Anne Case

Anne Case (May 2010)

Anne Catherine Case (* 27. July 1958 ) is an American economist and retired high school teacher .

Career, research and teaching

Case graduated in 1980 as Bachelor of Science in economics at the UAlbany SUNY . She then continued her studies at Princeton University , where she earned a Master of Public Affairs in 1983 and her Ph.D. Degree. From 1988 to 1991 she worked as an Assistant Professor at Harvard University before returning to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 1997 she was appointed full professor at the university . In 2017 she retired, but stayed at the university as a lecturer .

The main areas of research and teaching are in the areas of macroeconomics , health economics and labor economics . After the end of the apartheid system , she carried out a long-term research project in South Africa , in the context of which she examined data in the cross-sectional area of ​​economics and physical and mental health and subsequently published several publications on the relationships between education, health, labor market participation and decision-making in households. In this context, when confronted with the AIDS crisis in southern Africa, she also researched the effects of higher death rates among middle-aged people and survivors on social security systems, particularly against the background of the effects of socio-economic status on the health of children. For this purpose she cooperated intensively with Christina Paxson . She later expanded her research to include morbidity and mortality tests for the United States, for which she worked closely with Angus Deaton, among others .

Case has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2017 and the National Academy of Sciences since 2020, and has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 2009 . Between 2001 and 2006 she sat on the Board of Editors of the periodical American Economic Review and parallel to 2005, the World Bank Economic Review , before she was between 1996 and 2000 co-editor of the Economic Journal .

In 2003 Case was awarded the Arrow Prize , along with Paxson and Darren Lubotsky , and in 2016 she received the Cozzarelli Prize of the National Academy of Sciences for her research on morbidity and mortality in the United States.

Web links

• Homepage at Princeton University