Saturday, April 3 / 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM   •   Berkeley

Session 151:
Community and Contextual Effects on Health and Mortality II

Chair: Sarah A. Burgard, University of Michigan
Discussant: Avery M. Guest, University of Washington

  1. Community Effects on Disaster-Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago HeatwaveChristopher Browning, Ohio State University ; Danielle Wallace, University of Chicago ; Seth L. Feinberg, Montana State University ; Kathleen A. Cagney, University of Chicago

  2. Learning from Neighbors: Social Learning about Child Feeding during Diarrheal EpisodesKirk Dearden, Brigham Young University ; Lant Pritchett, Harvard University and World Bank Group ; Jeff Brown, Harvard University

  3. Assimilation and Its Discontents: The Case of Low Birth-Weight in Los AngelesBrian K. Finch, RAND

  4. A Dynamic Model of Neighborhood SES and Racial Segregation on Health DisparitiesErin Ruel, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Stephanie A. Robert, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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