Featured Researcher: Anne Case

Anne C. Case is a Research Associate in the NBER’s Programs on Public Economics, Children, Aging,and Education.She has been affiliated with the NBER since 1989.

Case is also a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Economics Department, Princeton University. She directs Princeton’s Research Program in Development Studies and is a Faculty Associate of their Office of Population Research and their Center for Health and Well-being.

Case received her Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School and her Ph.D. from Princeton. She taught in the Economics Department at Harvard University before joining the Princeton faculty.

Case’s research interests are in development, health, public finance, and intra-household resource allocation.She is currently researching the two-way links between income and health, both in the US and in South Africa, where she is collecting panel data with which to study these issues at several sites.

Case is married to another NBER Research Associate and Professor of Economics, Angus Deaton. When they are not working, they enjoy going to the opera, traveling and watching the Yankees win.