SSI provides cash payments to over a million families who have children w disabilities. Do these substantial payments—which make up ~half of total income for recipients—improve kids’ outcomes? We use a cutoff in SSI eligibility for infants based on birthweight to investigate.

Copilot is live in the most recent normal release of RStudio, btw. Tools -> Global Options -> Copilot

This new JAMA article from former @pennmehp.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow Katharine Press Callahan, "Discarding Information," is marvelous. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We demand the most of families when they have the least. When kids are young, care is most resource intensive to produce, families have the least earning power, & the public invests the least in kids & families. The crises in housing & child care both go back to this central fact.

In many of my papers, the key result is shown via a table, but I make a simple bar graph to use in talks, at least to broader audiences. I wish we all made and posted these; I'm much more likely to show someone's result in a keynote or for teaching if there is a good figure.

I was looking for a good example of Simpson's paradox for teaching and stumbled across this excellent one. Colored lines scientifically hand-drawn by me. Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

After 8+ years I'm proud to say our paper "The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment" is forthcoming at ReStat! Joint w/ Marty Gaynor @raffasadun.bsky.social Chad Syverson + job market candidate (!!!) Shruthi Venkatesh PDF: sacarny.com/wp-content/u...

For All, the Minneapolis Fed OIGI magazine, covers our research on patients traveling across regions for medical care: www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2023... (With @gottliebecon.bsky.social Lozinski & Mourot)

We are hiring! Come work with as a Program Manager, at the Penn Development Research Initiative- DevLab. Your primarily responsible would be managing a portfolio of research projects. Our team is fun, the university benefits are generous, and the city is great. Details at: shorturl.at/flIJY

Hello #econsky! I am an associate professor at UNC Greensboro studying (mostly) health economics. My recent work has been around using human mobility data to study reproductive health and public health policy. But be on the lookout for more work around higher education policy!

I wrote a book with Tal Gross! "Better Health Economics: An Introduction for Everyone" If you want to hear me discuss some of the material from the book, come to the ASSA continuing education session Jan 7-9 (I’ll be including some of the material from my book in my Health Economics lectures)

Anyone have an NBER invite code?

New here, so by way of intro: I'm a PhD candidate in Health Services Research at Brown University on the job market. I study opportunities to improve the value of health care spending (w/a focus on Medicare Advantage & commerical) and previously worked at the Mass HPC. hannahjames.me 🩺📊