Leadership changes.

• Position: NBER News - Princeton University - Brief article

Anna Aizer of Brown University, a research associate in the Children's Program, has joined Janet Currie of Princeton as the program's co-director. Aizer has investigated many issues that bear on the economic well-being of children, including the impact of maternal circumstances on child well-being, the link between public health insurance and health outcomes for children, and the determinants of youth violence and criminal activity.

Nicholas Barberis of Yale University, a research associate in the Asset Pricing Program and the Stephen and Camille Schramm Professor of Finance at Yale University's School of Management, is the new director of the Behavioral Finance Working Group. He succeeds founding co-directors Robert Shiller of Yale and Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago. Barberis has used insights from psychology to study investor decision making in a wide range of contexts. His work has...