NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Cohort Studies Meeting

 

Dora Costa, Organizer

 

May 11-12, 2007

 

Stein Eriksen Lodge

Silver Room

Park City, Utah

 

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, MAY 11:

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:30 am

JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER

 

The Past as Prologue:  The Effect of Early Life Circumstances at the Community and Household Levels on Mid-Life and Late-Life Outcomes

 

(Joint with Karen Rolf and Werner Troesken)

 

 

10:30 am

GRANT MILLER, Stanford University and NBER

 

Is Mortality in Developing Countries Procyclical?  Health Production and the Value of Time in Columbia’s Coffee-Growing Regions

 

(Joint with Piedad Urdinola)

 

 

11:30 am

Break

 

 

11:45 am

MARTHA BAILEY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

"Momma's Got the Pill": How Comstock Statutes and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing in the 1960s

 

 

12:45 pm

Lunch – Gold Room

 

 

1:45 pm

ELIZABETH ANANAT, Duke University and NBER

 

JOANNA LAHEY, Texas A&M University

 

Vice and Comstockery: Abortion and Birth Control Access and the 19th Century Demographic Transition

 

 

2:45 pm

HOYT BLEAKLEY, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Spillovers and Aggregate Effects of Health Capital:  Evidence from Campaigns Against Parasitic Disease in the Americas

 

 

3:45 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

TREVON LOGAN, Ohio State University and NBER

 

Economies of Scale in the Household:  Evidence and Implications from the American Past

 

 

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner- Valhalla Room

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 12:

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:30 am

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

BHASHKAR MAZUMDER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Prenatal Nutrition and Adult Outcomes:  The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan 

 

 

10:30 am

SVEN WILSON, Brigham Young University

 

Institutional and Discretional Discrimination in Public Sector Programs: The Union Army Disability Pension

 

 

11:30 am

Break

 

 

11:45 am

CHULHEE LEE, Seoul National University

 

Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early-Twentieth-Century America

 

 

12:45 pm

Lunch – Gold Room

 

 

1:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 2:00 pm

All-Resort Express Shuttle Departs Hotel for Salt Lake City Airport

 

 

 

 

 

 

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