Cohort studies.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies met in Los Angeles on April 14-15. Working Group Director Dora Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles, organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Kent Thornburg, Oregon Health and Science University, "Early Life Origins of Disease"

* Gunnar Branden, Uppsala University (Sweden); Mikael Lindahl, University of Gothenburg (Sweden); and Bjorn Ockert, Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (Sweden), "The Importance of Nature-Nurture Interactions in Skill Formation: Evidence from a Large Sample of Swedish Adoptees"

* Lewina Lee and Avron Spiro, Boston University, "Early Psychosocial Experiences and Trajectories of Cardiometabolic Risk in Later Life: Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study"

* Kris Inwood, University of Guelph (Ontario); Les Oxley, University of Waikato (New Zealand); and Evan Roberts,

University of Minnesota, "Such a Rash Act: Wartime Experiences and Suicides after the Great War"

* Daniel Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt and Jasmin Wertz, Duke University, and Richie Poulton, University of Otago (New Zealand), "Do Polygenic Influences on Educational Attainment Predict Crime? Findings from Two Birth Cohorts"

* Daniel Barth, University of Southern California; Nicholas Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University; and Kevin Thorn,

New York University, "Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making"

* Weili Ding, Queen's University (Ontario), and Steven Lehrer, Queen's University (Ontario) and NBER, "Are Genetic Markers of Interest for Economic Research?"

* Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California, Santa Barbara, and NBER, and Miriam Wiist, Danish National Centre for Social Research, "What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention" (NBER Working Paper No. 22700)

* Mary McEniry, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Carmen Elisa Florez, Del Rosario University (Colombia); Renata Pardo, health consultant, Bogota, Colombia; Rafael Samper-Ternent, University of Texas Medical Branch; and Carlos...

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