1. The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Asthma Inpatient Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among World Trade Center Rescue Workers and Survivors • Jennifer Brite , City University of New York (CUNY); Howard Alper, World Trade Center Health Registry; James Cone, World Trade Center Health Registry; Stephen Friedman, World Trade Center Health Registry; Erin Takemoto, World Trade Center Health Registry.

2. Fetal Exposure to Cigarette Smoking and Adult and Old-Age Mortality: Examining the Effects of the Introduction of State-Level Cigarette Taxation 1921–1940 Using Linked Full-Count Census and Mortality Records • Jonas Helgertz , University of Minnesota/Lund University; John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota.

3. Pathways to Dependency and the Effects on Old-Age Mortality • Mathias Voigt ; Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Antonio Abellan, Center for Social Science and Humanities (CCHS-CSIC); Julio Pérez; Francisco Viciana, Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia.

4. The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence From a Representative Sample of American Twins, Siblings, and Neighbors • John R. Warren , University of Minnesota; Jonas Helgertz, University of Minnesota/Lund University; Andrew Halpern-Manners, Indiana University; Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota.