Persistence in Health: The influence of early life conditions and intergenerational transmission
Friday 16 October 2009
Clifton Hill House, Lower Clifton Hill, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1BX
Conference Organiser: Sonia Bhalotra
For more information about this conference please contact: cmpo-office@bristol.ac.uk
Conference speakers
- Douglas Almond (Columbia University, NY) - Health capital and the prenatal environment: the effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy (Joint with Bhaskar Mazumder (Chicago)) - Paper (pdf, 1.8MB), Podcast
- Sonia Bhalotra (CMPO, University of Bristol) - Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health (Joint with Sam Rawlings) - Paper (pdf, 989.2kB)
- Elaine Kelly (UCL) - The Scourge of Asian Flu: in utero Exposure to Pandemic Influenza and the Development of a Cohort of British Children. - Paper (pdf, 807.6 kB)
- Mikael Lindahl (Uppsala university) and Erik Plug (Amsterdam university) - The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods (Joint with Helena Holmlund) Paper (pdf, 333.2 kB), Slides (pdf, 99.4 kB)
- Peter Nilsson (Uppsala, IFAU) - The Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Lead Exposure: Evidence from the Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline - Paper (pdf, 581.3 kB)
