Janet Currie

Janet Currie

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing and the NBER Children's program. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health and access to health care, environmental threats to health, the role of mental health, and the long-run impact of health problems in pregnancy and early childhood.