Thursday, May 1 / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM   •   Wellesley

Session 50:
Health and Mortality in Developing Countries

Discussant: Paul Stupp, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chair: Carlos Díaz-Venegas, University of Texas at Galveston

  1. Trends in Health Expectancy and Its Macroeconomic Correlates among Working-Age Men and Women in Contemporary RussiaYuka Minagawa, Waseda University

  2. A Framework for the Analysis of Early Life InterventionsFlavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania ; Linda Adair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Judith B. Borja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; John A. Maluccio, Middlebury College ; Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University ; Esteban Puentes, Universidad de Chile ; Aryeh D. Stein, Emory University ; Fan Wang, University of Pennsylvania

  3. Globalization and Investments in Child Health and Family Planning: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment IndustryGisella Kagy, University of Colorado at Boulder

  4. Effect of National Immunizations Days on Immunization Coverage, Child Morbidity and Mortality: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity DesignPatrick Asuming, Columbia University ; Stephane Helleringer, Columbia University

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