Session 83:
Effects of Fetal and Childhood Conditions on Adult Health Outcomes
Discussant: Jennifer B. Dowd, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR)
Chair: Florencia Torche, New York University (NYU)
Understanding Heterogeneity in the Effects of Birth Weight on Adult Cognition and Wages Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Justin Cook, Yale University
Beyond Birth Weight: Alternate Ways of Representing How the Fetal Environment Relates to Adult Blood Pressure Kenneth Bollen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Shawn Bauldry, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Linda Adair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Violent Conflicts and Child Development: Evidence from Colombia Valentina Duque, Columbia University
Racial Differences in the Relationship between Childhood Adverse Events and Mental Health Disorders among a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents Jennifer Ahern, University of California, Berkeley ; Deborah Karasek, University of California, Berkeley ; Tim-Allen Bruckner, University of California, Irvine
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