Ebonya Washington
Ebonya Lia Washington | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | Columbia University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Sendhil Mullainathan Jonathan Gruber |
| Website | ebonyawashington |
Ebonya L. Washington is the Laurans A. and Arlene Mendelson Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a professor of public and international affairs. She is also a National Bureau of Economic Research Faculty Research Fellow in the Programs on Political Economy and the Economics of Children. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.
Her research focuses on the political economy of low-income and minority constituents and the processes through which low-income Americans meet their financial needs. Several of her papers have been discussed in the popular press. She is associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies.
She was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2021. She was formerly the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University.