Sad to inform you that the econometricians are back at it.

Yayy for Instrumental Variables! (Yes, yes, I know- all IVs are questionable. Leave me alone!)

Marie Kondo has been reviewer #2 this entire time!!!!

New in JAMA Pediatrics : Inspired by the amazing Alison Gemmill , Maria Gallo, PhD & I find higher-than-expected infant mortality rates (overall) and markedly higher infant mortality with congenital anomalies following the Dobbs decision, nationally in the US. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

📰 New on our blog: Comprehensive sanitation in India: Despite progress, an unfinished agenda #SwachhBharatMission #WASH IFPRI South Asia Suman Chakrabarti Soyra Gune Parvati Singh CGIAR 🔗ifpri.org/blog/comprehen…

This is the first study to show that selection in utero against male twins declines following favorable ambient exposures, yielding more live male twins births in the population. Really really cool work and implications for male twinning as a gauge of collective optimism!!

Getting a PhD is amazing because everyone calls you "doctor" but only sarcastically when you mispronounce something

No words... dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

Ok whoever started the fad of "ARIMA time-series analysis with an exogenous exposure/shock is not ITS", please come see me. I will take u out for coffee & explain how you understand neither method & are focused on terminology rather than content. #RantOver #AcademicChatter

ADHD diagnoses among children increase on Halloween, consistent with changes in behavior and highlighting subjectivity in the medical diagnosis, from Chris Worsham, Charles Bray, and Anupam Jena nber.org/papers/w33232

Amidst all the current insanity, if you're interested in the relation b/w unconditional cash transfers & male twin births, here's my new paper with Nick Mark Sarah K. Cowan TL/DR: male twin births ⬆️ with ⬆️ in Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend payments doi.org/10.1017/thg.20…

If you want to control the price of eggs, you need to control bird flu. And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data.

A big thank you to my OSU family for this honor ❤️

🚨My new paper w/ Samantha Gailey Tim Bruckner & Rania Badran on payday lending bans & preterm births in the US in Epidemiology Got the idea for this paper a few years ago from Last Week Tonight 's episode on payday loans (credit where it's due 😄). journals.lww.com/epidem/abstrac…

New paper out today in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology We find a national-level increase in suicides among reproductive-aged women post Dobbs in the US, particularly among 15-24 yo group. Restriction of reproductive autonomy harms mental health. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"Find unserious people who do serious work. " - CPH student speaker Lindsey's Aunt Pam. THIS IS GOING ON MY DOOR. ❤️❤️👩‍🎓

Huge congratulations to Arbor Quist for winning the First Prize in poster session at the SER 2025 conference!! A woohoo!!! The Ohio State University College of Public Health

Thankful for this important work w/ Jonathan Powell Maria Gallo, PhD Payal Chakraborty Colleen Reynolds Morgan Anderson. We find national increase in 9-1-1 activations for obstetric conditions among 15-49-yo women post Dobbs, pronounced in protective states --> spillover effects on health care systems.

Check out this new paper on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cigarette use in the US by the amazing Geoffrey Carney-Knisely, PhD CTTS. Such a privilege and honor to have been a part of his dissertation journey!

What happens when the U.S. restricts H-1B visas? Firms don’t stop hiring talent, they just move jobs abroad. For every visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.