Nada Eissa

Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).^[1] She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.^[2]

Nada Eissa
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office August 2005 – July 5, 2007
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Mark Warshawsky
Succeeded by	Ted Gayer
Personal details
Born	1967 (age 57–58) Sudan
Nationality	American
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Website	Faculty website
Academic work
Discipline	Public finance
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Georgetown University
Notable students	Adriana Kugler
Awards	National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation (1995)

Education and early life

Eissa moved to the United States from Sudan at the age of 9. She earned degrees in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and from Harvard University.^[1]

Career

Eissa has been a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the lead academic for the International Growth Centre's programs in South Sudan and Uganda.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.