Anna Aizer

Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics 

Brown University

64 Waterman Street

Providence, RI 02912

Office: 401-863-9529

Anna_Aizer@brown.edu

Positions

Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics, Brown University (July 2022 - present) 

Co-Director, NBER Children’s Program (October 2015 – present)

Editor in Chief, Journal of Human Resources (July 2021 - present)

Member, National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, NICHD (January 2024 – present) 

Faculty Associate, PSTC Brown University (July 2003-present)

Faculty Fellow, Brown IBES (2014-present)

Faculty Research Fellow NBER, (July 2004-present)

Faculty Affiliate, NHH Norwegian School of Economics (2018 - 2023) 

Department Chair (July 2018-July 2021)

Professor of Economics, Brown University (July 2016 - July 2021)

Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University (July 2010 – July 2016) 

Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University (July 2003-July 2010) 

Co-Editor, Journal of Human Resources (August 2015-July 2021) 

Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Literature (2015-present)

Education

Post Doc, Princeton Center for Research on Child Well-Being (2002-2003) 

PhD, UCLA (1998 – 2002)

MS, Harvard School of Public Health (1995) 

BA Magna cum Laude, Amherst College (1991)

Works in Progress

Aizer, Anna, Eli, Shari and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2022) “The Long Term Outcomes of Job Training for Youth: Evidence from the CCC” NBER WP 27109 revise & resubmit QJE

Aizer, Anna, Boone, Ryan, Lleras-Muney, Adriana and Jonathan Vogel (2022) “Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes” NBER WP 27689 reject & resubmit, AER

Aizer, Anna and Emilia Brito (2024) “Can Early Intervention Reduce Future Child Maltreatment?” Working Paper 

Aizer, Anna, Grafton, Gabriel, and Santiago Perez (2024) “What Happens When an Industry Runs Dry?  Long-Term Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition” Working Paper

Aizer, Anna, Fishback, Price, Lleras-Muney, Adriana, and Tauhidur Rahman (2024) “The Rise of Social Safety Nets and Social Insurance in the Historical US and Europe and Implications for Developing Countries” (2024) in the The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence to Inform Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Ben Olken and Rema Hana, editors. 

Publications

Aizer, Anna, Eli, Shari and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2022) “The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor” forthcoming AEJ: Applied

Aizer, Anna, Lleras-Muney, Adriana and Katherine Michelmore (forthcoming) “The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Child Development Outcomes” in Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit The ANNALS of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, Curran, Hoynes and Parolin eds.  

Aizer, Anna, Devereaux, Paul and Kjell Salvanes (2022) “Grandparents, Moms or Dads: Why the Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life,” Journal of Human Resources vol. 57(6), pages 2012-2047.

Aizer, Anna, Hoynes, Hilary and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2022) “Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 36 (2): 149-174.

Aizer, Anna and Janet Currie (2019). “Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records" The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 101(4), pages 575-587. 

Doyle, Joseph and Anna Aizer (2018) “ Economics of Child Protection: Maltreatment, Foster Care & Intimate-Partner Violence.” Annual Review of Economics, Volume 10.

Aizer, Anna, Janet Currie, Peter Simon, and Patrick Vivier. (2018). "Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (1): 307-41.

Aizer, Anna (2017) “The Role of Children's Health in the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status.” Child Dev Perspect, 11: 167-172.

Aizer, Anna, Eli, Shari, Ferrie, Joe and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2016) “The Long-Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families” American Economic Review, 106(4): 935-971.

Aizer, Anna, Stroud, Laura and Stephen Buka (2016) “Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings” Journal of Human Resources, 51(3): 523-555

Aizer, Anna and Joseph Doyle (2015) “Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(2): 759-803.

winner of the Baird Award for outstanding applied research – National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Aizer, Anna and Jane Currie (2014) “The Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: Maternal Disadvantage and Health at Birth” Science, May 2014, 344(6186):856-861.

Aizer, Anna (2014) “Rising Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Public Investments in Human Capital” CESifo Economic Studies 2014, 60(2):280-311.

