Cohort Studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies met on May 11-12 in Cambridge. Working Group Director Dora Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles organized the meeting, which honored Robert Fogel. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER, and Alfia Karimova and Michael J. Murto, University of Michigan, "The Determinants of Life Expectancy in the 20th Century U.S.: Evidence from the LIFE-M Project"

* Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER, "Socioeconomic Status & Child Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1940"

* Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University and NBER, "Height and Happiness"

* Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "Intergenerational Transmission of Wartime Trauma"

* Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan and NBER, "The Hookworm Again"

* Chulhee Lee, Seoul National University, "Nutrition, Health, and Human Capital Development: Evidence from...