NEC Luncheon with Tara Watson,  Director, Center for Economic Security, and Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Date: Thursday, October 31st

Time: 12pm to 1:30pm ET

Location:  Logan Tavern, 1423 P St NW, Washington, DC 20005

Join us for a discussion with Tara Watson of the Brookings Institution on the trends and impacts of immigrant deportations. More details to come.

Please Note: This is an in-person event.

For metro and parking details about the location, please visit the Logan Tavern website.

Please contact the NEC if you have questions at manager@national-economists.org.

About our Speaker:

Tara Watson is an economist focused on U.S. social policy, with interests in the safety net, health, and immigration. She is director of Brookings’ Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. In 2015-16, Watson served as deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Economic Policy. She was previously a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and a research associate at the Princeton Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Dr. Watson earned her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2003. Her 2021 book, ”The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear,” written with journalist Kalee Thompson, was published by University of Chicago Press.

Learn more here: https://www.brookings.edu/people/tara-watson/