As the dismantling of public health programs & agencies continues, worth remembering: 1) SNAP reduces childhood obesity www.nber.org/system/files... 2) LIHEAP helps people become more energy-secure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... & reduces evictions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This morning, I was notified that I was being terminated from ASPE due to the ongoing reductions in force in HHS. It's sad to end this chapter, having worked on so many important projects. I'll be looking for new roles; please give me a shout if anything comes your way!

A big benefit of working with federal contractors responsible for data munging is that you learn a LOT about how data is generated. This is especially useful with some big claims datasets. Knowing the process of how a row is created is invaluable.

🚨New Paper 🚨 In AJMC, Alli Dorneo, Steve Pizer, Christine Yee and I examine relationship btwn MA benefit value relative to VHA & reliance on VHA services. Tl;dr higher MA value increases MA enrollment, but cond. on MA, no change in reliance www.ajmc.com/view/veteran...

Proud to officially be an associate editor at Health Affairs Scholar as of this month! If you have policy-relevant papers across a wide range of health policy areas (e.g., MA, drug pricing, Medicaid), consider submitting to HAS! www.healthaffairs.org/health-affai...

Happy ERP day! The 2025 Economic Report of the President is out now! Chapters cover a wide range of topics incl. remote work and K-12 ed - be sure to check it out. I'm presenting the health policy chapter at Brookings next Wed, links below #econsky #healthpolicy www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

Really awesome to see some of the work I've done at ASPE cited in the Economic Report of the President www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-... aspe.hhs.gov/reports/expa...

Something often unappreciated: (without googling) by how much % did Traditional Medicare per capita spending grow from 2010 to 2019?

We are hiring predocs!! Come join us: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree... #econsky PLEASE RT! @aaronsojourner.org what was the version of @econ_ra here again? Sorry I forgot!

Hi #econsky 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ I would like to organize a session on the labor market of health care workers at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social conference I need one more paper (abstract) that fit this theme! If this is you, respond here or email me so we can connect!

Timeline cleanse!

Second time in a few months that I've been confused for another bald white guy at work. Time for Minoxidil?

A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

Question for the health policy folks here: Next semester, I'm teaching for the first time an MPH course on The Politics of US Health Policy. Does anyone have: A) A reasonably up-to-date syllabus for such a course that I could see, or B) An article (or articles) they'd like me to assign? Thanks!

Bill was a smart and talented researcher, but more importantly, just a good human being.

Paging health economists #EconSky 📉📈! If you have a paper on caregiving (elderly and disabled) and are intending to go to#ASHEcon2025 @ashecon.bsky.social, please ping me as I am looking for a third paper for my student's session.

Enrollment in MA Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) has more than tripled over the past decade, but how different are these plans from standard MA plans? Grace McCormack, Rachel Wu, and I investigate this question in the context of provider networks. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/3B7KU...

Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Today is the prioritized application review deadline for a TT Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management at the University of South Carolina. Come apply and be a future colleague of mine uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/175...

I'm increasingly liking the idea of not directly interpreting parameters and instead looking at predictions/margins. Is someone going to take away my economist card?

Hi all! I am Travis Whitacre, an Applied Microeconomist and Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Public Health. I am on the Economic Job Market this year. Learn more about me, as well as a link to my JMP: traviswhitacre.github.io Some highlights of the paper: #EconJMP #EconSky

📈📉New Census Working Paper "Nonresponse and Coverage Bias in the Household Pulse Survey: Evidence from Administrative Data" by Jonathan Eggleston and Carl Lieberman www.census.gov/library/work...

