Two NBER research associates to join CEA.

• Position: Bureau News

NBER Research Associates Katherine Baicker and Matthew J. Slaughter will join the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) if confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Baicker, an Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a member of the NBER's Program of Research in Public Economics. She served as a senior economist at the CEA in 2001-2. Baicker received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1998 and previously taught at Dartmouth College.

Slaughter, an Associate...