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Moving Forward by Looking Back: New Evidence that Early Life Shapes our Lifespan
February 19 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
FreeDemography Brown Bag Seminar
Jason Fletcher is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Institute for the Study of Labor. He is an affiliate at UW of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Data Science Institute, and Holtz Center, among others. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from UW in 2006.
He studies the integration of genetics and social science and the early life conditions that shape older-age health, mortality, and cognition. His first book, with Dalton Conley, The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future was published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. His work on US mortality is supported by the National Institute on Aging and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is currently summarizing these studies into a book.
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