NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Cohort Studies Meeting

Dora Costa, Organizer

March 6, 2009

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 5:
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	The Similans
	145 1st Street
	Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, MARCH 6: 8:15 am Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
	DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
	AMANDA PALLAIS, MIT
	Assessing the Rising Return to Education and Ability: Evidence from Army Veterans
9:40 am	Break
9:55 am	GRANT MILLER, Stanford University and NBER
	DIANA PINTO, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
	MARCOS VERA-HERNÁNDEZ, University College London
	Supply-vs. Demand-Side Rationing in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s Régimen Subsidiado
10:50 am	LAURA BIERUT, Washington University, St. Louis
	RICHARD GRUCZA, Washington University, St. Louis
	KAREN NORBERG, Washington University, St. Louis and NBER
	Adolescence as a Sensitive Period: Long-Term Effects of Minimum Purchase Age Laws on Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders
11:45 am	Break
12:00 pm	PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
	MELISSA THOMASSON, Miami University and NBER
	The Effects of Experiencing the Great Depression as a Child on Socioeconomic and Health Outcomes
12:55 pm	Lunch
1:55 pm	JAMES FEYRER, Dartmouth College
	DIMITRA POLITI, Brown University
	DAVID WEIL, Brown University and NBER
	The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	JOHN BROWN, Clark University
	Fertility Control with Imperfect Methods: Strategies of Family Building and the Choice of Technique during the German Fertility Transition, 1885-1915
4:00 pm	MARTHA BAILEY, University of Michigan and NBER
	NZINGA BROUSSARD, Claremont McKenna College
	The Impact of Federal Family Planning Grants Under the War on Poverty
4:55 pm	Adjourn
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