NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

COHORT STUDIES MEETING

Dora Costa, Organizer

May 17, 2002

NBER Offices,

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MAY 16:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02142

FRIDAY, MAY 17:

8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

9:00 AM Continental Breakfast

9:30 AM ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER

Causes and Consequences of the Decline in Disability in

the Twentieth Century

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER

Health and Nutrition in the PreIndustrial Era:

Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

11:45 AM Lunch

12:45 PM CLAYNE POPE, Brigham Young University and NBER

SVEN WILSON, Brigham Young University

Parental Death, Child and Adolescent Mortality, and Implications

for American Economic Growth and Inequality, 1600-1925:

Preliminary Evidence from a Sample of Family Histories

1:45 PM Break

2:00 PM JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER

JASON LONG, Northwestern University

A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Career Mobility in the UK (1851-81)

and US (1850-80)

Over, Please!

Cohort Studies Program, Page 2:

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM JOHN BROWN, Clark University

TIMOTHY GUINNANE, Yale University

The Fertility Transition in Munich: First Results

4:15 PM Adjourn

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