Janet M. Currie | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Canadian and American |
Academic career | |
Field | economics of children, labour economics, family economics, health economics |
Institutions | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Alma mater | University of Toronto, Princeton University |
Doctoral advisor | Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Angus Deaton |
Doctoral students | Lucia Nixon, Marianne Bitler, Matthew Neidell, Leah Brooks, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Anna Aizer, Graciana Rucci, Graciela Teruel, Luis Rubalcava, John Fahr, Pia Orrenius, Rosemary Hyson, Chien-Liang Chen, Benjamin Bolitzer, Yan Lee, David Zulli, Hsinling Hsiao, Wanchuan Lin, Eliana Garcés Tolón, Nancy Cole, Steven Rivkin, Ninez Ponce, Mehdi Farsi, Emilia Simeonova, Johannes Schmeider, Joshua Goodman, Reed Walker, Muhammad Asali, Cecilia Machado, Katherine Meckel, Jessica Van Parys, Maya Rossin-Slater, Valentina Duque, Mariessa Hermann, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Ayako Kondo, Laura Nolan, Diane Alexander, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, David Slusky, Dan Zeltzer, Molly Schnell, Jenny Shen, Emily Cuddy, Rachel Anderson, Chris Mills, Anastasiya Karpova, Jessica Min, Patrick Agte |
Other notable students | Hannes Schwandt (postdoctoral fellow), Anna Chorniy (postdoctoral fellow), Esmee Zwiers (postdoctoral fellow), Adriana Corredor-Waldron (postdoctoral fellow), Jonathan Xia Zhang (postdoctoral fellow), Hui Ding (postdoctoral fellow), Boriana Miloucheva (postdoctoral fellow), Duncan Webb (postdoctoral fellow), Anna Miloucheva (postdoctoral fellow) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing.[1] She was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association. She served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at Princeton from 2014–2018.[2] She also served as the first female Chair of the Department of Economics at Columbia University from 2006–2009.[3] Before Columbia, she taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was named one of the top 10 women in economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015.[4] She was recognized for her mentorship of younger economists with the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economics Association in 2015 and also participated in the founding and evaluation of the AEA’s mentoring program for junior faculty.[5][6]