Christina Paxson

Christina Paxson

Christina Paxson is Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and founding director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. 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.