Janet Currie: Inequality at Birth: Consequences for Human Capital Formation

Henry Putnam Professor of Economics & Public Affairs, Princeton University

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public
Affairs at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton’s Center
for Health and Well Being. She also directs the Program on Families and
Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has served on
several National Academy of Sciences panels including the Committee on
Population, and was elected Vice President of the American Economics
Association in 2010. She has also served as a consultant for the
National Health Interview Survey and the National Longitudinal Surveys
and on the advisory board of the National Children’s Study. She is a
Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, an affiliate of the
University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center, and an affiliate of
IZA in Bonn. She is the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has also served several other journals in an editorial capacity including the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.  

Her research focuses on the health and well-being of children.
She has written about early intervention programs, programs to expand
health insurance and improve health care, public housing, and food and
nutrition programs. Much of this research is summarized in “The
Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation’s Poor Children and
Families”, Princeton University Press. Her current research focuses on
socioeconomic differences in child health, and on environmental threats
to children’s health from sources such as toxic pollutants.