Janet Currie
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics
Research
Janet Currie is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the University of Michigan's Poverty Center and has served on several National Academy panels. She has held positions at MIT and Princeton. Her work evaluates the extent to which federal programs for poor children and families can be viewed as successful social investments.
Selected Work
- "Getting Inside the 'Black Box' of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't," Economics of Education Review, forthcoming, with Matthew Neidell.
- "Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?" forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2005, with Matthew Neidell.
- "Cut to the Bone?: Hospital Takeovers and Employment Contracts," forthcoming in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 58 #3, April 2005, 471-494, with Mehdi Farsi and Bentley MacLeod.
- "Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization of Care," Journal of Public Economics, 89 #1, Jan. 2005, 85-108, with John Fahr.
- "Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California", Journal of Public Economics, 88 #12, Dec. 2004, 2573-2585, with Anna Aizer.
- "Does WIC Work? The Effect of WIC on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23 #4, Fall 2004, 73-91, with Marianne Bitler.
- "Child Research Comes of Age," Canadian Journal of Economics, 37 #3, August, 2004, 509-527.
- "Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Nutritional Outcomes in Children and Adults," Journal of Health Economics, 23 #2, July 2004, 839-862, with Jayanta Bhattacharya and Steven Haider.
See Also
- Featured publication: The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families
