Health, Wellbeing, and Children's Outcomes for Native Americans and Other Indigenous Peoples.

An NBER conference on Health, Wellbeing, and Children's Outcomes for Native Americans and Other Indigenous Peoples took place November 1 in Cambridge. Research Associate Randall Akee of the University of California, Los Angeles and Faculty Research Fellow Emilia Simeonova of Johns Hopkins University organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the National Institute on Aging through the NBER Center for Aging and Health Research. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University and NBER, and Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, "Changes in the Well-Being of Native Americans Born in the Northwest, 1830-1900"

* Stefanie Schurer, University of Sydney; Mary Alice Doyle, Poverty Action; and Sven Silburn, Menzies School of Health Research, "Why did Australia's Major Welfare Reform Lead to Worse Birth Outcomes in Aboriginal Communities?"

* Donna Feir, Federal...