Hussain Hadah

Hussain Hadah was a Postdoctoral Scholar at The Murphy Institute's Center for Public Policy Research (CPPR) and the Tulane University Department of Economics from 2023 to 2026. He is a labor, health, and education economist whose research uses causal inference methods, field experiments, and administrative data to evaluate policies and understand economic behavior in contexts such as discrimination, identity formation, peer effects, institutional effectiveness, and public health interventions.

During his fellowship, Hadah's projects examined discrimination in mortgage lending, school admissions, and the role of ethnic perceptions in Hispanic self-identification. His research on school choice and discrimination, supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Social Policy Research Initiative, investigated discrimination in admissions across private, charter, and traditional public schools. 

Hadah's work on how Hispanic surnames affect educational and labor market outcomes was published in the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston and a B.S. in Economics from Arizona State University.

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