The HCPDS and the Program on the Global Demography of Aging are pleased to sponsor a "Work in Progress" lunch series focusing on salient issues in population health, demography, and economics. These informal gatherings serve as opportunities for researchers to garner important feedback from others working in similar areas.

Sessions are scheduled on Fridays from 12:30 - 1:30 at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge. The presenter is expected to lecture on their work for 20-30 minutes with the remaining time left for audience response. Lunch will be provided.

We are now scheduling for Fall 2009. Please contact Kay Fabella at kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu to set-up a session.

Fall 2009 Schedule

Friday, September 18 
"Social Security Reform and Male Retirement" presented by David Canning, Ph.D, Professor of Economics, Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.

Friday, October 2
"Childhood Immunization and Human Capital Accumulation: A Natural Experiment from India" presented by Santosh Kumar, Bell Research Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Friday, October 16
"Getting to the Top of Mind: Limited Attention, Borrowing, and Saving" presented by Maggie McConnell, PGDA Research Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. (Joint work w/Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman)

Friday, October 30:
"Is wealth causally related to health in older Europeans? Using life-course inheritances to examine causal effects in 11 countries." Presented by Mauricio Avendano Pabon, Bell Research Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Friday, November 6
"Reproductive Ecology: The Environment, Food-Intake, Physical Activity, Adiposity, Leptin, and Female and Male Reproductive Health." Presented by Rose Frisch, Associate Professor of Population Sciences, Emerita, Harvard Center for Population Studies.

Friday, November 13
"Determinants of Fertility Decline: Evidence from Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa" presented by Rifat Hasan, PhD Candidate, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH.

Friday, November 20
"The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of their Children." Presented by Colm Harmon, Director of the Geary Institute and a Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. 

Friday, December 4
"Efficient Merging and Use of Demographic and Health Surveys," presented by Jocelyn Finlay, Research Associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Friday, December 11
"Title TBD" Presented by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Bell Research Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.