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Christina Hull Paxson (born February 6, 1960) is the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In July 2009, she became the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1982, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1987. In 2000, Paxson founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton, an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School. She served as the chairman of Princeton’s Economics Department in academic year 2008-09. She was also the founding director of an NIA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Princeton.

Paxson is known for her research on health, economic development and public policy. She is a Senior Editor of The Future of Children, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to translating the best social science research about children into information that is useful to policymakers and practitioners. She has been the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded studies, including "Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect", "Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing" and "College Education and Health."