Saturday, March 31 / 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   •   Empire/Hudson

Session 133:
Life Course Perspectives on Health: Effects of Early Environments

Chair: Linda Adair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Paula Griffiths, Loughborough University

  1. Childhood Health, Nutrition, and Average Adult Height in Low-Income CountriesYoko Akachi, Harvard School of Public Health ; David Canning, Harvard University

  2. Seeking Evidence for Finch and Crimmins’s Hypothesis of Inflammatory Exposure: The Effect of Canton of Birth on Costa Rican Elderly’s Health.Gilbert Brenes, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Central American Center for Population

  3. Black-White Differences in the Relationship between Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Adult HealthMary Elizabeth Hughes, Duke University

  4. The Timing of Early-Life Health and Socioeconomic DisadvantageMargot I. Jackson, University of California, Los Angeles

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