[URPE] [NYC] (CEPA) SCEPA Workshop--Thursday, November 29th--"The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity"

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SCEPA Workshop on THURSDAY, November 29th featuring:

Janet Currie, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics,
Columbia University
"The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity"

Workshop will be held on Thursday, November 29 from 12:30 p.m.-2:00
p.m. (please note this is a Thursday)
79 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor, Room 1001
FREE and open to the New School community and the public.

Janet Currie is a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of
Economics at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton
University in 1988, and has taught at Princeton, MIT, and at UCLA where
she held the Charles E. Davidson Chair in Economics. She has served on
several National Academy of Sciences panels including the Committee on
Population, and currently serves on on the Executive Committee of the
American Economics Association. She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor
Economists, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research, an affiliate of the University of Michigan’s National
Poverty Center, and an affiliate of IZA in Bonn. She is on the advisory
board of the National Children’s Study and on the editorial board of
the Quarterly Journal of Economics. She has served several other
journals in an editorial capacity including the Journal of Health
Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public
Economics.

For the past decade, her research has focused on evaluating programs
aimed at poor children and families. She has written about early
intervention programs, programs to expand health insurance and improve
health care, public housing, and food and nutrition programs. Much of
this research is summarized in The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the
Nation’s Poor Children and Families, Princeton University Press, May
2006. Currently, she is interested in social determinants of child
health, and in the relationship between socioeconomic status and
health.

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