Congratulations to 2024 Diversity Scholarship recipient Angela Shoulders, U of SC Economics.

Learn more about the Diversity Scholarship here: ashecon.org/2024-san-diego…

Sponsored by Dalio Philanthropies, Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine, @CommonwealthFnd and Arnold Ventures

So great to have Emily Lawler UGA PADP UGA NBER visit KU Economics KU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences University of Kansas!

🎉First published paper alert!

I'm so excited that my work with Butler University's Dr. Kathy Paulson Gjerde on the impact of social media on a #Broadway show's economic success has been published in Applied Economics Letters!

A short 🧵on the paper!

📢 Call for Papers! HCHE invites to the 9th Workshop in Behavioral & Experimental Health Economics by BEH net on Oct 7-8, 2024. Papers can be submitted on various health economics topics using experimental methods, regardless of whether they are conducted in lab or field. 1/2

What an amazing day at UMass Resource Economics with Brandyn Churchill Lucy Xiaolu Wang Jamie T. Mullins Sparshi Srivastava Bijesh Gyawali and more!

Next week Wendesday, March 6, 2:30pm EDT Travis Donahoe presents 'Supplier Enforcement and the Opioid Crisis” Register here: bit.ly/3x5cf7u
cc: Orgül Öztürk Jason Mose Willa Friedman David Bradford David Slusky Shooshan Danagoulian @shooshan.bsky.social Sayeh Nikpay

1/9 📢New NBER w Monica Deza Thanh T. Lu Alberto Ortega on health insurance & crime📢

We study the impact of losing insurance on crime by leveraging one of the most substantial Medicaid disenrollments in US history

nber.org/papers/w32227?…

Please sign the @ashecon letter responding to CMSGov proposal to move research to the VRDC: docs.google.com/document/d/1Pq… drafted with Colleen Carey Eric T. Roberts highlighting ways this would harm #EconTwitter research

Looks like my job’s safe for a while … it’s 0.27 in February.

My friend Erik Grönqvist ([email protected]) Department of Economics, Uppsala’s center hefuu.uu.se is hiring for a 2-year post-doc in #healthecon starting by July 1. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to live in Sweden in Uppsala or Stockholm. Email him for details

Amazing to host my Princeton Economics academic sibling Dan Zeltzer Tel Aviv University Stanford Economics Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research for a KU Economics seminar today on healthcare tech! We also did the Kansas Jayhawks Jayhawks Essential Tour and saw the Dole Institute of Politics archives. And Mandy Gaulke K-State Economics drove in!

📢 Call for papers. Submit your paper to the 'Gender and Work' workshop that will take place in Barcelona, October 14 and 15, 2024. Confirmed keynotes: Olle Folke and Paola Profeta . More here👇: events.bse.eu/event/13828-wo…

Nominate an outstanding peer, colleague, or student! The awards highlight both burgeoning and established leaders in the health economics field and will be given at the ASHEcon Conference in June 2024.

Learn more: ashecon.org/awards/
⏰ Deadline: March 13, 2024

What a fabulous first day of my visit to MU Dept of Economics @Mizzou! So great to see Liisa Laine🌻 Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇦 Brittany Street and meet Irma Arteaga Jennifer Mayo Alyssa H Carlson @ProfSakuz. It’s an amazing department full of applied researchers. Plus I got to use their parking space!

David Slusky & Lilly Springer published a new EconoFactOrg memo discussing their findings that physician mothers have worse birth outcomes than lawyer mothers and that a work hour reform did little to improve physician birth outcomes
econofact.org/occupational-h…

Today, the CEA published a blog highlighting the policy decisions that led to three consecutive years of record-breaking ACA Health Insurance Marketplace enrollment, placing this trend in the broader context of insurance coverage trends. 1/
whitehouse.gov/cea/written-ma…

Hey health #econtwitter !
I have joined the Folland, Goodman, Stano's author team for the 9th edition of Economics of Health and Health Care! 📚Most substantive update and new chapters which I will previews in the next few weeks. Released January 31, 2024.
amazon.com/Economics-Heal…

📢It’s timmmeeeeee!! I am excited to tell you about a new working paper, “Accessing the Safety Net: How Medicaid Affects Health and Recidivism,” joint with David Slusky.

NBER link: nber.org/papers/w31971
IZA link: docs.iza.org/dp16665.pdf

Abstract:

This week we (Alex Hollingsworth) talk with Andrew Friedson on publishing a book. Andrew recently release a textbook on health Econ, and he explain to us how that process came about it. Also, there is a giveaway of the book! Just share this tweet or the episode on any social media

So excited!!!