🚨🚨New Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (EHEC) with the inaugural presentation by Kosali Simon Kosali Simon on Wednesday, April 22, 2:30 EDT/1:30 CDT. See attached flyer for registration and seminar schedule. @EGolberstein Sayeh Nikpay David Slusky

Kids rely on school meals, but distributing school meals puts workers, parents and kids at undue risk. Replace them with food vouchers ⁦@laurenlbauer⁩ and I argue in ⁦TheHillOpinion⁩ thehill.com/opinion/financ…

New! My coauthor Abby Pitts & I just released week 2 results from the COVID Impact Survey survey looking at #foodinsecurity & food pantries in May. Bad news: food insecurity is still up 2X-3X. ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2020/food…

News in Context! The new vaccine trial from yesterday: game changer? explaincovid.org/post/new-vacci…

bit.ly/2CcDH7z Yikes

I'm in the The Washington Post this morning on "pandemic pods" and inequality washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

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Over 400 Economists agree! Put simply, the Child Tax Credit expansion is good policy and we should make it permanent! Thank you to everyone who signed. You can find the final letter with list of signers here: hilaryhoynes.com/s/Economist-CT… #EconTwitter

CREED is back for 2022! The Carolina Region Empirical Economics Day will be held at the College of Charleston on May 12. More information here: cofc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z… Scott Barkowski Jeremy Moulton Lisa Schulkind

Empirical economists in the Carolinas (and nearby): CREED is moving to the fall! The next CREED conference will be 10/21 at UNC Greensboro. Apply by 9/15 here + more info: cofc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z… Scott Barkowski Lisa Schulkind Jeremy Moulton UNCG UNCG Research Bryan School at UNCG

Scott Barkowski Lisa Schulkind Jeremy Moulton UNCG UNCG Research Bryan School at UNCG

The loss of food programmes for children can induce mothers to protect their offspring by consuming less themselves. @mpbitler UC Davis J Currie, Hilary Hoynes Goldman School of Public Policy Krista Ruffini McCourt School, Lisa Schulkind UNC Charlotte @bartonwillage LSU ow.ly/qRkY50MmqSV

This year's Carolina Region Empirical Economics Day (CREED conference) will be held at University of South Carolina in Columbia on Oct 6th! Submissions due by Aug 15th at the link below! cofc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z… #Econtwitter #SouthCarolina #NorthCarolina #EmpiricalEconomics