Janet Currie

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| field = economics of children, labour economics, family economics, health economics

| alma_mater = University of Toronto, Princeton University

| doctoral_advisors = Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Angus Deaton

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| doctoral_students = Lucia Nixon, Marianne Bitler, Matthew Neidell, Leah Brooks, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Anna Aizer, Graciana Rucci, Graciela Teruel, Luis Rubalcava, John Fahr, Pia Orrenius, Rosemary Hyson, Chien-Liang Chen, Benjamin Bolitzer, Yan Lee, David Zulli, Hsinling Hsiao, Wanchuan Lin, Eliana Garcés Tolón, Nancy Cole, Steven Rivkin, Ninez Ponce, Mehdi Farsi, Emilia Simeonova, Johannes Schmeider, Joshua Goodman, Reed Walker, Muhammad Asali, Cecilia Machado, Katherine Meckel, Jessica Van Parys, Maya Rossin-Slater, Valentina Duque, Mariessa Hermann, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Ayako Kondo, Laura Nolan, Diane Alexander, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, David Slusky, Dan Zeltzer, Molly Schnell, Jenny Shen, Emily Cuddy, Rachel Anderson, Chris Mills, Anastasiya Karpova, Jessica Min, Patrick Agte

| notable_students = Hannes Schwandt (postdoctoral fellow), Anna Chorniy (postdoctoral fellow), Esmee Zwiers (postdoctoral fellow), Adriana Corredor-Waldron (postdoctoral fellow), Jonathan Xia Zhang (postdoctoral fellow), Hui Ding (postdoctoral fellow), Boriana Miloucheva (postdoctoral fellow), Duncan Webb (postdoctoral fellow), Anna Miloucheva (postdoctoral fellow)

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Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing.{{cite web |title=Leadership and Affiliates |url=https://chw.princeton.edu/people/leadership-and-affiliates |website=Center for Health and Wellbeing }} She was the 2024 President of the [https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/leadership American Economic Association.] She served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at Princeton from 2014–2018.{{Cite news|url=http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/currie-named-economics-department-chair|title=Currie Named Economics Department Chair|date=2014-04-08|work=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs|access-date=2018-07-17|language=en|archive-date=2016-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315020419/http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/currie-named-economics-department-chair|url-status=dead}} She also served as the first female Chair of the Department of Economics at Columbia University from 2006–2009.{{cite news |title=Five Minutes with... Janet Currie |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/nov_dec08/around_the_quads11 |work=Columbia College Today |date=2008 |access-date=2018-07-17 |archive-date=2017-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626034324/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/nov_dec08/around_the_quads11 |url-status=dead }} Before Columbia, she taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was named one of the top 10 women in economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/07/10-top-women-in-economics/|title=10 top women in economics|website=World Economic Forum|date=23 July 2015 |access-date=2018-07-17}} She was recognized for her mentorship of younger economists with the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economics Association in 2015 and also participated in the founding and evaluation of the AEA’s mentoring program for junior faculty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=471|title=Janet M. Currie Recipient of the 2015 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{cite journal |last1=Ginther |first1=Donna K. |last2=Currie |first2=Janet M. |last3=Blau |first3=Francine D. |last4=Croson |first4=Rachel T. A. |title=Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial |journal=AEA Papers and Proceedings |date=December 2020 |volume=110 |pages=205–209 |doi=10.1257/pandp.20201121 |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201121}}

Education

Currie received a B.A. in economics in 1982 and a M.A. in economics in 1983 from the University of Toronto. She then pursued graduate studies at Princeton University, where she received a Ph.D. in economics in 1988.{{cite book |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Collective bargaining in the public sector : three studies |date=1988 |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/994666763506421}}

