Rema Hanna
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
295 Lafayette Street, Room 3046
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-7443
Email: rema.hanna@nyu.edu
- Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005.
- B.S., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1999.
TEACHING
- P11.1011, Statistical Methods for Public, Nonprofit, and Health Management
RESEARCH
Professor Hanna studies the impact of public policy on economic development. Recent work includes a study quantifying the foreign direct investment effects of U.S. environmental regulation, and various randomized experiments in India designed to study the impacts of education policy, corruption, and indoor air pollution.
WORKING PAPERS
- Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School, Joint with Esther Duflo, MIT, NYU, Development Research Institute Working Paper #16. (For a profile of this research, see The Economist, July 2.)
- The Labor Supply Response to Childbirth Across Cultural Groups in Israel
- U.S. Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Based Multinational Firms
- Driving Licenses in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption, Joint with Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago, Simeon Djankov, World Bank, and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University. (For a profile of this research, see The Indian Express, March 11, 2004.)
