Friday, February 5

Format: 20 minutes for presentations, 5 minutes for questions and discussion

2:00 pm

Welcome, Anne Case and Angus Deaton

2:05 pm

International Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Has this Engine of Progress Ground to a Halt?

Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER

2:25 pm

Racial Disparities in the Regionalization of Care for Patients with ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) (slides)

Renee Y. Hsia, University of California at San Francisco
Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER
Harlan Krumholz, Yale University

2:50 pm

Understanding Differences in Heart Disease Trends by Education

David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

3:15 pm

Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans

Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College and NBER
Charlie Rafkin, University of California, Berkeley
Sam Asher, Imperial College London

3:40 pm

Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race (slides)

Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Christopher J. Ruhm, University of Virginia and NBER

4:05 pm

The Changing Relationship between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income Countries

Joanna Aleksandra Kopinska, Sapienza University of Rome
Vincenzo Atella, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University
Grant Miller, Stanford University and NBER

4:30 pm

Eating Habits: The Role of Early Life Experiences and Intergenerational Transmission

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, ZEW
Elisabetta Olivieri, Banca d'Italia
Eleftheria Triviza, University of Mannheim

5:00 pm

Adjourn