Hospital modernization improves health and reduces racial disparities. New AER @AEAJournals by Alex Hollingsworth from AEDE at Ohio State NBER Melissa Thomasson Krzysztof Karbownik Anthony Wray. aede.osu.edu/news/new-study…

Large-scale hospital modernisation in the 20th century reduced infant mortality rates and narrowed the Black-white infant mortality gap by one-quarter in the #US South. Alex Hollingsworth, Krzysztof Karbownik, M Thomasson Miami University Farmer School of Business, Anthony Wray ow.ly/C3L850SBe8p

Fun day with Dr Anne Fitzpatrick! Thanks for making the trip over!

In AEA Journals AER, @Ajhollingsworth, Krzysztof Karbownik, Thomasson & Anthony Wray show that hospital modernization 1927-1942 in disproportionately rural & Black North Carolina reduced infant & long-run mortality, w/ larger effects for Black residents. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

I am super excited to have Analisa Packham join the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management team! Welcome aboard, Analisa! 🌟

Large-scale hospital modernisation in the 20th century reduced infant mortality rates and narrowed the Black-white infant mortality gap by one-quarter in the #US South. Alex Hollingsworth, Krzysztof Karbownik, M Thomasson Miami University Farmer School of Business, Anthony Wray ow.ly/C3L850SBe8p

Today I wanted to do a 🧵 on an evergreen topic but one that lately I've had reason to reflect on: how to write a high-quality response to referees + editors (in economics). tl;dr: detailed + specific; diplomatic; careful cross-references to paper!

🚨Public good alert! 🚨#EconTwitter The public-use NUMIDENT is now available for download with nearly 50 million death records and 25 million claims records (1936-2007)! Link: doi.org/10.3886/E20720… 🧵1/N

Job-market candidates: - Download 10 JMPs in your field, read them in ≤5 hours, and rank them from best to worst. Now you know why recruiting committees value readability. - Editing improves paper quality. See RCT: doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo… (More at jdingel.com/teaching/advic…)

You can listen to my chat with Sebastian Tello-Trillo and Alex Hollingsworth about the book on The Hidden Curriculum podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hidde…

🚨 New Publication 🚨 We show community-level opioid use negatively impacts long-term economic development in research recently published in the Journal of Regional Science (Journal of Regional Science). Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

{marginaleffects} for #RStats recently won the 2023-24 Statistical Software Award from the Society for Political Methodology. It's a massive honor, because I have used and benefited a ton from software by literally all past winners. A feelings 🧵 1/5 polmeth.org/statistical-so…

Very excited about these Equitable Growth grants to early career scholars! Great people doing work that will be valuable to policymakers. equitablegrowth.org/early-career-s…

📢 UPCOMING VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and On PUBA will be hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Public Administration position with teaching interests in public policy to begin 8/1/25. Keep your 👀 out for the vacancy ad in the coming weeks.

🚨🚨We (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy) are hiring up to two new faculty members (Assistant Professors) in #HealthPolicy! We are specifically looking for researchers interested in #populationhealth (highlighted below) -- a key growth area for us. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/152931

Well it's labor day, which mean's NFL pre season is about to end and the regular season is about to start. Excited time. Also a good time to recognize the related research of two great students on the market this year from University of Oregon. Emily Arnesen and Kyu Matsuzawa.

The Econ job market is fast approaching, which means it's almost time again for me to post my "Women on the Econ JM" thread! A few tips for everyone on the market: 1. Make sure you post clearly on your website that you are "on the 2024-25 academic job market." There are lots of

The LBJ School is doing an open-rank tenure track health economist search this year. If there is anyone that you know who might be a good match, we'd appreciate it if you could let me know and/or pass the posting on to them. apply.interfolio.com/151343 Dell Medical School

1/ In our latest episode of #TheHiddenCurriculum, we had a great discussion with Sam about navigating academia as a queer economist.

🆕 Ahead-of-print in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: "The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes" by Karen Clay, Alex Hollingsworth (Alex Hollingsworth), and Edson Severnini (Edson Severnini) Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…