The Determinants of Mortality

David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney, Organizers

January 9-10, 2025

2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Thursday, January 9
9:30am	Breakfast and Welcome
	Session I: SES Disparities
10:00am	Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER Janet Currie, Princeton 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 Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Life Expectancy, 2001-2019 Note: This presentation will not be livestreamed.
10:50am	Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota Jhih-Yun Liu, University of Connecticut Joleen Hadrich, University of Minnesota Commodity Prices and Mortality
11:40am	Speaker: Ellen Meara, Harvard University
12:00pm	Lunch
	Session II: Pollution
1:30pm	Xinming Du, National University of Singapore Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University Airlines, Pollution, and Health
2:20pm	Edward A. Rubin, University of Oregon Emmett B. Saulnier, University of Oregon Glyphosate Exposure and GM Seed Rollout Unequally Reduced Perinatal Health
3:10pm	Speaker: Matthew Neidell, Columbia University
3:30pm	Break
	Session III: Health Trends
3:40pm	Han Choi, Princeton University Adriana Corredor-Waldron, North Carolina State University Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER Chris Felton Understanding Trends in Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors Among US Teens
4:30pm	Ailun Shui, University of Groningen Gerard van den Berg, University of Groningen Jochen O. Mierau, University of Groningen Laura Viluma, University of Groningen Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities: Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands. (slides)
5:20pm	Speakers: Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles David Cutler, Harvard University
5:40pm	Adjourn
6:30pm	Dinner, Bambara Restaurant, Marlowe Hotel
Friday, January 10
8:30am	Breakfast
	Session IV: Income Transfers in LMICs
9:00am	Aaron Richterman, University of Pennsylvania Camellia Bùi Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania Harsha Thirumurthy, University of Pennsylvania The Effects of Government-led Cash Transfer Programs on Behavioral and Health Determinants of Mortality: Evidence from 37 Low- and Middle-income Countries
9:50am	Felipe Menares, Inter-American Development Bank William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Adverse Effects of Cash Transfers on Older Adult Health in Mexico (slides)
10:40am	Speaker: Marianne Page, University of California, Davis
11:00am	Break
	Session V: Policy
11:15am	Damian Clarke, Universidad de Chile Rudi Rocha, FundaÃ§Ã£o Getulio Vargas â FGV Michel Szklo, CLEAR, FGV - São Paulo School of Economics. Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil
11:55am	Yonatan Berman, King's College London Tora Hovland, London School of Economics The Impact of Austerity on Mortality and Life Expectancy
12:45pm	Speaker: Sherry Glied, New York University
1:05pm	Lunch
	Session VI: Global Warming
2:20pm	John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia Tridevi Chakma, Harvard University The Causes and Consequences of Urban Heat Islands
3:10pm	Andrew J. Wilson, Stanford University R. Daniel Bressler, Columbia 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 Heat Disproportionately Kills Young People: Evidence from Wet-bulb Temperature in Mexico
4:00pm	Speaker: Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago
4:20pm	Adjourn