The Health Transition: A Conference in Memory of Robert Fogel.

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An NBER Conference "The Health Transition: A Conference in Memory of Robert Fogel," organized by NBER Research Associate Dora Costa of the University of California, Los Angeles, took place in Chicago on October 4, 2013. These papers were discussed:

*Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago and NBER; Dora Costa; and Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California-Los Angeles and NBER, "Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000" (NBER Working Paper No. 19162)

* Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde, "Food for Thought: Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in the UK, 1700-1914"

* Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University, "The Mortality Transition in Sweden: Diet or Disease?"

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