Conference 2014
About the topic
The Barker hypothesis has revolutionized our view of how different phases in life interact in the determination of health and socio-economic outcomes. There is substantial evidence showing that environmental conditions in utero and during early childhood can have large and sometimes surprising long-term effects. However, the implications for individual decisions and policy remain unclear. The conference aims at expanding our knowledge on these issues.
Examples of single topics (amongst others):
- Economic evaluation of early life interventions in a life cycle perspective
- The impact of early life health shocks on the development of cognitive abilities
- Non-Cognitive and Psychosocial skills: their development over the life cycle
- The role of health in the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status
- Nutrition and food insecurity
- Scarring and selective mortality
- Identification and estimation of dynamic complementarities
- Structural modeling of child development
- Parental investments
Keynote Speakers
- Gabriella Conti, University College London
- Paul Devereux, University College Dublin
- Pramila Krishnan, University of Cambridge
- Heather Royer, University of California – Santa Barbara
Scientific Committee
- Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Therese Nilsson, Lund University
- Jerôme Adda, European University Institute
- Victoria Baranov, University of Melbourne
- Thomas Buchmueller, University of Michigan
- Simone Ghislandi, Bocconi University
- Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, University of York
- Tom van Ourti, Erasmus School of Economics
- Atheendar Venkataraman, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University