Crime economists, please submit your papers to TxECW 2026! Deadline has been extended to December 12, 2025

If you have students looking to pursue a PhD in health policy, Pitt HPM is accepting applications! No bias, but we have a great department with faculty studying wide-ranging subjects— opioids, public & private insurance, reproductive health, administrative burden, and more! Plus Pittsburgh is great.

Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

The California Policy Lab is hiring a Researcher/Senior Researcher, focused on health & safety net in California: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...

Dan Sacks and I are looking for a postdoc to work on Medicaid evaluation projects at UW-IRP. See posting: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-... . Email your resume and cover letter to Tim Connor at [email protected]. For any questions regarding the position, please contact Dan Sacks at [email protected]

I have leftover funding for a PhD student for one year (ideally Sept '25 - Sept '26). Might be a good fit for someone wanting to delay going on the market. Please send interested students my way!

I am giving a talk in Essen, Germany this week, August 12-15. If you’re in town and would like to chat, drop me a line.

A new & exclusive interview with the winners of #NIHCM's 2025 Research Award on the corporatization of independent hospitals. Read the Research Insights for more: bit.ly/44j8yrP

Take a look a fresh work on the Texas ACA with, indeed, great colleagues.

Some news on my research.

Completely crazy story and a good example why econ journals should sometimes include content experts outside the econ field in peer review

Many congratulations to @atulllguptaa.bsky.social and team — finalists for a 2025 Research Award for their JPE Micro paper on the corporatization of independent hospitals. A powerful and timely contribution to health policy research! nihcm.org/awards/resea...

Hi #EconSky! I was on the market this past cycle, specifically focused on the DC-Maryland-Virginia area because my fiancé is at the Fed Board (we get married this May). I had a few government offers, all of which ended up being affected by the current civil service cuts.

Congrats @bluesky on 35m !

Come work with Kosali Simon & me @nber.org! We're hiring a Research Scientist to support exciting new work on Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Medicare. If you have a quant PhD, experience with claims data, and knowledge of R, it could be a great match! More info: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Derek Hoodin of @abtglobal.bsky.social, James Marton of @gsueconomics.bsky.social, and @benukert.bsky.social of @tamu.bsky.social examine if those with chronic health conditions benefit from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion. #ACA #Medicaid #HealthInsurance #ChronicHealth

I've added 43 new tips to my book, bringing the total to 140. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the accompanying .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati....

We've just opened registration to 6 replication games: i4replication.org/games.html Montreal (May 28-all) San Francisco (June 19-econ) Madrid (June 25-all) Bordeaux (August 24-econ) Paris (October 3-all) Lyon (October 9-all) 🧵 with more details.

That would be a shame. AHRQ is doing fantastic work.

We're hiring! Apply to join my group as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Health Economics : apply.interfolio.com/164876

It’s amazing how authors seem to immediately jump ship on papers they coauthored when flagged…

Replication materials are important

“How to Lose Your Seat in 2026 Without Actually Trying”

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

While the change in NIH indirect costs seems large, the average rate seems to be close to 26 percent - 9B of 35B distributed by then NIH. So there are definitely some schools who must be close to the 15%. What rate would folks argue is appropriate in social sciences?

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The tariffs are mad; but what’s equally mad is that they somehow come as a surprise, when Trump has campaigned non-stop on this and controls all branches of government Precious time has been lost, but it’s not too late for countries to mount an effective response 1/x

Good tarter pack for health pre on and policy

Help me get the word out, folks: Health Economics (the journal, not the field) is now live on BlueSky. Please follow the journal's account if you're so inclined - and also repost the announcement (for the same reason). Thanks!

It was a pleasure to write this piece for Health Affairs on risk adjustment in Medicare. Risk adjustment modifies payments to health plans or ACOs based on patient/beneficiary characteristics. Here's a very brief summary of my thoughts🧵 www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy Christmas!

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R! stata2r.github.io

Now that I know how great tariffs are, I think we need a constitutional amendment to allow them inside the United States. Like, why should Missouri trade with Ohio without high tariffs?

Interested to learn kore about hospital prices and surprise billing? Join our session at #2024APPAM on Saturday in the early afternoon.

The starter pack of starter packs.

Anyone up for a morning run on Saturday at #2024APPAM?

We’re here! Follow us for organizational updates and recommendations.

Are any of the health policy and health econ journals on the platform? What about organizations in the field, such as ASHEcon? Starter packs desperately needed!

Another great starter to find the people you may be looking for.

Good starter

Allow me to reintroduce myself. I'm a political scientist, Ohio University health policy professor, medical educator, editor of World Medical & Health Policy, and host a podcast about health and public health in Ohio. I care a lot about the state of the world. I'm looking forward to being here.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,156,683!

For those new to Blue Sky, here is a list of health economists to follow. bsky.app/starter-pack...

#EconSky 📉📈 News of my, um, demise have been somewhat exaggerated. I *finally* have a new blog post on #EconometricSausage It is called "Black Magic" dlm-econometrics.blogspot.com/2024/06/blac... Thanks for reading and circulating! If people still read it, I will try to keep it up.

Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...

We're having our annual Bozeman Applied Micro Conference this summer! Dates are selected: June 12-13. Website up, and submissions will be open soon! www.montana.edu/econ/summerc...