“I suspect that (Rouse) will be the person from the council who gets involved in health insurance so I would expect the other two members to be involved in issues related to macroeconomics, taxes and industry,” Danziger adds.
One significant question for many is how the CEA will be utilized, given that the council’s influence has varied from one administration to the next, according to Spriggs.
“The Clinton administration tended to use the CEA as the referee on what was smart economic policy … I don’t know how the Obama administration will use them,” says Spriggs, who served on an Obama transition team for the U.S. Department of Labor.
After earning a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, Rouse joined the Princeton faculty in 1992. Among the wide-ranging topics on which Rouse has published are the economic benefits of community college attendance, the effects of education inputs on student achievement, Florida’s school accountability and voucher programs, and discrimination in symphony orchestras. In 1998 and 1999, Rouse worked for the National Economic Council in the Clinton White House. Her sister, Dr. Carolyn Rouse, is an anthropology professor at Princeton.
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