Christina Paxson
Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School
Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

 


Christina Paxson is the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  In 2000, she founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School. During her time as director of CHW, the center started undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in health and health policy, and took on the leadership of the University’s Health Grand Challenges program. Paxson 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 is on health, economic development and public policy, with a current focus on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both developed and developing countries. She has been 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 was the founding director of an NIA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Princeton.


Address 
424 Robertson Hall
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University 
Princeton NJ 08544

E-mail     cpaxson@princeton.edu
Phone    (609) 258-4800 
Fax         (609) 258-1418

Administrative Assistant
Marianne Goldfarb
(609) 258-4800
mgoldfar@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