Emilie Courtin
About
Emilie Courtin’s research combines policy evaluation and social epidemiology to explore how adverse social circumstances affect health, starting as early as pregnancy and throughout life. Ideally, social interventions would be provided early, long before health problems even begin. It is, however, hard to measure the long-term impact of early interventions because we rarely have data that follow people over many years. To address this issue, Courtin’s research brings together data and insights from social policy, economics and biology to study whether social interventions introduced in early life can improve health and aging outcomes for people growing up in disadvantaged circumstances.
Awards
- David E Bell Fellow, Harvard University (2019)
- Richard Titmuss Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation, London School of Economics (2018)
Relevant Publications
- Courtin E, Rieckmann A, Bengtsson J, Nafilyan V, Melchior M, Berkman LF, Hulvej Rod N (2022) The effect on women’s health of extending parental leave: a quasi-experimental registry-based cohort study. International journal of epidemiology, 52(4), 993-1002. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyac198
- Courtin E, Allen HL, Katz LF, Miller C, Aloisi K, Muennig PA (2022) Effect of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to Americans without dependent children on psychological distress: the Paycheck Plus Health Study randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Epidemiology, 191(8), 1444-1452. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwab164
- Courtin E, Nafilyan V, Avendano M, Meneton P, Berkman LF, Goldberg M, Zins M, Dowd JB. (2019) Longer schooling but not better off? A quasi-experimental study of the effect of compulsory schooling on biomarkers in France. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 379-386. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.033