Session Chairs:

Asia Sikora, Cornell University

Papers:

"Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Effects of Rising Obesity Rates, Hospital Ownership Structure, Aging Population and Government Policy"
Anusua Datta, Philadelphia University (Contact Author)
Donald Vandegrift, The College of New Jersey

"Measuring the Effect of Body Weight on Occupational Attainment"
Xiaoshu Han, Mount Union College (Contact Author)

"A Head Above the Rest: Height and Adolescent Psychological Wellbeing"
Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver
Joseph J. Sabia, American University (Contact Author)
Laura M. Argys, University of Colorado Denver

"Brains Versus Brawn: Occupational Determinants of Cognitive Ability Among Older Americans"
Asia Sikora, Cornell University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Barry R. Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kristine Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan D. Fisher, Litigation Analytics, Inc.
Zeynep Isgor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session Chairs:

David N. van der Goes, Lehigh University

Papers:

"Social Capital and Health of Elderly People with the Advent of the Baby-Boom Generation’s Aging"
Bosu Seo, University of Manitoba (Contact Author)
Ben Senauer, University of Minnesota

"Health and Economic Growth – A Theoretical and Longitudinal Study on the Developed and Less Developed Economies"
I-Ming Chiu, Rutgers University-Camden (Contact Author)

"The Color of Gray: Aging Population and Its Effect on Economic Growth in China, 1978-2020"
Michiko Y Hayhurst, Texas Woman's University (Contact Author)
Mark O. Tengesdal, Texas Woman's University

Discussants:

Xiaoshu Han, Mount Union College
Lewis S. Davis, Union College
Phuong V. Ngo, Boston University
Jie Chen, College of Staten Island/City University of New York