Anna Aizer

Anna Aizer is the Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics at Brown University.  She received her degree in Economics from UCLA in 2003 and came to Brown in 2004 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. She is a labor and health economist with interests in the area of child health and well-being. She is also co-director of the NBER's program on Children and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Resources.

Her current work considers the mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of income. In particular, she focuses on the roles played by health insurance and access to medical care, domestic violence, exposure to environmental toxins, the role of stress, discrimination in the labor market, job training and poor children's greater interaction with the juvenile justice system in explaining why the children of poor mothers are more likely to experience worse economic outcomes later in life.