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About...Our Staff |
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Nada Eissa, Ph.D. |
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Curriculum Vitae |
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Dr. Nada Eissa is one of four senior research associates working on the School Choice Demonstration Project. She is also an
Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University currently on leave serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy (Microeconomic Analysis)
at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, Professor Eissa has done
research in the area tax and transfer policy, evaluating the effects of policy reforms on individual behavior (labor supply, marriage, consumption)
and the implications of behavioral responses for program design. Her work has been widely cited, and has been featured in articles and reports in The New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Worth Magazine and Scientific American. Her dissertation “Tax and Transfer Policy and Female Labor Supply”
(Harvard University) was awarded the National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation in 1995. In addition to this project,
Professor Eissa is currently working on research focusing on tax-transfer policy, examining the impact of the composition of the labor supply response (between labor force
participation and hours worked) on the welfare evaluation of tax reforms. Eissa has also served as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at the
University of California at Berkeley, an economist at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute, a National Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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