Career

Currie co-directs the Program on Children and Families at the National Bureau of Economic Research.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nber.org/programs/ch/ch.html|title=The NBER Program on Children|website=www.nber.org|access-date=2018-07-17}} She is past president of the Society of Labor Economists, the Eastern Economics Association,{{Cite web|url=http://www.easterneconomicassociation.org/|title=Eastern Economic Association|website=Quinnipiac University|language=en|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211075559/http://www.easterneconomicassociation.org/|archive-date=2017-02-11|url-status=dead}} the [https://weai.org/about/ Western Economics Association], and the [https://www.ashecon.org/about/governance/ American Society of Health Economics], and previously served as vice-president of the American Economic Association. Currie has served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Labor and Income Statistics for Statistics Canada and as a consultant for the National Health Interview Survey and the National Longitudinal Surveys. She has served on advisory boards of the National Children's Study, the Committee on National Statistics, the National Academy of Science, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Blue Health Intelligence, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the board of governors of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, and the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She was appointed by the New Jersey state legislature to the board of the [https://iphd.rutgers.edu/ New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data Project.]

She served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science magazine from 2014–2018, and as the editor of the Journal of Economic Literature{{cite journal |title=Report of the Editor Journal of Economic Literature |journal=American Economic Review |date=1 May 2012 |volume=102 |issue=3 |pages=666–668 |doi=10.1257/aer.102.3.666 }} from 2010–2013. She has held various editorial roles for numerous economic peer-reviewed journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Population Economics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.

Research

Currie is best known for her work on the impact of poverty and government anti-poverty policies on the health and well-being of children over their life cycle. She has written about early intervention programs, expansions of the Medicaid program, public housing, and food and nutrition programs. Beginning the early 1990s, she was one of the first economists to evaluate such programs from the point of view of the child. In work with Duncan Thomas and Eliana Garces, she showed that children in a public preschool program named Head Start made gains relative to their own siblings in terms of both test scores and longer-term measures of attainment.{{cite journal |title=Longer-Term Effects of Head Start | date=2002 |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/00028280260344560 |journal=American Economic Review| doi=10.1257/00028280260344560 | last1=Garces | first1=Eliana | last2=Thomas | first2=Duncan | last3=Currie | first3=Janet | volume=92 | issue=4 | pages=999–1012 }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Thomas |first2=Duncan |title=Does Head Start Make A Difference? |journal=The American Economic Review |date=June 1995 |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=341–365}} In work with Jonathan Gruber, she showed that expansions of public health insurance to low income women and children improved access to care and reduced infant mortality.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Gruber |first2=Jonathan |title=Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women |journal=The Journal of Political Economy |date=December 1996 |volume=104 |issue=6 |pages=1263–1296|doi=10.1086/262059 }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Gruber |first2=Jonathan |title=Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care, and Child Health |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |date=May 1996 |volume=111 |issue=2 |pages=431–466|doi=10.2307/2946684 |jstor=2946684 |url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w5052.pdf }} Research on the effects of the safety net on American children is reviewed in her books: ″Welfare and the Wellbeing of Children″, and "The Invisible Safety Net."{{cite book |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Welfare and the Well-Being of Children |date=1995 |publisher=Harwood Academic Publishers |location=Chur Switzerland}}{{cite book |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families |date=Spring 2006 |publisher=Princeton University Press}} More recently, she has advocated for cash transfers, in conjunction with other safety net programs, given their helpfulness in raising families out of poverty.{{Cite web|last=Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge|date=March 10, 2020|title=Interview with Professor Janet Currie|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB8sGYjFWVI&feature=youtu.be|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 20, 2020|website=YouTube}}

