The Rise in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Organizers

February 5, 2021

Conference Code of Conduct

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
Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER

International Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Has this Engine of Progress Ground to a Halt?
2:25 pm
Renee Y. Hsia, University of California at San Francisco
Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER
Harlan Krumholz, Yale University

Racial Disparities in the Regionalization of Care for Patients with ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) (slides)
2:50 pm
David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

Understanding Differences in Heart Disease Trends by Education
3:15 pm
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College and NBER
Charlie Rafkin, University of California, Berkeley
Sam Asher, Imperial College London

Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans
3:40 pm
Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Christopher J. Ruhm, University of Virginia and NBER

Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race (slides)
4:05 pm
Joanna Aleksandra Kopinska, Sapienza University of Rome
Vincenzo Atella, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Jay Bhattacharya, National Institutes of Health
Grant Miller, Stanford University and NBER

The Changing Relationship between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income Countries
4:30 pm
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, ZEW
Elisabetta Olivieri, Banca d'Italia
Eleftheria Triviza, University of Mannheim

Eating Habits: The Role of Early Life Experiences and Intergenerational Transmission
5:00 pm
Adjourn