Hey #Medicare experts, I'm trying to put together a reading list that touches on core economic issues in Medicare with seminal readings. What should I add to this list? @yfeyman.bsky.social @djmeyers2.bsky.social @rozmurray.bsky.social

Reporting of Russian torture and execution policies on occupied territories. We knew this was going on since 2014. Only deoccupation stops it, and allows the investigations needed for justice. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

Zionist manipulation obviously

For a few years now, universities have been requiring DEI-oriented reviews of syllabi, DEI statements from new faculty etc. I think there's value in gauging how committed someone is to improving diversity and equity particularly in academia. 1/

None of these people gave the order to shell or invade Gaza Innocent Jewish folk around the world are facing terror and must be protected as much as every Palestinian civilian This fucking sucks

Please share widely 🙏 Our PhD students are an integral part of our department. We aim to support them mentally and monetarily to make the PhD years as fun and productive as possible. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Some lefty Jews say that their Jewish values require them to support Palestinian liberation. I can get behind that, but first and foremost my Jewish values require me to *oppose* antisemitic terrorism and mobs trying to scare Jews into silence.

So, uh, this is REALLY BAD and if you have ANY connection to the University of Michigan, you need to take steps NOW to protect your identity. (Contra the headline, it's not just employees and students; it's also alumni, donors, and possibly some research participants.)

Has anyone scraped dispensary data from Leafly or Weedmaps? @bradfowd1.bsky.social

If you're looking for ways to help in Israel & Gaza: I donated to 2 groups. 1) The Brothers and Sisters of Israel (aid-coalition.org/donate/broth...), supporting Israeli victims 2) The Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (pcrf.net), a group delivering aid and medical relief to children in Gaza.

Fascism when Russia does it and fascism when Israel does it. Gross.

🚨 We are looking for research director for Pew's Science & Society program. Open to academics, journalists & policy folks with experience using surveys to write about debates surrounding climate change, energy, vaccines, trust in scientists, etc. 🧪 pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

In good news, my first dissertation paper just got accepted for publication!

If your response to the recent events in Israel is anything except "this is awful," go ahead and unfollow/block me.

I've seen people refer to polynomial based RD as non parametric. And maybe I'm dumb but that seems wrong. Isn't a polynomial a *very* strong parametric assumption?

We’re hiring postdocs in health policy at Stanford! Come join our team in the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab to work on health and economic modeling that helps guide public health decision making around infectious disease. goto.stanford.edu/Salomon-postdoc #healthpolicy #episky #medsky 🛟 🩺📊

Me: don't say endogeneity don't say endogeneity

Any recommendations for English-language Bluesky accounts with reliable reporting on the attacks in Israel?

GSA's Office of Evaluation Sciences is looking for a Division Director to oversee large-scale evaluations across the federal government. Remote position at GS-15 with a salary of $136,908 - $183,500 per year. Applications due by 11/3 at www.usajobs.gov/job/752919800. #socsky #econsky #academicsky

One thing I miss most about NYC is the awesome okonomiyaki place off of St marks.

The Potential for SHIPs to Combat Medicare Misinformation and Deceptive Marketing - new from BUSPH doctoral students/PEPReC trainees Alli Dorneo and David Biko, and Kacey Dugan theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/th...

Finally time to share my paper w/ @donmoyn.bsky.social as part of the #TacklingStructuralRacism issue in @Health_Affairs > Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program doi.org/10.1377/hlth... #OpenAccess

Do you enjoy working with health care claims data on policy-relevant topics? Come work at Brookings as a Senior Research Programmer, working closely with me, Matt Fiedler, Richard Frank, & Marta Wosinska. careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3292/se...

🚨 New WP 🚨 Joint with Brooks Bowden & Viviana Rodriguez, we analyze the impacts of a policy that explicitly lowered grading standards in high school for all students. Full version here: www.edworkingpapers.org/sites/defaul... Thread below

#Econsky We're looking to hire someone to help us level up our graphics/figures/presentation of results? Has anyone done this before. We have in mind someone who can work on a project-by-project basis, rather than hiring someone in-house.

I have a paper on higher ed expansion, structural transformation, and firm productivity in Vietnam that I'm looking for seminar feedback. Does anyone have a spot in their seminar/brown bag that I can sign up for?

Hi all! I'm Kyle at CU Boulder in the Economics department (and a job market candidate !!). I mostly tweet about my papers and my open source software/resources. I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...

PSA: If you use #rstats {tidycensus} (or really anything from the Census API), the US Census API will get shut down if the government shuts down in a couple days, so download whatever you need now.