Christina Paxson
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Princeton University

 


Christina Paxson is the founding director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is a Senior Editor of The Future of Children; a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is a member of the programs on Aging, Health, and Children; and a Research Associate of Princeton’s Office of Population Research. Her research interests are in the areas of applied economics, health, and development economics. Her current research focuses on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both developed and developing countries. She is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded studies, including "Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect", "Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing" and "College Education and Health", and is the director of an NIA Center for Demography of Aging at Princeton.

Address 
316 Wallace Hall
Center for Health and Wellbeing 
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University 
Princeton NJ 08544

E-mail     cpaxson@princeton.edu
Phone    (609) 258-6474 
Fax         (609) 258-5974 

Administrative Assistant
Debbie Nexon 
(609) 258-1456 
dnexon@princeton.edu

Research Interests
Health, Economic Development

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Working papers can be found in the Center for Health and Wellbeing Working Paper series.

 

Affiliations
Woodrow Wilson School
Department of Economics
Center for Health and Wellbeing
Research Program in Development Studies

Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Office of Population Research
NBER