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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Cohort Studies Meeting

Dora Costa, Organizer

April 26, 2013

University of Chicago Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL

PROGRAM

Participant List

Thursday, April 25:

6:30 pm          Group Dinner
                       The Gage Restaurant
                       24 S. Michigan Avenue
                       Chicago, IL

Friday, April 26:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale of Land Reform and Sex Ratios in China  (not available online)
Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER
Hongbin Li, Tsing Hua University
Shuang Zhang, Stanford University

9:55 am

The Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Shelly Lundberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Pollak, Washington University and NBER

10:50 am

Break


11:10 am


Early Life Adversity, Changes in Gene Expression, and Health: Evidence from Rhesus Monkeys
Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago and NBER
background paper 1
background paper 2

12:05 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Fetal Origins in the Long Run
Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California, San Diego
Petter Lundborg, Lund University
Dan-Olof Rooth, Lund University


2:25 pm


Break


2:45 pm


Where the Other Half Lives: Evidence on the Origin and Persistence of Poor Neighborhoods from New York City 1830-2011
Carlos Villarreal, University of Illinois at Chicago and CPE

3:40 pm

Update on the Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death Project
Brian Bettenhausen, University of Chicago
Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Heather DeSomer, University of Chicago
Eric Hanss, University of Chicago
Sandra Mason, University of Chicago
Noelle Yetter, University of Chicago


4:35 pm



Adjourn