The Determinants of Mortality
Organized by David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney
Supported by the National Institute on Aging
January 9-10, 2025
2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, January 9
9:30am
Breakfast and Welcome
9:59am
Session I: SES Disparities
10:00am

Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Life Expectancy, 2001-2019



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Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Janet Currie, Yale University and NBER
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Ines Guix Sauquet, Opportunity Insights
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University and NBER
Michael Stepner, University of Toronto
Harvey Barnhard, Harvard University
Dhruv Gaur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tyler Jacobson, University of Chicago
Emma Lee, Harvard University
Alistair Pattison, Harvard University
Ana Sanchez Chico, Harvard University
Arjun Shanmugam, Harvard University
Thomas Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
10:50am

Commodity Prices and Mortality

Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota
Jhih-Yun Liu, University of Connecticut
Joleen Hadrich, University of Minnesota
11:40am
Speaker: Ellen Meara, Harvard University (slides)
12:00pm
Lunch
1:29pm
Session II: Pollution
1:30pm

Airlines, Pollution, and Health

Xinming Du, National University of Singapore
Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University and NBER
2:20pm

Glyphosate Exposure and GM Seed Rollout Unequally Reduced Perinatal Health

Edward A. Rubin, University of Oregon
Emmett B. Saulnier, University of Oregon
3:10pm
Speaker: Matthew Neidell, Columbia University (slides)
3:30pm
Break
3:39pm
Session III: Health Trends
3:40pm

Understanding Trends in Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors Among US Teens

Han Choi, Princeton University
Adriana Corredor-Waldron, North Carolina State University
Janet Currie, Yale University and NBER
Chris Felton, Baylor University
4:30pm

Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities: Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands. (slides)

Ailun Shui, University of Groningen
Gerard van den Berg, University of Groningen
Jochen O. Mierau, University of Groningen
Laura Viluma, University of Groningen
5:20pm
Speakers:
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles
David Cutler, Harvard University
(slides)
5:40pm
Adjourn
6:30pm
Dinner, Bambara Restaurant, Marlowe Hotel
Friday, January 10
8:30am
Breakfast
8:59am
Session IV: Income Transfers in LMICs
9:00am

The Effects of Government-led Cash Transfer Programs on Behavioral and Health Determinants of Mortality: Evidence from 37 Low- and Middle-income Countries

Aaron Richterman, University of Pennsylvania
Camellia Bùi Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania
Harsha Thirumurthy, University of Pennsylvania
9:50am

Adverse Effects of Cash Transfers on Older Adult Health in Mexico (slides)

Felipe Menares, Inter-American Development Bank
William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:40am
Speaker: Marianne Page, University of California, Davis (slides)
Break
11:14am
Session V: Policy
11:15am

Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil

Damian Clarke, Universidad de Chile
Rudi Rocha, Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV
Michel Szklo, CLEAR, FGV - São Paulo School of Economics.
11:55am

The Impact of Austerity on Mortality and Life Expectancy

Yonatan Berman, King's College London
Tora Hovland, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
12:45pm
Speaker: Sherry Glied, New York University (slides)
Lunch
2:19pm
Session VI: Global Warming
2:20pm

The Causes and Consequences of Urban Heat Islands

John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
Tridevi Chakma, Harvard University
3:10pm

Heat Disproportionately Kills Young People: Evidence from Wet-bulb Temperature in Mexico

Andrew J. Wilson, Stanford University
R. Daniel Bressler, Bentley University
Catherine Ivanovich, Columbia University
Cascade Tuholske, Montana State University
Colin Raymond, University of California, Los Angeles
Radley Horton, Columbia University
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Patrick Kinney, Boston University
Tereza Cavazos, CICESE, B.C., Mexico
Jeffrey G. Shrader, Columbia University
4:00pm
Speaker: Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago (slides)
Adjourn