Rema Hanna

Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-315
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 26
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-1140
Fax: 617-496-5747
Email: Rema_Hanna@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Gabriel Scheffler (617-495-8674)
Rema Hanna

Profile

Rema Hanna is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Hanna is an NBER Research Associate, an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and an affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Her research focuses on understanding how to improve the provision of public services in developing countries. She is currently working on a project to measure discrimination in education in India, and also analyzing data from a field experiment that assessed the efficacy of various targeting methodologies for social safety net programs.

Prior to joining the Kennedy School, Hanna was an assistant professor of public policy and economics at New York University. She holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and a BS from Cornell University.

Courses

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Duflo, Esther, Michael Greenstone, and Rema Hanna. "Indoor Air Pollution, Health and Productivity." Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society 1 (February 2008): 1-9.
    • Bertrand, Marianne, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan. "Corruption in Driving Licensing Process in Delhi." Economic and Political Weekly 43.5 (February 2, 2008).
    • Duflo, Esther, Michael Greenstone, and Rema Hanna. "Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Rural Orissa." Economic and Political Weekly 43.32 (August 9, 2008).
  • Book Chapters
    • Hanna, Rema, Simeon Djankov, Marianne Bertrand, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Petty Corruption in Public Services: Driving Licences in Delhi." Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2008. Eds. Dieter Zinnbauer and Rebecca Dobson. Oxford University Press, 2008, 342-344.
  • Op-Eds
    • Mullainathan, Sendhil, Rema Hanna, Marianne Bertrand and Sudha Krishnan. "Reservations: Gains At A Cost." Wall Street Journal, India, April 14, 2008.
    • Hanna, Rema. "Can Improved Stoves Improve Health?" India Express, May 12, 2009.
    • Hanna, Rema, and Leigh Linden. "Do Teachers Discriminate Against Minorities in India?" Vox.org, September 1, 2009.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Hanna, Rema, and Leigh Linden. "Measuring Discrimination in Education." NBER Working Paper 15057, June 2009.
  • Reviews
    • Hanna, Rema. Review of When Things Fall Apart, Journal of Economic Literature, 47.2, June 2009.