Cohort Studies meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies, directed by Dora Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles, met there on April 8, 2011. These topics were discussed:

* Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago; James Heckman, NBER and University of Chicago; and Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Early Health Shocks, Parental Responses, and Child Outcomes"

* Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University, "Early Growth and Adult Health and Human Capital: A Pooled Analysis from Five Cohorts from Developing Countries"

* Laura Carstensen, Stanford University, "Shifting Temporal Horizons Influence Motivation across Adulthood"

* Moshe Buchinsky, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation, "The Evolution of Self-Reported Health"

* Anne R. Pebley, University of California, Los Angeles...