National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee Member
Dr. Currie is a Professor at Columbia University and Chair of the Economics Department. She has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the evaluation of a broad array of public policies affecting disadvantaged children, including Medicaid, Head Start, and food and nutrition programs.
Dr. Currie has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economics Association and on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as being a past editor or associate editor of several other journals. She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, and an affiliate of the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center. She has served on National Academy of Science (NAS) and National Institutes of Health panels including the NAS Committee on Population.