Saturday, May 3 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM   •   Harvard

Session 207:
Public Health and Demography II

Chair: Jocelyn E. Finlay, Harvard University
Discussant: Joshua Wilde, University of South Florida
Discussant: Lung Vu, Population Services International (PSI)

  1. Interview Length in Demographic and Health Surveys: Trends, Patterns, and Implication for Data QualityYoonjoung Choi, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ; Lauren Bachan, Pennsylvania State University ; Madeleine Short Fabic, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ; Jacob A. Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

  2. Response Error and the Medicaid Undercount in the 2009 Current Population SurveyJames Noon, U.S. Census Bureau ; Leticia Fernandez, U.S. Census Bureau ; Sonya Rastogi, U.S. Census Bureau

  3. On the Role of Female Health for Economic DevelopmentMichael Kuhn, Vienna Institute of Demography ; David E. Bloom, Harvard University ; Klaus Prettner, University of Göttingen

  4. A Reassessment of the Role of Water Improvements in the Urban Mortality Decline in the United States, 1900-1930Gretchen A. Condran, Temple University ; Chuck P. Galli, Temple University

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