Rethinking Barker

New economic perspectives on early life factors shaping later life outcomes

Mai 30 – June 1, 2014

Essen, Germany

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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