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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Cohort Studies Meeting

 

Dora Costa, Organizer

 

April 8, 2011

 

California Center for Population Research

UCLA

Room 4240, Public Affairs Building

Los Angeles, California

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 8:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:20 am

Welcome and Introduction

 

 

8:30 am

Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago

 

Early Health Shocks, Parental Responses, and Child Outcomes

 

(with James Heckman, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang)

 

 

9:25 am

Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University

 

Early Growth and Adult Health and Human Capital: A Pooled Analysis from Five Cohorts from Developing Countries

 

 

10:20 am

Break

 

 

10:40 am

Laura Carstensen, Stanford University

 

Shifting Temporal Horizons Influence Motivation Across Adulthood

 

 

11:35 am

Moshe Buchinsky, UCLA and NBER

 

Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation

 

The Evolution of Self-Reported Health

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

David Weir, University of Michigan

 

What's New in the HRS?  by Eileen Crimmins and Kathleen McGarry standing in for David Weir

 

 

2:25 pm

Anne Pebley, UCLA

 

Capturing Residential Mobility and Choice in a Longitudinal Survey

 

 

3:20 pm

Break

 

 

3:40 pm 

Robert Pollak, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

 

Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

 

(with Janice Compton)

 

 

4:35 pm

Paola Giuliano, UCLA and NBER

 

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

 

(with Alberto Alesina and Nathan Nunn)

 

 

5:30 pm 

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

Napa Valley Grille – Westwood

1100 Glendon Avenue

Los Angeles, CA

 

 

 

 

 

MAP

 

Driving Directions: http://www.ucla.edu/map/index.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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