NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease and Death

and

Cohort Studies Group Joint Meeting

Dora Costa and Robert Fogel, Organizers

April 25-26, 2003

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

and the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge

FRIDAY, APRIL 25:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

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

EARLY INDICATORS - PLENARY MEETING AND REPORTS OF PROGRESS

INVITED SESSION ONLY

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM SHARON NIELSEN and NOELLE YETTER, Center for Population Economics

From Document to Dataset: Demonstration and Discussion

11:30 AM Lunch

12:30 PM ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER

Principal Investigator

Welcome and Overview

12 :45 PM JAVIER BIRCHENALL, University of Chicago

Airborne Diseases: Tuberculosis in the Union Army

1:15 PM DAVID HACKER, Binghamton University

Subgrant Project: Marriage Selection and Marriage Protection:

Evidence from a Longitudinal Sample of Union Army Recruits

JUDITH PIZARRO, UC, Irvine

Subgrant Project: Traumatic Exposure and Disease Development

in the Union Army Dataset

1:45 PM Break

2:00 PM JOSEPH BURTON and VERONICA WALD, University of Chicago

Core and Administrative Updates

2:30 PM Break

JOINT EARLY INDICATORS/COHORT STUDIES

2:45 PM WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality in Turn-of-the-Century Massachusetts

3:30 PM CHULHEE LEE, Seoul National University

Health and Economic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860-1870

4:15 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Group Dinner

Sandrine's

8 Holyoke Street

Cambridge, MA

SATURDAY, APRIL 26:

JOINT EARLY INDICATORS/COHORT STUDIES

ROYAL SONESTA HOTEL - PARKVIEW ROOM

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER

ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER

Welcome and Introduction of Speakers

GUEST SPEAKERS

9:15 AM SIR MICHAEL MARMOT, University College London

A Framework for Explaining Inequalities in Health

10:15 AM RICHARD SUZMAN, National Institute on Aging

10:45 AM Break

10:55 AM ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER

PAPERS

11:10 AM DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER

Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century:

A Long-Term Comparison

12:00 PM Lunch

1:10 PM JONATHAN SKINNER and DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Technological Diffusion in Health Care: A New Look

2:00 PM SVEN WILSON, Brigham Young University

Two Centuries of Marriage and Mortality in the United States:

Evidence from Family Histories

2:50 PM Break

3:10 PM LILIANA PEZZIN, Medical College of Wisconsin

ROBERT POLLAK, Washington University and NBER

BARBARA SCHONE, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Long-Term Care and Family Decision Making

4:00 PM Adjourn

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