Session 1:
International comparisons of health/mortality
Chair: Michal Engelman, University of Chicago
Life expectancy during the great depression in eleven European countries • Tim-Allen Bruckner, University of California, Irvine ; Andrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine ; Ralph Catalano, University of California, Berkeley
Life expectancy and mortality in the three Baltic countries during 1990-2010: commonalities and differences • Juris Krumins, University of Latvia ; Natalja Dubkova, University of Latvia
The relative importance of frequency of contacts and time of exposure for the spread of directly transmitted infections • Alessia Melegaro, Università Bocconi ; Elisabetta De Cao, Università Bocconi ; Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Piero Manfredi, Università di Pisa
Mortality divergence across industrialized countries • Magdalena Muszynska, Warsaw School of Economics
The economic benefits of reducing health inequalities in eleven European populations • Marc Suhrcke, University of East Anglia ; Silvia Meggiolaro, Università di Padova ; Stefano Mazzuco, Università di Padova
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