Research Expertise and Interest

labor and employment, economic policy, education

Research Description

Na’ama Shenhav is an economist who studies labor market inequality and policy solutions. Her work has implications for the design and expected benefits of policies around voter rights, wage subsidies, means-tested offers of pre-school admission, and immigration. Shenhav’s research has been published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics, among other venues. It has also attracted interest from the media and policymakers, including citations in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and briefs to the Supreme Court. She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of California, Davis, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Goldman School, she was a senior economist at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College.