Janet Currie
Janet M. Currie | |
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Curie at ASSA 2026 | |
| Born | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisors | Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Angus Deaton |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | economics of children, labour economics, family economics, health economics |
| Institutions | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students | Lucia Nixon, Marianne Bitler, Matthew Neidell, Leah Brooks, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Anna Aizer, Graciana Rucci, Graciela Teruel, Luis Rubalcava, John Fahr, Pia Orrenius, Rosemary Hyson, Chien-Liang Chen, Benjamin Bolitzer, Yan Lee, David Zulli, Hsinling Hsiao, Wanchuan Lin, Eliana Garcés Tolón, Nancy Cole, Steven Rivkin, Ninez Ponce, Mehdi Farsi, Emilia Simeonova, Johannes Schmeider, Joshua Goodman, Reed Walker, Muhammad Asali, Cecilia Machado, Katherine Meckel, Jessica Van Parys, Maya Rossin-Slater, Valentina Duque, Mariessa Hermann, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Ayako Kondo, Laura Nolan, Diane Alexander, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, David Slusky, Dan Zeltzer, Molly Schnell, Jenny Shen, Emily Cuddy, Rachel Anderson, Chris Mills, Anastasiya Karpova, Jessica Min, Patrick Agte |
| Notable students | Hannes Schwandt (postdoctoral fellow), Anna Chorniy (postdoctoral fellow), Esmee Zwiers (postdoctoral fellow), Adriana Corredor-Waldron (postdoctoral fellow), Jonathan Xia Zhang (postdoctoral fellow), Hui Ding (postdoctoral fellow), Boriana Miloucheva (postdoctoral fellow), Duncan Webb (postdoctoral fellow), Anna Malinovskaya (postdoctoral fellow) |
| Website | |
Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the David Swensen Professor of Economics at Yale University. She was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association.
Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Janet Currie was named one of the top 10 women in economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015.