Monday, Feb. 27
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Michael Haines
Department of Economics, Colgate University
“The Welfare of Children during the Great Depression”
Background paper:
"Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief During the Great Depression"
co-authors Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

Monday, March 6
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Matthew Neidell
Department of Health Policy and Management,
Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
"Spillover Effects of Early Education: Evidence from
Head Start"

Daniel Kahneman
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University "The Structure of Well-Being in Two Countries" in collaboration with David Schkade, Claude Fischler, Amy Krilla

Monday, March 27
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Sunil Amrith
Research Fellow Trinity College, University of Cambridge
"Health and Well-Being in Colonial and Post-colonial India"

Monday, April 10
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Werner Troesken
Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
"Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition,
1850-1925"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)

Monday, April 17
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Hoyt Bleakley
Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
"Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)

Gerard van den Berg
Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Health & Wellbeing -
Professor of Economics, Free University Amsterdam
"Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life"

Angus Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs. Professor of Economics and International Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
"Death and Money: Historical, International, and Domestic Aspects of the Health-wealth Relationship"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)

Lectures and seminars from previous semesters:

Spring, 2001

Fall, 2001

Spring, 2002

Fall, 2002

Spring, 2003

Fall, 2003

Spring, 2004

Fall, 2004