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Spring 2003 Lecture Series
Feb. 10, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm		 Rosalind Wright
Harvard University
Understanding Asthma Disparities: Role of Differential Life Stress
Co-sponsored with the Office of Population Research
Feb. 24, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm
Trent Smith
University of Bonn, Germany
Obesity and Nature's Thumbprint: How Modern Waistlines Can Inform Economic Theory
Mar. 3, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30
 Jonathan Gruber
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?
Mar. 10, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm
Lisa Berkman
Harvard University School of Public Health
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy
The Intersection of Social Isolation and Poverty
Co-sponsored with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mar. 24, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm		 Christopher Jencks
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults
Co-sponsored with the Office of Population Research
Mar. 26, 2003
International Center
(First 2nd Floor)
4:30pm		 Dr. R. Gordon Douglas '55; Tshaka Cunningham '96; Julie Stein '02; Dr. Lee Reichman
Social Responsibility and the Health Professions (A Panel Discussion)
Mar. 31, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm		 Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Angie Fertig
The Development of the Gradient: Earnings and Health Dynamics
Apr. 2, 2003
200 Fisher Hall
4:15pm		 Mark Duggan
Assistant Professor of Economics and of Social Sciences
University of Chicago
Does Medicaid Pay Too Much for Prescription Drugs?: A Case Study of Atypical Anti-Psychotics
Co-sponsored with Industrial Relations Section
Apr. 3, 2003
Dodds Auditorium
7:00pm		 Robert Pasternack
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
U.S. Department of Education
No Child Left Behind & Special Education: The View From Washington
Co-sponsored with Education Research Section, Educational Testing Service, Princeton Speech, Language & Learning Center, WWS Office of External Affairs
Apr. 7, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm		 Amy Finkelstein
Harvard Society of Fellows and National Bureau of Economic Research
Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from the Vaccine Industry
Apr. 14, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm		 Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Columbia University
SES Disparities in Health and Education During Childhood and Adolescence
Co-sponsored with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Apr. 28, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm		 Distinguished Lecture in Health and Development
Michael Bennish
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtuabatuba, South Africa
Confronting AIDS in Africa: A Perspective from a Rural Community
Co-sponsored with the Research Program in Development Studies
Apr. 29, 2003
300 Wallace Hall
12:00-1:30pm		 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Princeton University
Health, Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation
Co-sponsored with the Office of Population Research
 
Lectures and seminars from previous semesters:
Spring, 2001
Fall, 2001
Spring, 2002
Fall, 2002
Spring, 2003
Fall, 2003
Spring, 2004

Fall, 2004