Cohort studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Dora L. Costa from University of California - Irma T. Elo from University of Pennsylvania - Pekka Martikainen from University of Helsinki - Conference notes

The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies met in Chicago on April 2-3, 2010. The group's Director Dora L. Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles, organized the meeting. These papers and topics were discussed:

* "The Developmental Origins of Longevity"--David Barker, Southampton General Hospital

* "Early Life Family and Socioeconomic Conditions and Cause-Specific Mortality in Finland"--Irma T. Elo, University of Pennsylvania; Pekka Martikainen, University of Helsinki; and Mikko Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

* "Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation" (NBER Working Paper No. 15664)--Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; James Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER; and Susanne Schennach, University of Chicago

* "The Ostrich Effect: Selective Attention to Financial News by Investors"-- George Loewenstein and Duane Seppi, Carnegie Mellon University; Nachum Sicherman, Columbia University; and Stephen Utkus, Vanguard

* "Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy" (NBER Working Paper No. 15321)--Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Antonio Spilimbergo, International Monetary Fund

* "Environmental and Socioeconomic Influences on Health over the...