NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Cohort Studies Meeting

Dora Costa, Organizer

March 24, 2006

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 23:

6:30 pm Group Dinner

Helmand Restaurant

143 First Street

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MARCH 24:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am ROBERT POLLAK, Washington University and NBER

Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?

(Joint with Liliana Pezzin and Barbara Schone)

10:30 am HOYT BLEAKLEY, University of Chicago

Malaria in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

11:30 am Break

11:45 am WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America

(Joint with KAREN CLAY)

12:45 pm Lunch

1:45 pm CHULHEE LEE, Seoul National University

Socioeconomic Differences in Wartime Morbidity and Mortality of Black Union Army Soldiers

2:45 pm ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER

Changes in Health Disparities within Cities and between Cities and Rural Areas

3:45 pm Adjourn

3/8/06