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.
16 Facts About Janet Currie
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Janet Currie was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association.
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Janet Currie was named one of the top 10 women in economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015.
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Janet Currie was recognized for her mentorship of younger economists with the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economics Association in 2015 and participated in the founding and evaluation of the AEA's mentoring program for junior faculty.
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Janet Currie then pursued graduate studies at Princeton University, where she received a Ph.
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Janet Currie is past president of the Society of Labor Economists, the Eastern Economics Association, the Western Economics Association, and the American Society of Health Economics, and previously served as vice-president of the American Economic Association.
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Janet Currie has served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Labor and Income Statistics for Statistics Canada and as a consultant for the National Health Interview Survey and the National Longitudinal Surveys.
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Janet Currie has served on advisory boards of the National Children's Study, the Committee on National Statistics, the National Academy of Science, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Blue Health Intelligence, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the board of governors of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, and the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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Janet Currie was appointed by the New Jersey state legislature to the board of the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data Project.
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Janet Currie has held various editorial roles for numerous economic peer-reviewed journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Population Economics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.
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Janet Currie is best known for her work on the impact of poverty and government anti-poverty policies on the health and well-being of children over their life cycle.
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Janet Currie has written about early intervention programs, expansions of the Medicaid program, public housing, and food and nutrition programs.
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Janet Currie has investigated broader socioeconomic determinants of fetal and child health, including health care, child maltreatment, nutrition, environmental pollution, and maternal education.
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Janet Currie's work showing that the adoption of EZ-Pass improved infant health in Pennsylvania and New Jersey received wide attention.
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Janet Currie's work on child mental health shows that mental health is a stronger predictor of future outcomes than many common childhood physical health problems and that children's mental health is impacted by early life factors.
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Janet Currie is married to W Bentley MacLeod, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University, and together they have two children.