Aizer, Anna (2011) “Poverty, Violence and Health: The Impact of Domestic Violence During Pregnancy on Newborn Health,” Journal of Human Resources, 46 (3): 518-538.

Aizer, Anna (2010) “The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence,” American Economic Review, 100(4):1847-1859.

Aizer, Anna and Pedro Dal Bo (2009) “Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships” Journal of Public Economics. 93(3-4):412-428.

Aizer, Anna (2007) “Public Health Insurance, Program Take-up and Child Health” Review of Economics and Statistics 89 (3):400-415.

Aizer, Anna, Currie, Janet and Enrico Moretti (2007) “Does Managed Care Hurt Health? Evidence from Medicaid Mothers” Review of Economics and Statistics 89 (3):385-399.

Aizer, Anna and Sara McLanahan (2006) “The Impact of Child Support on Fertility, Parental Investments and Child Well-being” Journal of Human Resources. 41 (1): 28-45.

Aizer, Anna, Lleras-Muney, Adriana and Mark Stabile (2005) “Access to Care, Provider Choice and the Infant Health Gradient” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 95(2):248-252.

Aizer, Anna (2004) “Home Alone: Supervision After School and Child Behavior” Journal of Public Economics 88(9-10):1835-1848.

Aizer, Anna and Janet Currie (2004) “Networks or Neighborhoods? Interpreting Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California,” Journal of Public Economics 88(12): 2573-2585.

Aizer, Anna (2003) “Low Take-up in Medicaid: Does Outreach Matter and For Whom?” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 93(2):238-241

Other Publications

National Academy of Sciences, committee member (2022-2023) for Consensus Study Report Policies and Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty, Greg Duncan, Editor.

Aizer, Anna and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (2020) editors “Three Trimesters to Three Years: Promoting Early Development” The Future of Children, Princeton-Brookings, Vol 30, No 2 Fall 2020.

National Academy of Sciences, committee member (2019) for Consensus Study Report The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth, Richard Bonnie and Emily Backes, Editors.

Aizer, Anna. (2017). "A Review Essay on Isabel Sawhill's Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenting without Marriage and Laurence Steinberg's Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence." Journal of Economic Literature, 55 (2): 592-608.DOI: 10.1257/jel.20151337

Gold, Marsha, Mittler, Jessica, Aizer, Anna and Barbara Lyons (2001) “Health Insurance Expansions through States in a Pluralistic System.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 26(3).

Gold, Marsha and Anna Aizer (2000) “Growing an Industry: How Managed is TennCare’s Managed Care?” Health Affairs, 19(1).

Ozminkowski, Ronald, Aizer, Anna and Gerri Smith (1997) “The Value and Use of the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program: Early Evidence from Tennessee.” Journal of Health and Social Work, 22(1).

Book Chapters

Aizer, Anna and Claudia Persico (2022) “Lessons learned from the COVID-19 Policy Response and Child Well-Being” chapter in Recession Remedies: Lessons Learned from the US. Economic Policy Response to COVID-19, Wendy Edleberg, Louise Sheiner and David Wessel, editors. The Hamilton Project at Brookings, 2022

Aizer, Anna and Joseph Doyle (2013) “The Economics of Child Well Being: Measuring the Effects of Child Welfare Interventions on Child Outcomes” chapter in the Handbook in Child Well-Being

Aizer, Anna “Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth” chapter in Disadvantaged Youth , Jonathon Gruber, ed. (April 2007) also NBER Working Paper #13773.

Permanent Working Papers

Aizer, Anna and Flavio Cunha (2013) “Child Endowments, Parental Investments and the Production of Human Capital” NBER WP# 18429, revise and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy

Aizer, Anna and Laura Stroud “Education, Medical Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health” NBER Working Paper #15840

Aizer, Anna “Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD” NBER Working Paper # 14354 (March, 2009).

Aizer, Anna and Jeffrey Grogger “Parental Medicaid Expansions and Child Medicaid Coverage” NBER Working Paper # 9907 (August 2003).

Grants and Awards

NIH R01HD077227-01A1 (co-PI) “The Long Term Impact of Income Transfers During Childhood” 2013-2017 $785,000. Winner of Presidential Award January 2017.

