This research theme includes the exploration of early developmental circumstances that may be crucial for shaping how we age, including nutrition, infectious disease, social support, education, and gene-environment interactions prenatally and during childhood. This theme is firmly rooted in understanding aging as a process that begins at conception, rather than being a discrete stage marked by having reached a specific biological age. PARC associates pursue research on the early-life determinants of mortality and health in diverse domestic and international contexts. This Chat will focus on how PARC can facilitate the use of exceptional cohort and/or multigenerational data for these research questions, stimulate comparative research on the early-life determinants of aging, facilitate collaborations between PARC associates and across affiliated centers to enhance the understanding of life-course determinants of aging and possible policy-responses that can help reduce health inequalities stemming from early-life adversities that predominantly affect some subsets of populations.
Speakers
- Jere Behrman: Health and Cognition Among Elderly Chileans
- Alberto Ciancio: Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-term Cardiovascular Effects of In-utero Famine Exposure
- Irma Elo & Anneliese Luck: American Mortality Project Works in Progress on COVID-19 Mortality Disparities
- Vikesh Amin: Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds
ATTENDEES
- Hans-Peter Kohler
- Jere Behrman
- Irma Elo
- Anneliese Luck
- Alberto Ciancio
- Vikesh Amin
- Raghav Gaiha
- Etienne Breton
- Isabel Yannatos
- Iliana Kohler
- Fanghong Dong
- Hannah Olson
- Xi Song
- Ari Friedman
- Yiyang Yuan
- Steve Boucher
- Shannon Crane (staff)
- Anita Lai (staff)