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 | |
| 9:59am | Session I: SES Disparities | |
| 10:00am |
Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Life Expectancy, 2001-2019 Note: This presentation will not be livestreamed. |
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| 10:50am |
Commodity Prices and Mortality |
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| 11:40am | Speaker: Ellen Meara, Harvard University (slides) | |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:29pm | Session II: Pollution | |
| 1:30pm |
Airlines, Pollution, and Health |
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| 2:20pm |
Glyphosate Exposure and GM Seed Rollout Unequally Reduced Perinatal Health |
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| 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 |
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| 4:30pm |
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities: Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands. |
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| 5:20pm |
Speakers: Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles David Cutler, Harvard University (slides) |
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| 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 |
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| 9:50am |
Adverse Effects of Cash Transfers on Older Adult Health in Mexico |
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| 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 |
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| 11:55am |
The Impact of Austerity on Mortality and Life Expectancy |
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| 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 |
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| 3:10pm |
Heat Disproportionately Kills Young People: Evidence from Wet-bulb Temperature in Mexico |
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| 4:00pm | Speaker: Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago (slides) | |
| Adjourn | ||