Janet Currie

Janet M. Currie
Born
NationalityCanadian and American
Academic career
Fieldeconomics of children, labour economics, family economics, health economics
Institutions
Alma materUniversity 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]

  1. ^ "Leadership and Affiliates". Center for Health and Wellbeing.
  2. ^ "Currie Named Economics Department Chair". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2018-07-17.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Five Minutes with... Janet Currie". Columbia College Today. 2008.
  4. ^ "10 top women in economics". World Economic Forum. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  5. ^ "Janet M. Currie Recipient of the 2015 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award".
  6. ^ Ginther, Donna K.; Currie, Janet M.; Blau, Francine D.; Croson, Rachel T. A. (December 2020). "Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial". AEA Papers and Proceedings. 110: 205–209. doi:10.1257/pandp.20201121.

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