NBER profile: Christina H. Paxson.

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Christina H. Paxson is a Research Associate in the NBER'S Programs on Aging, Children, Healthcare, and Education. She is also the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

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 also a Senior Editor of The Future of Children, and a Research Associate of Princeton's Office of Population Research. She is the director of Princeton's Health Grand Challenges program, and the principal investigator for Princeton's NIH-funded Center for the Demography of Aging.

Paxson's research interests are in the areas of applied economics, health, and development economics. Her cur rent research focuses on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both developed and developing...