NSF- SES 0752755 (PI) “Prenatal Environments and Postnatal Investments: Impact on Future Economic Status” 2008-2010 $116,000.

NSF- SES 0648700 (PI) “Economic Determinants of Domestic Violence” 2007-2009 $79,500. NIH RO3HD051808- 01A2 (PI) “Violence and Birth Outcomes” 2007-2009 $50,000.

Henry Merrit Wriston Fellow, Brown University (award for excellence in teaching and scholarship)

2008-2009.

California Policy Research Center. California Program on Access to Care, “The Impact of Outreach on MediCal and Healthy Families Enrollment and Child Health: Lessons from California.” $14,000. April September, 2002.

Social Science Research Council, Program in Applied Economics Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 2001- 2002.

Presentations

Named Lectures: Calderwood Lecture, Wellesley College, April, 2018; Babcock Lecture, UC Santa Barbara, November 2019; McGee Lecture, Vanderbilt University, April 2022; Hurwicz Lecture, Warsaw Poland, June 2022.

Keynote Addresses: CEPR September 2021; European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) Barcelona June 2020; 10th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime, Paris, France, September 2018; Labor Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland “Early Life Environment and Human Capital Formation” June 2016; CESIFO Economics Studies & UCLS conference “Children, Families and Human Capital Formation,” October 2012; Essen Health Economics Conference on “New Perspectives on the Health-Education Nexus,” May 2015; University of Surrey conference on “Effects of Early Interventions on Child Health and Education,” May 2014.

2021-2022: UNC, Harvard KSG, Purdue, University of Hawaii, American University, UT Austin, Harvard, Yale, Harris School of Public Policy.

2020-2021: University of Chicago, Berkeley, Mannheim, Surrey, University of Kentucky, University of Georgia, Zurich, George Washington, UCL.

2019-2020: Vanderbilt, Pitt, Hunter College, Williams College, Emory, Bonn 2018-2019: UCLA, Duke, London School of Economics/LSE.

2017-2018: Princeton University, Yale University, NHH Norway, St. Andres (Argentina)

2016-2017: Harvard Kennedy School, Notre Dame, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Carnegie Mellon University, Tel Aviv University, Peking University, University of Virginia, Barnard College

2015-2016: University of Michigan, Boston College, NY Federal Reserve Bank, University of Wisconsin, Washington University-St Louis, Yale University

2014-2015: UC Denver, Georgetown, McGill, UPenn Wharton, Michigan State, Simon Fraser University, University of Wisconsin (IRP), MIT, Harvard KSG, London School of Economics/Paris School of Economics

2013-2014: Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan (RWJ), NBER Children’s Workshop, UCSB, University of Chicago (Harris School)

2012-2013: Harvard University, UCDavis, NYU, Universidad San Andres, Universidad Di Tella, University of Toronto,

2010-2011: Wash University- St Louis, University of Texas- Austin, Harvard-BU-MIT joint seminar 2009-2010: Cornell, UCSD, UCLA Public Policy, Vanderbilt, AHEC- Emory, NBER Summer Inst..

2008-2009: NBER Spring Children’s Meeting, Columbia University, Harvard University, Wellesley College, University of Houston/Rice

2007-2008: University of Chicago- Harris School, University of Virginia, Duke University, University of Illinois - Chicago, Yale Medical School, NBER Summer Institute

2006-2007: Princeton CHW, University of Chicago (Harris School), UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Syracuse University

2005-2006: Princeton OPR, Georgetown/Rand, Northwestern University, APPAM (discussant), Columbia/NBER.

2004-2005: Harvard-BU-MIT Joint Health Economics Workshop; University of Maryland, College Park; NBER Summer Institute; University of Michigan (ERIU conference) discussant.

2003-2004: University of California, Irvine School of Management; Population Association of America Annual Meeting; Annual Meeting of the AEA; APPAM (discussant).

Employment History

Senior Health Analyst, Mathematica Policy Research 1995-98

Case Worker, Neighborhood Center for Homeless People 1992-93