Currie has investigated broader socioeconomic determinants of fetal and child health, including health care,{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=MacLeod |first2=W. Bentley |title=Understanding Doctor Decision Making: The Case of Depression Treatment |journal=Econometrica |date=May 2020 |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=847–878 |doi=10.3982/ecta16591 |pmid=32981946 |pmc=7514077 }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Kurdyak |first2=Paul |last3=Zhang |first3=Jonathan |title=Socioeconomic Status and Access to Mental Health Care: The Case of Psychiatric Medications for Children in Ontario Canada |journal=Journal of Health Economics |date=2024 |volume=93 |doi=10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102841 |pmid=38113755 |doi-access=free }} child maltreatment,{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Tekin |first2=Erdal |title=Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime? |journal=Journal of Human Resources |date=March 2012 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=509–549|doi=10.1353/jhr.2012.0017 |pmid=24204082 |pmc=3817819 }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Spatz Windom |first2=Kathy |title=Long-term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect on Adult Economic Well-Being |journal=Child Maltreatment |date=May 2010 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=111–120 |doi=10.1177/1077559509355316 |pmid=20425881 |pmc=3571659 |url=http://cmx.sagepub.com/content/15/2/111.full.pdf}} nutrition,{{cite journal |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Jayanta |last2=Currie |first2=Janet |last3=DeLeire |first3=Thomas |last4=Haider |first4=Steven |title=Heat or Eat? Income Shocks and the Allocation of Nutrition in American Families |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=July 2003 |volume=93 |issue=7 |pages=1149–1154|doi=10.2105/AJPH.93.7.1149 |pmid=12835201 |pmc=1447925 }}{{cite journal |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Jayanta |title=Breakfast of Champions? The Effects of the School Breakfast Program on the Nutrition of Children and their Families |journal=Journal of Human Resources |date=July 2006 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=445–466|doi=10.3368/jhr.XLI.3.445 }}{{cite journal |last1=Bitler |first1=Marianne |last2=Currie |first2=Janet |title=Does WIC Work? The Effect of WIC on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes |journal=Journal of Policy Analysis and Management |date=Winter 2005 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=73–91|doi=10.1002/pam.20070 |pmid=15584177 }} environmental pollution,{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Walker |first2=Reed |last3=Voorheis |first3=John |title=What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality |journal=American Economic Review |date=January 2023 |volume=113 |issue=1 |pages=71–97|doi=10.1257/aer.20191957 |url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w26659.pdf }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Nilsson |first2=Peter |last3=Simeonova |first3=Emilia |last4=Walker |first4=Reed |title=Congestion Pricing, Air Pollution, and Children's Health |journal=Journal of Human Resources |date=Fall 2021 |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=971–996 |doi=10.3368/jhr.56.4.0218-9363R2 |url=https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/wpjhr/56/4/971.full.pdf}}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Davis |first2=Lucas |last3=Greenstone |first3=Michael |last4=Walker |first4=Reed |title=Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings |journal=American Economic Review |date=February 2015 |volume=105 |issue=2 |pages=678–709 |doi=10.1257/aer.20121656 |pmid=27134284 |pmc=4847734 }} and maternal education.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Moretti |first2=Enrico |title=Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings |journal=Quarterly Journal of Economics |date=November 2003 |volume=118 |issue=4 |pages=1495–1532|doi=10.1162/003355303322552856 }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Hyson |first2=Rosemary |title=Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Birth Weight |journal=American Economic Review |date=May 1999 |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=245–250|doi=10.1257/aer.89.2.245 |url=http://papers.nber.org/papers/w6999.pdf }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development |journal=Journal of Economic Literature |date=March 2009 |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=87–122|doi=10.1257/jel.47.1.87 |url=http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13987.pdf }} Her work showing that the adoption of EZ-Pass improved infant health in Pennsylvania and New Jersey received wide attention.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Walker |first2=Reed |title=Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass |journal=American Economic Journal: Applied Economic |date=January 2011 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=65–90 |doi=10.1257/app.3.1.65 |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.3.1.65}} Some of her work showing disparities in fetal exposure to pollution and their consequences is summarized in her 2011 Ely lecture to the American Economics Association.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences |journal=American Economic Review |date=May 2011 |volume=101 |issue=3 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.1257/aer.101.3.1 |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.101.3.1|url-access=subscription }} With Anna Aizer and Hannes Schwandt, she has shown that inequality in mortality is falling among U.S. children, at the same time that inequality in mortality among adults has been increasing, and attributed this improvement to the protective effect of safety net programs.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Schwandt |first2=Hannes |title=Inequality in mortality decreased among the young while increasing for older adults, 1990–2010 |journal=Science |date=May 2016 |volume=352 |issue=6286 |pages=708–712 |doi=10.1126/science.aaf1437 |pmid=27103667 |pmc=4879675 |bibcode=2016Sci...352..708C }}{{cite journal |last1=Aizer |first1=Anna |last2=Currie |first2=Janet |title=The intergenerational transmission of inequality: Maternal disadvantage and health at birth |journal=Science |date=May 2014 |volume=344 |issue=6186 |pages=856–861 |doi=10.1126/science.1251872 |pmid=24855261 |pmc=4578153 |bibcode=2014Sci...344..856A }} Her work on health care has focused on differences in physician behavior as one of the key determinants in variation in the care both children and adults receive.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Cuddy |first2=Emily |title=Treatment of Mental Illness in American Adolescents Varies Widely Within and Across Areas |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=September 2020 |volume=117 |issue=39 |pages=24039–24046 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2007484117 |doi-access=free |pmid=32958646 |pmc=7533674 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11724039C }}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Kurdyak |first2=Paul |last3=Zhang |first3=Jonathan |title=Socioeconomic Status and Access to Mental Health Care: The Case of Psychiatric Medications for Children in Ontario Canada |journal=Journal of Health Economics |date=January 2024 |volume=93 |doi=10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102841 |pmid=38113755 |doi-access=free }} Currie's work on child mental health shows that mental health is a stronger predictor of future outcomes than many common childhood physical health problems and that children's mental health is impacted by early life factors.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Stabile |first2=Mark |last3=Manivong |first3=Phongsack |last4=Roos |first4=Leslie |title=Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes |journal=Journal of Human Resources |date=July 2010 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=517–548|doi=10.1353/jhr.2010.0013 |url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w14482.pdf }}{{cite journal |last1=Chorniy |first1=Anna |last2=Currie |first2=Janet |last3=Sonchak |first3=Lyudmyla |title=Does Prenatal WIC Participation Improve Child Outcomes? |journal=American Journal of Health Economics |date=Spring 2020 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=169–198 |doi=10.1086/707832 |pmid=33178883 |pmc=7652032 }}

