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Angela Fertig
Angela Fertig is an assistant professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia in Athens, with a joint appointment in the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Prior to her current appointment, she was an assistant professor of economics at Indiana University in Bloomington and a post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University. Her research focuses on issues related to young families, poverty, and health. Current projects include studying prenatal smoking and alcohol exposure, childhood obesity, child support enforcement policies, domestic violence, Medicaid take-up, public housing, and homelessness. Professor Fertig received her Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 2001.
Her publications include "The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance," with A. Case and C. Paxson, Journal of Health Economics, and "Trends in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States," Journal of Income Distribution.
