Program director news.

• Position: NBER News - M. Garber step down - Brief article

After 19 years as Director of the NBER's Program on Health Care, Research Associate Man M. Garber of Stanford University will step down on June 30, 2009. His successor will be Jonathan Gruber of MIT, who has served as Director of the NBER's Program on the Economic Well-Being of Children since 1996.

Research Associate Janet Currie of Columbia University, the current chair of that university's Economics Department and an NBER affiliate since 1991, will become Director of the NBER's Economic Well-Being of Children Program on July 1, 2009. An active member of that Program for many years, Currie also served as Program Director in 1997-8 while Gruber was a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the...