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 | |
Alma mater | University of Toronto, Princeton University |
Doctoral advisor | Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Angus Deaton |
Doctoral students | Anna Aizer, Diane Alexander, Emily Cuddy, Joshua Goodman, Ayako Kondo, Wanchuan Lin, Cecilia Machado, Katherine Meckel, Chris Mills, Matthew Neidell, Pia Orrenius, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Maya Rossin-Slater, Johannes Schneider, Molly Schnell, Emilia Simeonova, David Slusky, Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Reed Walker, Jessica Van Parys, Dan Seltzer |
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 is 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]
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