advising have been published in more than one hundred journal articles, books, book chapters, and government reports. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics at Western Michigan University and his Ph.D. in economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is an economist and an adviser to public policymakers in the fields of public finance, fiscal reform, and tax policy. Updated 12/12/23

Jeffrey Stevens heads the Adaptive Decision Making Laboratory in the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research integrates cognitive and evolutionary perspectives to study decision making in humans and other animals. He holds a Ph.D. ecology, evolution and behavior from the University of Minnesota in 2002. He held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and was a research scientist in the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. In one recent study, he examined why some primate species wait for bigger rewards, while others grab what they can get immediately. Another revealed a new way to predict whether humans will pursue immediate gratification or wait for a bigger reward.