1. Colleen M. Heflin () is a professor of public administration and international affairs and a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, in New York.
2. Samuel J. Ingram is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington.
3. James P. Ziliak is the Carol Martin Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics in the Department of Economics, University of Kentucky.