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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Joint Cohort Studies-DAE Program Meeting

Leah Boustan, Dora Costa, and Claudia Goldin, Organizers

April 13-14, 2012

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

 

Friday, April 13:


8:15 am

8:30 am


Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


J. Michael Gaziano,
VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Million Veteran Program: A 21st Century Mega Cohort Within a Health System


9:55 am


Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity: Patient-Level Evidence from the 1996-2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Linked Mortality Public-Use Files


10:50 am


Break


11:10 am


Steven Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER
Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University
James Rosenquist, Massachusetts General Hospital
The Importance of Genetic Modification of Birth Cohort Environments on Risky Behavior: Evidence from The Framingham Heart Study

12:05 pm

Lunch


1:05 pm


Costas Meghir, Yale University
Marten Palme, Stockholm University
Emilia Simeonova, Princeton University and NBER
Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

2:00 pm

Chulhee Lee, Seoul National University
In-Utero Exposure to the Korean War and Its Long-Term Effects on Economic and Health Outcomes


2:55 pm


Break


3:15 pm


Martha Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, University of Michigan
The War on Poverty’s Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans


4:10 pm


Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and NBER
Maternal Health and Fertility: An International Perspective


5:05 pm


Adjourn

5:15 pm

Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

6:30 pm

Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel – Skyline Room
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

Saturday, April 14:


8:15 am

8:30 am


Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
When the Levee Breaks: Labor Mobility and Economic Development in the American South


9:55 am


Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota
Pamela Wood,
Monash University
Birth Weight and Adult Health in Historical Perspective: Evidence from a New Zealand Cohort, 1907-1922

10:50 am

Break

DAE Program Meeting:


11:10 am


Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
Ebonya Washington, Yale University and NBER
Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965


12:05 pm


Lunch


1:05 pm


Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER
Railroads and American Economic Growth: A “Market Access” Approach

2:00 pm

Tomas Cvrcek, Clemson University and NBER
Nicholas Laurence, Clemson University
The Spread of Steam Power: How Neighbors Mattered, 1841-1863

2:55 pm

Adjourn