Adriana Lleras-Muney research interests are health and labor economics. She is currently interested in explaining socio-economic differentials in health outcomes, in particular in understanding the effects of education and other early childhood investments on health. She has a joint appointment with the Princeton University Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and is a faculty associate of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and the Office of Population Research at Princeton. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Adriana Lleras-Muney received her PhD from Columbia University in 2001.