Overall, her work shows that early childhood, including the fetal period, is of great importance for the development of children's productive capabilities (their 'human capital') and that programs targeting early childhood can be particularly effective in remediating childhood disadvantage.{{cite journal |last1=Almond |first1=Douglas |last2=Currie |first2=Janet |last3=Duque |first3=Valentina |title=Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II |journal=Journal of Economic Literature |date=December 2018 |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=1360–1446 |doi=10.1257/jel.20171164 |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20171164}}{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=Almond |first2=Douglas |title=Human Capital Development Before Five |journal=Handbook of Labor Economics |date=2011 |volume=4 |issue=Part B |pages=1315–1486 |doi=10.1016/S0169-7218(11)02413-0 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169721811024130}}

This work represents a departure from earlier work on collective bargaining in the public sector.{{cite journal |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |last2=McConnell |first2=Sheena |title=Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Effect of Legal Structure on Dispute Costs and Wages |journal=The American Economic Review |date=September 1991 |volume=81 |issue=4 |pages=693–718 |url=https://econpapers.repec.org/article/aeaaecrev/v_3a81_3ay_3a1991_3ai_3a4_3ap_3a693-718.htm}}{{cite journal |last1=Ashenfelter |first1=Ortley |last2=Currie |first2=Janet |last3=Farber |first3=Henry |last4=Spiegel |first4=Matthew |title=An Experimental Comparison of Dispute Rates in Alternative Arbitration Systems |journal=Econometrica |date=November 1992 |volume=60 |issue=6 |pages=1407–1433 |doi=10.2307/2951527 |jstor=2951527 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2951527|hdl=1721.1/63488 |hdl-access=free }}

