Seminar on: Early-life conditions, social mobility and other factors that influence survival to old age

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Committee on Historical Demography

Seminar on: Early-life conditions, social mobility and other factors that influence survival to old age
Arranged by: IUSSP and the Research Group in Economic Demography , Lund University

Seminar Programme

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THURSDAY JUNE 8

Breakfast at Grand Hotel, Lund for participants arriving on the 7th and check-out at the latest by 8.45

9.00 Departure from Grand Hotel in Lund with coach to Grand Hotel in Mölle

10.00 Arrival and check- in at the Grand Hotel in Mölle

10.30 COFFEE

11.00
A Time-Series Test of Diminished Entelechy in Birth Cohorts

Tim Bruckner, University of California at Berkeley

Ralph Catalano, University of California at Berkeley

12.00 LUNCH

13.00
Early Life Conditions and the Cause of Death Later in Life

Gerard J. van den Berg, Free University Amsterdam/IFAU-Uppsala

Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter, University of Rostock

Kaare Christensen, University of Odense

14.00
Early childhood health, reproduction of economic inequalities and the persistence of health and mortality differentials

Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin-Madison >

Carolina Milesi, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alyn Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

15.00
Effects of Childhood and Middle-Adulthood Family Conditions on Later-Life Mortality:
Evidence from the Utah Population Database, 1850-2002

Ken R. Smith, University of Utah

Geraldine P. Mineau, University of Utah

Gilda Garibotti, University of Utah

Richard Kerber, University of Utah

16.00 COFFEE

16.15
Direct and indirect effects of conditions in early life on old age mortality, Southern Sweden, 1829-1894

Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University

Göran Broström, Umeå University

19.00 DINNER

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FRIDAY JUNE 9

8.45
Testing the influenza-tuberculosis selective mortality hypothesis with Union Army data

Andrew Noymer, University of California at Berkeley

9.45
Age at First Birth, Parity, and Post-Reproductive Mortality among White and Black Women in the US, 1982-2001

Naomi Spence, Florida State University

Isaac W. Eberstein, Florida State University

10.45 COFFEE

11.00
From birth to death in a population experiencing exceptional longevity: the case of Villagrande, Strisaili (Sardinia)

Michel Poulain, Université Catholique de Louvain

Gianni Pes, Università degli Studi di Sassari

Luisa Salaris, Université Catholique de Louvain

12.00 LUNCH
Influences of early life conditions on later life mortality in old Québec

Alain Gagnon, University of Western Ontari

Ryan Mazan, University of Western Ontario

14.00
Influences of living arrangements in childhood on demographic outcomes in adulthood: Liaoning, 1749-1909

Cameron Campbell, University of California, Los Angeles

James Z. Lee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

15.00 COFFEE

15.30 EXCURSION

19.00 DINNER

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SATURDAY JUNE 10

9.30
Explanations for the influence of early social conditions on longevity: findings from the British 1946 birth cohort study

Diana Kuh, MRC, University College London

Marcus Richards, MRC, University College London

Rebecca Hardy, MRC, University College London

Michael Wadsworth, MRC, University College London

10.30
The Impact of Early Twentieth Century Illegitimacy across Three Generations: Intra-generational longevity and inter-generational health correlates

Bitte Modin, Stockholm University/ Karolinska Institutet

Ilona Koupil, Stockholm University/ Karolinska Institutet

Denny Vågerö, Stockholm University/ Karolinska Institutet

CHECK-OUT BEFORE LUNCH

12.00 LUNCH

13.00
Departure with coach from Grand Hotel in Mölle. We will go directly to Malmö Central Station and drop off those participants that intend to take an Öresund train to Kastrup Airport. The coach will then continue to Lund for final drop off. Estimated arrival at Malmö Central Station is 14.30-15.00 and at Lund 15.00-15.30.

- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS -

INCLUDES INVITED SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS AND MEMBERS OF THE RESEARCH GROUP IN ECONOMIC DEMOGRAPHY, LUND UNIVERSITY

Tommy Bengtsson, chair of IUSSP committee on Historical Demography and paper presenter
Gerard J. van den Berg, paper presenter
Tim Bruckner, paper presenter
Cameron Campbell, paper presenter
Ola Claësson, Ph.D. student, Research Group in Economic Demography, Lund
Alain Gagnon, paper presenter
Myron Gutmann, member of IUSSP committee on Historical Demography, Lund
Jonas Helgertz, Ph.D. student, Research Group in Economic Demography, Lund
Kent Johansson, Ph.D., Research Group in Economic Demography, Lund
Chyong-fang Ko, visiting scholar at the Research Group in Economic Demography, Lund
Diana Kuh, paper presenter
James Z Lee, member of IUSSP committee on Historical Demography and paper presenter
Juan Merlo, seminar committee member
Bitte Modin, paper presenter
Geraldine P. Mineau, member of IUSSP committee on Historical Demography and paper presenter
Andrew Noymer, paper presenter
Alberto Palloni, paper presenter
Mats Persson, Ph.D. student, Research Group in Economic Demography, Lund
Michel Poulain, paper presenter
Luisa Salaris, invited IUSSP junior demographer
Jacob Siegel, external guest
Naomi Spence, paper presenter