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Economist
Ebonya Lia Washington
Alma materBrown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsColumbia University
Yale University
Doctoral advisorSendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Gruber
Websiteebonyawashington.com

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.

Education

Washington received her BA from Brown University in 1995 and her PhD in economics at MIT in 2003.

Research highlights

"Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate" (with Ilyana Kuziemko)

In this paper, Washington and Kuziemko use historical Gallup data on racial attitudes and political preferences to empirically examine why Southern whites left the Democratic party in the second half of the 20th century. This notable political shift has been a central question in Political Economy and has conventionally lead to two competing explanations: (1) Civil Rights caused racially conservative whites to leave the party and (2) economic development in the South made Democratic redistributive policies unattractive. They find evidence that defection among racially conservative whites explains most of the decline in white Democratic identification among Southerners from 1958 to 1980, which lends credence to the Civil Rights attitudes over the economic development hypothesis.

Other selected works

Economics Profession and Race/Ethnicity

Washington became the co-chair on the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP) in 2018. The CSMGEP has a website which hosts minority job candidates in economics, publishes a yearly newsletter titled the Minority Report, and provides links and resources for making the economics profession more diverse. It also runs three programs to increase the representation of Blacks in the profession: a Summer Training Program, a Mentoring Program, and a Summer Economics Fellows Program. Yet, it was reported that in 2016 only 3% of PhD degrees in economics went to Blacks. Washington has written and lectured extensively about the difficulties for African Americans in the economics profession. In October 2020, Washington and her co-chair Gary Hoover, pushed the American Economic Association to implement 5 new programs on diversity including an undergraduate essay prize in honor of Andrew Brimmer, a travel grant for underrepresented minorities, and a seed grant for economics departments to start programs aimed at diversity and inclusion.

References

  1. "Ebonya L. Washington | Columbia | CPRC". cprc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  2. "NBER Reporter: 2012 Number 3 Profiles". www.nber.org. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  3. "New Members". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  4. "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  5. "Support for government help has fallen among those who rely on it most". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  6. "Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  7. Rampell, Catherine; Rampell, Catherine (2016-08-29). "Please don't tell anyone, but tax cheating is about to rise in the U.S." The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  8. Irwin, Neil (2015-04-17). "Why Americans Don't Want to Soak the Rich". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  9. Gordon, Noah. "Having a Daughter Won't Make You Vote Democratic (or Republican)". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  10. "Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows". The Econometric Society. September 22, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  11. "Ebonya Washington named the Park Professor of Economics". news.yale.edu. 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  12. "Ebonya Washington CV" (PDF).
  13. Bayer, Amanda; Hoover, Gary A.; Washington, Ebonya (2020). "How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx, and Native American People in the Economics Profession". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 34 (3): 193–219. doi:10.1257/jep.34.3.193.
  14. "AEA Initiatives for Diversity and Inclusion". American Economic Association. Retrieved 28 Nov 2020.

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