Personal

She is married to W. Bentley MacLeod, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University, and together they have two children.{{cite web |title=Interview with Janet Currie |url=https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2012/interview-with-janet-currie |website=Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis}}

Awards and honors

Fellow of the Society of Labor Economics, elected May 2006{{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Fellows of the Society of Labor Economists |url=https://www.sole-jole.org/sole-fellows |website=Society of Labor Economics}}
Named an Alumni of Influence by University College, University of Toronto, 2012 {{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Alumni of Influence Past Recipients |url=https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni-alumni-influence-past-recipients?page=13 |website=University College, The Founding College of the University of Toronto}}
Fellow of the Econometric Society, elected 2013{{Cite web|title=Fellows of the Econometric Society 1950 to 2019 {{!}} The Econometric Society|url=https://www.econometricsociety.org/society/organization-and-governance/fellows|website=www.econometricsociety.org|access-date=2020-05-13}}
Member of the National Academy of Medicine, elected 2013{{Cite web|title=Member|url=https://nam.edu/member/|website=National Academy of Medicine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-13}}
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2014{{Cite web|title=Janet M. Currie|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/janet-m-currie|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}}
Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2014{{Cite web|title=Janet Currie|url=https://www.aapss.org/fellow/janet-currie/|date=2016-08-08|website=AAPSS|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-13}}
Honorary Doctorate, University of Lyon, 2016{{Cite news|url=http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/la-ceremonie-de-remise-du-titre-de-docteur-honoris-causa-a-janet-currie-en-images-1002413.kjsp|title=La cérémonie de remise du titre de Docteur Honoris Causa à Janet Currie en images|last=web-com|first=com|work=Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3|access-date=2018-07-17|language=fr-FR}}
Honorary Doctorate, University of Zurich, 2017{{cite news |title=Currie presented with honorary degree by Université Jean Moulin Lyon III |url=https://www.oec.uzh.ch/en/faculty/excellence/honorary-doctorates.html#:~:text=Janet%20Currie,over%20more%20than%20two%20decades |work=University of Zurich }}
NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award, 2019 {{cite web |title=Annual NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award presented to three outstanding scientists |date=11 October 2019 |url=https://nomisfoundation.ch/2019/10/11/annual-nomis-distinguished-scientist-award-presented-to-three-outstanding-scientists/}}
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, elected 2019{{Cite web|title=Janet Currie|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/3003200.html|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2020-05-13}}{{Cite web|title=2019 NAS Election|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2019-nas-election.html|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2020-05-13}}
Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for work aimed at improving learning, development, and living conditions of children and youth, 2023.{{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=2023 Research Prize – Janet M. Currie |url=https://jacobsfoundation.org/activity/2023-research-prize-janet-currie/ |website=Jacobs Foundation}}
Distinguished CES Fellow, 2023{{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Distinguished CES Fellow 2023: Child Mental Health as Human Capital |url=https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/calendar-of-events/event/distinguished-ces-fellow-2023-child-mental-health-as-human-capital.html}}
Honorary Doctorate, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2024.{{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Honorary Doctorate to Janet Currie |url=https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/28223}}
2024 Society of Labor Economists Jacob Mincer Award honoring lifetime contributions to the field of labor economics.{{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Jacob Mincer Award |url=https://www.sole-jole.org/jacob-mincer-award |website=Society of Labor Economists}}
International Fellow of the British Academy, elected July 2024{{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Professor Janet Currie FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/search/?query=janet+currie |website=The British Academy}}
2024 Clarivate Citation Laureate of the Institute for Scientific Information, {{cite web |last1=Currie |first1=Janet |title=Clarivate Reveals Citation Laureates 2024 |url=https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-reveals-citation-laureates-2024/}}