Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik is an applied economist who is an associate professor at Emory University. His research is concentrated in three areas: infant and childhood health, family economics, and economics of education. On the first, he 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. In family economics, his papers documented how parental decisions and resources shape the human capital development of their children and how siblings affect each other. Finally, in economics of education, he was involved in evaluation of school choice programs in Florida and Ohio. The overarching theme for all these research questions is understanding and enriching the human capital production function. Some of his current research projects include studying minority peer effects (education), birth order effects over a century (family), and how post-natal interventions could reduce inequality generated by prenatal health shocks (health).