NBER profile: Ebonya Lia Washington.

Ebonya Washington has been an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in the Programs on Political Economy and the Economics of Children since 2004. She is also the Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University.

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Washington received her BA with honors in Public Policy from Brown University in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2003. She was a Post-Doctoral Lecturer in MIT's Department of Economics in 2003-4. She joined Yale's...