Atheendar Venkataramani
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Physician and health economist.
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Courtney Boen
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🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨 Forthcoming in
@sfjournal.bsky.social
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@ngraetz.bsky.social
@atheendar.bsky.social
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The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality
Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo
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Eric Schneider
2 days ago
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register:
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Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
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Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
https://forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2sk5Dm9
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
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Excited to post a new working paper with
@instrumenthull.bsky.social
and Michal Kolesár:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
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Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual
We develop a step-by-step guide to leniency (a.k.a. judge or examiner instrument) designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures. The unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator (UJIVE) is...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
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Ben Chrisinger
1 day ago
Update: today, 16.8 million people should have *full* SNAP benefits for November. They don't. Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day. This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth. 🛟 🥗 🩺📊
#econsky
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1/ New paper w/
@rourkeobrien.bsky.social
,
@clowenstein.bsky.social
, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on
#mortality
by race and age -- and the potential importance of
#status
#threat
in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
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Andy Cherewick
11 months ago
Concentrations: Live! 18”x16”
#painting
#art
🎨
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Michael L. Barnett
3 days ago
wild set of results from
@atheendar.bsky.social
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NBER
3 days ago
The 1975 Voting Rights Act extension lowered mortality for most nonwhite groups but raised it for white adults and older nonwhite men, patterns consistent with status threat, from Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, and Christopher A. Lowenstein
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
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1/ New paper w/
@rourkeobrien.bsky.social
,
@clowenstein.bsky.social
, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on
#mortality
by race and age -- and the potential importance of
#status
#threat
in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
4 days ago
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Adrianna McIntyre
4 days ago
Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
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I've learned so much working with George. He is so creative and committed to improving the economic security of patients of all ages. Awesome to see this
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Maximilian Kasy
5 days ago
Just out in the New York Times: My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com
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Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion/ai-privacy.html
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I'm writing a book on this and why I think it's happening. Here are some forces at play that may explain our poor performance with life expectancy since the 1980s.
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Elizabeth Linos
6 days ago
There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.
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NBER
7 days ago
Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and
@bhashmazumder.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34407
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris
8 days ago
The people who need SNAP assistance come from varying circumstances. I spoke with a woman in rural Idaho who needed food stamps after her partner died by suicide when she was 11 weeks pregnant. And some have pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes — which requires a strict diet to control.
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Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows
Without action from Congress before Saturday, millions nationwide will be cut off from access to government food assistance, including those who are pregnant or have babies and young children.That pos...
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/losing-snap-could-mean-more-pregnancy-complications-food-insecurity-grows
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Working with sociologists
@courtneyboen.bsky.social
and
@rourkeobrien.bsky.social
has been a game-changer for me. I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
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9 days ago
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Unlearning Economics
10 days ago
Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996
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Hard agree. People only are interested in the take-down. Even when those are published no one really reads the reply.
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10 days ago
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Corinne Low
11 days ago
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
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Stephen Nuñez
12 days ago
"We conducted a host of sensitivity analyses and found our model was robust to a variety of assumptions and alternative specifications." Translation: "I released my imposter syndrome from its mental prison, dialed up my anxiety to max and imagined the ways I could be made to look like a fraud"
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NBER
14 days ago
Examining the causal effects of cellphone bans in Florida on student test scores, suspensions, and absences, from David N. Figlio and Umut Özek
www.nber.org/papers/w34388
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Qualitative evidence of the impact of
#malaria
eradication in the U.S. on worker productivity, from a 1916 study:
www.jstor.org/stable/45733...
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This 1962 classic on
#health
as
#human
capital by Selma Mushkin in the JPE -- preceding the Grossman JPE paper by 10 years -- is a criminally underrated classic:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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15 days ago
I wrote a little thing about my research for the LSE Business Review. (I did not pick the title or image 🙃)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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What caused the American decline of the past 60 years? - LSE Business Review
A generational perspective provides a unifying view of many aspects of American decline (in education, labour and health) over the last 60 years.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/10/21/what-caused-the-american-decline-of-the-past-60-years/
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Super interesting study. We found the exact opposite in the US setting:
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
But there was substantial heterogeneity. These results from China underscore the fact that automation can be net good for health depending on how it affects labor markets.
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17 days ago
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Joshua Goodman
21 days ago
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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I'm posting this as a pre-committment device to complete this by the end of the year. 15 years in the making (with the second R&R 5 years in the making - we have no expectations).
