NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Cohort Studies Meeting
Dora Costa, Organizer
February 25, 2005
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24:
6:30 PM Group Dinner
Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER
KENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health:
Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era
9:50 AM TREVON LOGAN, Ohio State University
On the Nutrition-Stature Hypothesis
10:40 AM Break
11:00 AM HOYT BLEAKLEY, UC, San Diego
FABIAN LANGE, Yale University
Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility,
and Growth
11:50 AM KAREN NORBERG, Washington University
Is the Sex Ratio at Birth a Social Indicator?
12:40 PM Lunch
1:40 PM JOSEPH BURTON, University of Chicago
ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER
SVEN WILSON, Brigham Young University
Declining Disparities in Infant Mortality in the United States:
Preliminary Results from a Sample of Ward Level Data
2:30 PM LORENS HELMCHEN, University of Illinois at Chicago
LOUIS NGUYEN, Harvard Medical School
Tangible Human Capital:
The Effects of Amputations on Later Life Outcomes of Union Army Veterans
3:20 PM Adjourn
1/12/05