Professor Ebonya L. WASHINGTON

Professor Ebonya L. WASHINGTON – Vice-President of The American Economic Association – AEA, 2024. The Laurans A. and Arlene Mendelson Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Statement of Purpose: As the 2019 AEA Climate Survey makes clear, economics is too often an unwelcoming profession even for those of us with many years of experience as insiders. I have been involved with many mentoring programs aimed at helping underrepresented people reshape themselves to survive in economics’ hostile environment. These programs are important and necessary, but wholly insufficient. If economics has any hope for future relevance as society’s conversations and concerns diversify, it’s the profession that needs to change. I’m running for office to work from the inside to widen the perspectives and perceptions of the leaders and gatekeepers of this profession. As my co- authored qualitative work in the 2020 JEP makes clear, continuing on with the status quo means that good ideas and good people will continue to be lost from our ranks.

Previous and Present Positions: Laurans A. and Arlene Mendelson Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 2022–; Co-Director, Political Economy Program, NBER, 2021–; Samuel C. Park Junior Professor of Economics, Yale University, 2018–22, previously Full/Associate/Assistant Professor, Yale University, 2004–18; Research Associate (previously Faculty Research Fellow), NBER, 2004–; Post- Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003–04. Degrees: Ph.D. in Economics, MIT, 2003; B.A. with honors in public policy, Brown University.

Publications: “Political Alignment, Attitudes toward Government and Tax Evasion” (with Cullen and Turner), AEJ: Economic Policy, 2021; “How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx and Native American People in the Economics Profession” (with Bayer and Hoover), JEP, 2020; “Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate” (with Kuziemko), AER, 2018; “Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations” (with Ashok and Kuziemko), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2015; “Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965” (with Cascio), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014; Does Less Income Mean Less Representation?” (with Brunner and Ross), AEJ: Economic Policy, 2013; “Do Majority-Black Districts Limit Blacks’ Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting,” Journal of Law and Economics, 2012; “The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses” (with Hastings), AEJ: Economic Policy, 2010; “Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes” (with Mullainathan), AEJ: Applied Economics, 2009; “Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’s Issues,” AER, 2008; “How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006.

AEA Offices, Committee Memberships, and Honors: Co-Chair, Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, 2018– (member, 2014–16); JEP Editor Search Committee, 2020; Editorial Board, AEJ: Economic Policy, 2019–; Associate Editor, JEP, 2017–22; AEA Program Committee, 2016.

Other Affiliations and Honors: Society Fellow, elected 2021; American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, elected 2021; NBER Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy Steering Committee, 2020–; Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014–; Foreign Editor, Review of Economic Studies, 2014–20; Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013–17; National Science Foundation Economics Advisory Panel and Ad Hoc Reviewer; National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2010–15.

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