1)For 86 yrs, it's been legal for people with disabilities in certain jobs to be paid subminimum wages. The assumption: they're less productive & if not for these jobs, they would be unemployed. In this JAMA Health Forum, @atheendar & I ask if it’s true. tinyurl.com/23yu86jf

A new study from LDI Fellows found that in two states that repealed part of a 1938 law that allowed people with disabilities to be paid less than minimum wage, employment and labor force participation rose immediately. Read our Q&A with the authors: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

🚨 Happening today! @atheendar will be presenting "Political Power and Population Health: Heterogeneous Effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act," a joint project with Lizzie Bair (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy) and Rourke O’Brien (Yale). A must-see at the Yale University School of Public Health!

Upcoming talk at Vanderbilt University! On Feb 10, @atheendar will present at Health Policy Grand Rounds with a talk titled: "Unstuck: Reversing the U.S. Life Expectancy Decline." 🎤📊

Speaker highlight from session II: Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD on The American Dream and America's Health #CCEB #Upenn #FoHaHCC #ClinicalTrials #PSOM #HealthCare #ClinicalCare

What does it take for hospitals to be more than health care providers? At our recent seminar, experts explored how health systems are stepping up as anchor institutions — driving economic growth and tackling social determinants of health. Read the recap: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

🚨New paper alert🚨 My paper with Marcelo Ortiz-Villavicencio on "Better Understanding Triple Differences Estimators" is finally out. 📰 psantanna.com/files/DDD_OVS.… Main msg: Nuances in DDD designs challenge the practice of generally viewing DDD as the diff btw two DiDs. We can do better! 1/

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

🎉 Congrats to Andrew Anderson & Catherine Ettman receiving a Nexus Research Award for CLIMB Higher: Addressing Mental Health Through Policy Partnership for Economic Mobility!

“In the clinical context, researchers may wish to leverage natural experiments to estimate the causal impact of a particular treatment on a health outcome in situations where randomized clinical trial data are unavailable...” Read the Review Article: eviden.cc/4cth1fM

No impact is found for a monthly unconditional cash transfer on preregistered child development outcomes among 4 year olds among families with low income, from @kimberlygnoble, Katherine Magnuson, Greg Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, @hiroyoshikawaNY, Nathan A. Fox, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Sonya

Why do health inequalities persist + and what would it take to truly close the gap? ⚖️ Join LSE Health for an engaging webinar on 7 July feat. Maarten Lindeboom, Julia Lynch + Jennifer Dowd with Joan Costa Font + Emilie Courtin. REGISTER NOW:👉bit.ly/4jWYavW #RegisterNow

As health systems confront the social, economic, and political drivers underlying worsening U.S. population health, a new Perspective series examines the extent to which the business of health care may promote or impede progress. Learn more: nej.md/4etpu3D

Providing the first causal evidence on how occupational wage inequality undermines the labor movement, using three complementary research designs, from Barbara Biasi, Zoe Cullen, Julia H. Gilman, and @ninaroussille nber.org/papers/w33978

Our paper on modeling and measuring systemic discrimination is out in the QJE this month! Check it out (ungated): academic.oup.com/qje/article/14…

We thought health shocks through caregiving in couples would hurt labor outcomes. In the Dutch system, they didn’t. What we didn’t expect? The healthy partner’s own health declined—a lot. That’s the finding that stuck with us. 👇🏽