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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

The Health Transition: A Conference In Memory of Robert Fogel

Dora Costa, Organizer

October 4, 2013

University of Chicago

Alumni House

5555 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL

PROGRAM

Participant List

Friday, October 4:
8:00 am	Aries Shuttle Bus leaves the Omni Hotel for the University of Chicago
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:20 am	Introduction, Dora Costa, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
9:30 am	Roderick Floud, Gresham College and NBER Bernard Harris, University of Southampton Food for Thought: Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in the UK, 1700-1914
10:15 am	Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University The Mortality Transition in Sweden: Diet or Disease?
11:00 am	Break
11:20 am	Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago and NBER Dora Costa, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Trends in Health, Education, and Income in the United States: 1820-2000
12:05 pm	Lunch - The Quadrangle Club
1:30 pm	Jay Olshansky, University of Illinois at Chicago The Future Course of Longevity and Health in the U.S.
2:15 pm	James Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER John Eric Humphries, University of Chicago Gregory Veramendi, Arizona State University The Effects of Educational Choices on Labor Market and Health Outcomes
3:00 pm	Adjourn
4:00 pm	Memorial Service for Robert Fogel in Rockefeller Chapel, followed by a reception.
7:00 pm	Aries Shuttle Bus returns to the Omni Hotel