Health economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce from City University of New York. Baruch College - Anna Aizer from Brown University - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on May 7, 2010. Program Director Michael Grossman of City University of New York and NBER Research Associate Ted Joyce of Baruch College organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Ted Joyce, and Ruoding Tan and Yuxiu Zhang, City University of New York, "Changes in Teen Fertility Following Access to the Pill and Abortion in the Early 1970s"

* Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER, and Laura Stroud, Brown University, "Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health" (NBER Working Paper No. 15840)

* Joshua Graff Zivin, University Of California, San Diego and NBER, and Matthew Neidell, Columbia University and NBER, "The Impact of Environmental Conditions on Worker Productivity"

* William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER, and Timothy J. Moore, University of Maryland, "The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt"

* Christopher Carpenter, University...