Christina Hull Paxson (born February 6, 1960) is the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In July 2009, she became the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1982, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1987. In 2000, Paxson founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton, an interdisciplinary research center in the Woodrow Wilson School. She served as the chairman of Princeton’s Economics Department in academic year 2008-09. She was also the founding director of an NIA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Princeton.
Paxson's current research focuses on the impact of childhood health and circumstances on economic and health outcomes over the lifecourse; the impact of the AIDS crisis on children's health and education in Africa; and the long run consequences of Hurricane Katrina on the mental and physical health of vulnerable populations. Paxson is a Senior Editor of The Future of Children, an interdisciplinary journal that works to build a bridge between cutting edge social science research and the policy community.
“Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes” (with Anne Case), Journal of Political Economy, 116(3): 499-532, June 2008.
“Racial Disparities in Childhood Asthma in the US: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2003” (with Marla McDaniel and Jane Waldfogel), Pediatrics 117(5): e868-e877, May 2006.
“Orphans in Africa: Parental Death, Poverty and School Enrollment” (with Anne Case and Joseph Ableidinger), Demography 41(3), pp. 483–508, August 2004.
“Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient” (with Anne Case and Darren Lubotsky), American Economic Review 92(5), December 2002.
“Economies of Scale, Household Size, and the Demand for Food” (with Angus Deaton), Journal of Political Economy 106(5): 897-930, October 1998.
“Intertemporal Choice and Inequality” (with Angus Deaton), Journal of Political Economy 102(3): 437-467, 1994.
“Consumption and Income Seasonality in Thailand,” Journal of Political Economy 101(1): 39-72, February 1993.
“Using Weather Variability to Estimate the Response of Savings to Transitory Income in Thailand,” American Economic Review 82(1), March 1992.