Conference on Health Improvements for Economic Growth
Wednesday, 30 May - Thursday, 31 May 2007

 
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Conference Papers:

"Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth" (May 2006)
Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT; and Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan School of Management, MIT

"Malaria in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure" (August 2006)
Hoyt Bleakley, Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

"Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-run Income Differences" (May 2007)
Douglas Gollin, Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College
Christian Zimmermann, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut

"Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India" (May 2007)
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and Dean for the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Winnie Fung, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard Business School; Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Harvard University; and Monica Singhal, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government

"Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh" (October 2006)
Shareen Joshi, University of Chicago; and T. Paul Schultz, Yale University

"Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth" (October 2006)
David N. Weil, Professor of Economics, Brown University