Krzysztof Karbownik

About

Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik is an associate professor at Emory University and an applied economist studying infant and childhood health, family economics, and economics of education. He is currently studying minority peer effects in education, birth order effects over a century, and how postnatal interventions could reduce inequality generated by prenatal health shocks.

With the purpose of understanding and enriching the human capital production function, Karbownik has studied short-, medium-, and long-run consequences of prenatal health, prenatal care incentives, access to hospital and nursing care in early childhood, sickness in childhood, and availability of junk food in childhood and adolescence. He has written papers that document how parental decisions and resources shape the human capital development of their children and how siblings affect one another. Karbownik has also been involved in the evaluation of school choice programs in Florida and Ohio.

He is affiliated with the Center for Economic Studies–Ifo Institute (CESifo, Germany), the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA, Poland), the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA, Germany), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, United States).

Karbownik holds a PhD in economics from Uppsala University and MAs in economics and quantitative methods from SGH Warsaw School of Economics.