Saturday, April 13 / 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM Meeting Room 203 (Level 2)

Session 216
Health Effects of Social Welfare Policies

Chair: Michael D. M. Bader, American University
Discussant: Claus C. Portner, Seattle University

1. Estimating the Effect of County Spending on Life Expectancy Through Structural Equation ModelingNeha Anand , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Carolina Cardona, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Natalia Alfonso, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; J. P. Leider, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Mac MacCullough, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Beth Resnick, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; David Bishai, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

2. A Breath of Fresh Air: The Cumulative Effects of Public Housing Exposure on Childhood AsthmaMichael Evangelist , University of Michigan; Sarah Seelye, University of Michigan; Lucie Kalousova, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

3. Cash Transfers and Mental Health: Evidence From South AfricaKevin Feeney , University of Southern California.

4. The Effects of Housing Reconstruction on Post-Disaster Psychosocial HealthMaria Laurito , Duke University; Elizabeth Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Cecep Sumantri, SurveyMETER; Duncan Thomas, Duke University.

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