21 days ago
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Penn declines to sign the compact. Way to go!
22 days ago
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Really proud of our team, disseminating findings on (1) the IGNITE study of concentrated investment in low-income neighborhoods (which is nearing completion) + (2) work on the drivers of life expectancy trends in the US (w/
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
@rourkeobrien.bsky.social
@astokespop.bsky.social
)
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23 days ago
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NBER
23 days ago
A North Carolina police alternatives program diverts nonviolent 911 calls to civilians, reducing criminalization and increasing community engagement, with evidence of fiscal sustainability, from Bocar A. Ba, Patton Chen, Tony Cheng, Martha C. Eies, and Justin E. Holz
www.nber.org/papers/w34344
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NEJM.org
23 days ago
In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Uganda, the use of permethrin-treated baby wraps significantly reduced the incidence of clinical malaria among young children. Full trial results and Research Summary:
nej.md/4msFwwX
#MedSky
#PedSky
#IDSky
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Aaron Schwartz
24 days ago
This is a remarkable portrait of how one can dive into life despite physical fragility, or because of it.
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Trevon Logan
24 days ago
Through segregation, violence, redlining, and sundown towns, Black families traveled. How did they know where to go? What places were safe? What places were welcoming? Search the data on this important part of American history:
greenbookproject.osu.edu
#GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap
#EconSky
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I hope people find this generative. There are a lot of policy effects that are larger and quicker than what we would expect (based on what the policy actually does).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
25 days ago
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Robert Kelchen
25 days ago
A new NBER working paper by
@jscottclayton.bsky.social
and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.
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Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34366
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What is the sports equivalent of this? Ohtani to the Dodgers? Did MIT get draft picks?
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28 days ago
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I've made a research career out of pointing out problems. Sometimes this research tells us something new about society (and thats good). Sometimes not (and that's mostly useless). I've offered few solutions. I like maybe 1 out of 4 papers I've written. What is the point of all this work?
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
about 1 month ago
New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
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Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
https://www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com/p/prof-elizabeth-wrigley-field-discusses
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David Evans
about 1 month ago
Is there a tool to assess risk of bias that economists commonly use or like? Most tools I've seen seem to be built around medical studies (whether experimental or quasi-experimental). Some elements seem relevant but many others less so.
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
about 1 month ago
(1) banger (2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)
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I did a five month experiment where I signed off all social media. I felt smarter + less angry and distracted.
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about 1 month ago
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Population Aging Research Center
about 1 month ago
This
@pennldi.bsky.social
post discusses recent Op-Ed:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
↪️ Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health in
@NEJM.org
doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...
by PARC Research Associate Atheendar Venkataramani
@atheendar.bsky.social
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PennMedCSO (@pennmedcso.bsky.social)
In @nejm.org, Atheendar Venkataramani (@pennmehp.bsky.social) & co discuss how public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of…
https://bsky.app/profile/pennmedcso.bsky.social/post/3lxfpvlsk5c2l
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Aaron Schwartz
about 1 month ago
Today's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the discoverers of regulatory T-cells. How could this discovery about our immune systems change the world? Here is one possible way: leading to treatments for terrible neurological diseases. (1/3)
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Why do people think this website is good? No one is engaging. There is little discussion. It's just all of us saying stuff in parallel.
about 1 month ago
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Chelsea Parlett
about 1 month ago
It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions
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Mirya R. Holman
about 1 month ago
"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."
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JAMA
about 1 month ago
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, helped define the field of translational bioinformatics and inspired countless colleagues and trainees. He will be remembered for his brilliant mind, infectious optimism, generous mentorship.
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Remembering Atul Butte
This Medical News article is in remembrance of Atul Butte, MD, PhD, a pioneer in using data science to improve health.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/10.1001/jama.2025.17479?guestAccessKey=ade8fdb2-433b-4d2c-91bd-c7397cafdbfe
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Missing data means AI will be as dumb as we are? Interesting paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12388
about 1 month ago
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Trevon Logan
about 1 month ago
Good history helps us avoid nostalgia. The great article “Economic History and the Historians” (2020) by Anne McCants reminds me why nostalgia can get us in trouble. Two of her examples are very relevant to today: vaccinations and the popular narrative of some economic “good old days.”
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