How do households change their consumption and household balance sheets in response to large, but time-limited, unconditional cash transfers? We study an experiment that provided $1000 a month for 3 years to 1000 young, low-income households. 1/

New in Health Affairs, led by Sanjay Basu, Dean Schillinger. "The Risk Of Perpetuating Health Disparities Through Cost-Effectiveness Analyses" Basic idea: standard CEA can perpetuate systemic discrimination in other markets healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…

For health economists interested in physician decision making, Janet Currie's new NBER working paper includes a 22 page appendix with some of the best papers in this area, all in a tabular format. This will become indispensable to me.

Tune in tomorrow!! OfH Director Atheendar Venkataramani will be presenting “Wealth, Public Policy, and Racial Disparities in Longevity” at the NEO Black Health ’s “State of Reparations in the Black Community” virtual conference. Link below 👇🏽

Susan Athey, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, presented a lecture at the New Developments in Experimental Design and Analysis conference on "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning" at Summer Institute. youtube.com/watch?v=i5kyzT…

The late Martin Wittenberg did ‘world-class work’ in researching income distribution in South Africa timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o…

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947" by Nicholas Reynolds. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

🗞️ 🚨A study led by Sasmira Matta, co-authored by Atheendar Venkataramani and Paula Chatterjee, was recently covered in a Knowledge at Wharton article. Read the full story on how health care organizations may not be sufficiently investing in lower-wage health care workers here: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/are-he….

There are good arguments for removing race from medical algorithms, but there may be unintended consequences. Our PNAS paper finds that race-blind algorithms can *worsen* racial inequalities, bc they can't adjust for racial disparities in data quality. shorturl.at/7ugW5

Come with with us! We're looking for driven people who are motivated to solve big problems using the best possible methods. In addition to the mission-driven work, we are really committed to mentoring and teaching. I promise you it'll be worth your time!

PARC Associate Atheendar Venkataramani helped plan and will moderate a session: Identifying Midlife Social Exposures that Might Modify Risk for Cognitive Impairment Associated with Early Life Disadvantage: A Workshop August 29–30, 2024 | In-person & Online REGISTER: events.nationalacademies.org/43209_08-2024_…

1/ New micro-to-macro paper alert! 👇👇👇👇 How much does inflation matter for inequality? To address this question, I'm very excited to share new inflation series by income, age, race and other socio-demographic characteristics in the United States. 👉xavierjaravel.com/_files/ugd/bac…

Many health economists have joined the more open alternative to this place. Here's a list that makes it easy to join: go.bsky.app/Q3ajYW5 Here's Atheendar Venkataramani's list for population health: bsky.app/starter-pack-s… Ping me there if you join and I'll add you.

🚨🚨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

It was super fun to work on this review - I learned a ton from my coauthors 🙏 and from reading so many cool new papers! 😎Check it out!

🚨New WP Alert🚨 Jen-Kuan Wang and I analyze Taiwan's 1950s land reform, long seen as central to its economic takeoff—and to the East Asian Miracle. By digitizing archival data, we bring new causal evidence to the table. What we find is surprising! oliverwkim.com/papers/KimWang…

I'm so excited for Mihir Kakara - NYU Grossman School of Medicine, you are lucky to get him! Mihir is a rising star and has some fantastic work in the pipeline on the health and economic consequences of #disability policy. I've learned so much from him and can't wait to see what's next!

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.