Cohort Studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference notes

The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies met in Cambridge on April 17-18. Working Group Director Dora Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Research Associate Robert Poliak of Washington University in St. Louis organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Alissa Goodman, Heather Joshi, Bilal Nasiin, and Claire Tyler, University College London, "Social and Emotional Skills in Childhood and Their Long-Term Effects on Adult Life"

* Gabriella Conti, University College London, "Explaining the Relationship between Early Life Factors and Later Outcomes: Behavioral and Biological Pathways"

* Eric Schneider, University of Sussex, "Fetal Health Stagnation: Have Health Conditions in Utero Improved in the U.S. and Western and Northern Europe over the Past 150 Years?"

* Aryeh Stein, Emory University, "Child Growth and Human Capital: Data from COHORTS"

* Daniel W. Belsky, Avslialoin Caspi, Renate Houts, Harvey J. Cohen, David Corcoran, HonaLee Harrington, Jon Schaefer, Karen Sugden, Benjamin Williams, Anatoli I. Yashin, and Terrie Moffitt, Duke University; Andrea Danese,

King's College London; Salomon Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; M. E. Levine, University of California, Los Angeles; and Richie Poulton, University of Otago, "Quantification of Biological Aging in Young Adults"

* Dave Donaldson, Stanford University and NBER, and Daniel Keniston, Yale University and NBER, "How Positive Was the Positive Check? Investment and Fertility in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza in India"

* Chulhee Lee and Esther Lee, Seoul National University, "Son Preference, Sex-Selective Abortion, and Parental Investment in Girls in Korea: Evidence from the Year of the White Horse"

* Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER, and Douglas Oxley, University of Wyoming, "Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment"

* Avron Spiro, Boston University, "Long-Term Psychological Outcomes of Military Experience"

* Hans Henrik...