Health Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBERs Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on April 17. Program Director Michael Grossman of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Research Associate Theodore Joyce of Baruch College organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Philip DeCicca, McMaster University and NBER, and Harry Krashinsky, University of Toronto, "Does Education Reduce Teen Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws"

* Thomas Goldring, Carnegie Mellon University; Fabian Lange, McGill University; and Seth Richards-Shubik, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER, "Testing for Changes in the SES-Mortality Gradient when the Distribution of Education Changes Too" (NBER Working Paper No. 20993)

* Elaine M. Liu, University of Houston and NBER; Jin-Tan Liu, National Taiwan University and NBER; and Hazel Tseng, University of Houston, "The Impact of a Natural Disaster on the Incidence of Fetal Losses and Pregnancy Outcomes"

* Mark L. Egan, University of...