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Adult Mortality in the 21st Century
Organized by Anne Case Supported by the National Institute on Aging October 12, 2018 NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA |
| Friday, October 12 | |
| 8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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Panelists will set the stage, summarizing an area or a body of work in 15 minutes each, leaving time for open discussion:
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Session I: Mortality in the US
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| 9:00 am |
Panelists: Samuel Preston, Penn; David Cutler, Harvard; John Bound, Michigan
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| 9:45 am |
Discussion
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| 10:30 am |
Break
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Session II: Gradients in Mortality and Deaths of Despair in the US
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| 11:00 am |
Panelists: Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus; Anne Case, Princeton; Richard Frank, Harvard
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| 11:45 am |
Discussion
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| 12:30 pm |
Lunch
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Session III: The Opioid Crisis
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| 1:15 pm |
Panelists: Amy Finkelstein, MIT; Janet Currie, Princeton; Ellen Meara and Jon Skinner, Dartmouth; Christopher Ruhm, Virginia; Bertha Madras, Harvard
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| 2:30 pm |
Discussion
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Session IV: What happens next? Conclusions
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| 3:00 pm |
Panelists: Michael Hurd, RAND; Angus Deaton, Princeton
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| 3:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 4:00 pm |
Adjourn
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