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April 16, 2008
The Department of Economics in LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business has been awarded approximately $40,000 by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation to host a conference about the economic aspects of obesity.
The conference will be organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research and will be held at LSU in November 2008. More details concerning time and location for the event will be announced later in the year. Additional major funding for the conference will be provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Founded in 1920, NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan economic research organization and is the world’s most prominent research organization in economics. Michael Grossman, the director of the Health Economics program of NBER, and Naci Mocan, the Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics at LSU and research associate of NBER, will organize the conference.
By bringing together prominent economists who conduct state-of-the-art research on the causes and consequences of obesity, as well as members of the public health, public policy and medical communities, the conference has the potential of making a significant impact on public policy focused on obesity. Original research findings presented at the conference will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
For more information about the E. J. Ourso College, visit www.bus.lsu.edu.
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Wendy Osborn Luedtke
LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business
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