Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and

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and a Research Associate of the

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(NBER). She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.

Education and early life

Eissa moved to the United States from

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at the age of 9. She earned degrees in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and from Harvard University.

Career

Eissa has been a member of the economics faculty at the

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, a visiting scholar at the

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, a visiting scholar at the

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, and the lead academic for the

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's programs in

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and

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. Her early research focuses on the labor supply effects of tax reforms; in recent years she has studied tax compliance in developing countries and evaluating the impact of school finance reforms in the United States on student outcomes.

Selected works

* Eissa, Nada, and Jeffrey B. Liebman. "Labor supply response to the earned income tax credit." The quarterly journal of economics 111, no. 2 (1996): 605–637. * Eissa, Nada, and Hilary W. Hoynes. "Behavioral responses to taxes: Lessons from the EITC and labor supply." Tax policy and the economy 20 (2006): 73–110. * Eissa, Nada, and Hilary Williamson Hoynes. "Taxes and the labor market participation of married couples: the earned income tax credit." Journal of public Economics 88, no. 9-10 (2004): 1931–1958. * Eissa, Nada, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, and Claus Thustrup Kreiner. "Evaluation of four tax reforms in the United States: Labor supply and welfare effects for single mothers." Journal of Public Economics 92, no. 3-4 (2008): 795–816. * Wolf, Patrick J., Brian Kisida, Babette Gutmann, Michael Puma, Nada Eissa, and Lou Rizzo. "School Vouchers and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from W ashington, DC." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32, no. 2 (2013): 246–270.

References

External links

Nada O. Eissa: Is There "Fade Out" Once Students Return to Public Schools?

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyPXLv6n4No Nada Eissa, associate professor of public policy and economics at Georgetown University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and former CEA chairman, join "Squawk Box" to give their reactions to the July jobs report.] 1967 births 21st-century African-American people African-American economists Georgetown University faculty Harvard University alumni Living people Public economists Sudanese economists University of California, Berkeley alumni 20th-century African-American people {{economist-stub