Cohort studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research meetings on cohort studies - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies met in Cambridge on April 4, 2014. Working Group Director Dora Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles chose these papers to discuss:

* Ilona Koupil, Stockholm University, "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health among Swedish Men and Women Born 1915-2010: Life Course and Intergenerational Effects across the Twentieth Century"

* Alissa Goodman, University of London; Elaine Kelly, Institute for Fiscal Studies; and James Smith, RAND Corporation, "Childhood Health in the United States and United Kingdom: A Cross-Cohort, Cross-National Comparison"

* Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley, "Emotional Diversity: Sources and Consequences"

* Lambert Lumey, Columbia University, "Early Life Determinants of Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes over the Lifecourse...