Janet Currie

Janet Currie is a Professor of Economics at Yale University where she co-directs the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics and Policy Program and is a member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics.  She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health, environmental threats to health, child mental health, and the long-run impacts of child health. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Art and Sciences, and the British Academy, and holds honorary degrees from the University of Lyon, the University of Zurich, and the Università della Svizzera Italiana and. She was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association. She is a distinguished CES Fellow, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists, the Rockwool Foundation, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She was chosen as a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019, won the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2023, and was named a Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2024.  In 2024, she received the Jacob Mincer prize for lifetime contributions to labor economics; in 2026 she received the Victor Fuchs award for lifetime contributions to health economics and the Sara McLanahan award for extraordinary contributions to the study of the wellbeing of children and families. In 2015, she was named one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum. Currie has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature, and on the editorial boards of many other journals.