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Session 9:
Community and Contextual Effects on Health and Mortality I
Thursday, Apr 1
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Beacon A
3rd Floor
Chair: Narayan Sastry, RAND
Discussant: Anne Pebley, University of California, Los Angeles

1.  Health Dynamics and the Evolution of Health Inequality over the Life Course: The Importance of Neighborhood and Family Background  •   Rucker C. Johnson, University of Michigan; Bob Schoeni, University of Michigan

2.  Community Subcultural Orientation and Mortality following Life-Threatening Diseases in Older Life  •   Ming Wen, University of Utah; Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School

3.  Child Mortality in India: Exploring the Community-Level Effect of Education  •   Oystein Kravdal, University of Oslo

4.  The Interaction of Community Factors and Individual Characteristics on Child Height in China  •   Feng Zhao, World Bank Group

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