NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Cohort Studies Meeting



Dora Costa, Organizer



February 25, 2005



NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM

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







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