Talk will be rescheduled for Fall 2025 - Janet Currie, Princeton University
| When |
Apr 21, 2025
from 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM |
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| Where | 2208 LeFrak / Online |
| Contact Name | Jennifer Doiron |
| Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
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About the Presentation
SPEACIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Janet Currie's train was cancelled this morning and it is not possible to reschedule in time for her seminar and meetings today. We will be rescheduling her seminar for Fall 2025 as a result.
The past 15 years have seen concerning increases in the number of youth emergency department visits with mental health diagnoses and increases in youth exhibiting suicidal behaviors. This paper examines concurrent changes in diagnostic criteria and incentives for patients and providers to receive or to give mental health diagnoses. We conclude that much of the increase in diagnoses such as suicidal ideation is driven by these changes and does not necessarily reflect changes in underlying mental health conditions.
About the Speaker
Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health, environmental threats to health, child mental health, and the long-run impact of child health. She has presented her work at universities around the world and in venues ranging from the White House to the European Investment Bank. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Lyon, the University of Zurich, and the Università della Svizzera Italiana and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Art and Sciences, and the British Academy. She was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association. She is a distinguished CES Fellow, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She was chosen as a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019 and won the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2023. She was named one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum in 2015. Currie has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature, and on the editorial boards of many other journals.
Seminar Format
Location IN PERSON: 2208 LeFrak Hall. We are requesting advanced registration so that we can track capacity. Please use this link to RSVP for in-person attendance. - Seminar is now postponed until Fall 2025.
Location ONLINE VIA ZOOM: Zoom Registration Link. Seminar is now postponed until Fall 2025
If accommodations are needed, please send request to meeting organizer (mprc-support@umd.edu) at least 72 hours prior to the event, if possible, to allow time to discuss and implement alternatives.
MPRC public events for Spring 2025 will be a mix of in person and online via Zoom. For in person events, all event attendees must follow current protocols.