45th annual Terry Fox Run brings 10,000 people to the Confederation Bridge #PEI #Canada #TerryFoxRun Donations for the run are still being counted and accepted, but the most recent tally shows more than $800,000 has been raised by the event for cancer research. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

Sharing some encouraging news re: CDC PRAMS. The CDC has indicated they will weight and clean the 2024 PRAMS data. Also, the PRAMS data collection system (PIDS) is up and running again and some sites have begun 2025 PRAMS data collection. Hopefully restoration of the ARF portal is coming soon too.

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1/ This week, we (‪@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social) talk with Jeremy Weber where he shares insights from his new book, “Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right, or at Least Respectively Wrong.”

Classic Canadian snacks! Craving a butter tart!

📢 Excited to share that our papers on marijuana legalization and consumption are now published! Huge thanks to my coauthors @jcmecon.bsky.social‬ @yangliang.bsky.social Joe Sabia & Dhaval Dave 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@nber.org WP with the ⭐great ⭐@econtess.bsky.social, Joe Sabia, Erik Nesson, & Chad Cotti 👇 There are concerns that vaping - through consumption of nicotine - contributes to the mental health crisis We find no evidence that ENDS taxes & other ENDS regulations improve mental health

The 5th Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics will take place at @uniofgalway.bsky.social in Galway, Ireland, March 18-20, 2026. For info and to register, visit: blogs.cornell.edu/ireland-mast... Cc: #Econsky @ashecon.bsky.social @healtheconall.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper in Labour Economics! We study the impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the healthcare workforce. Grateful to my wonderful coauthors — check it out below 👇

New published paper on Covid-19 vaccine mandates!

Excited to share our Labour Economics paper! @johnsearle.bsky.social @aboukr.bsky.social @sungbinpark.bsky.social We study the extent to which state mandates requiring employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination impacted U.S. healthcare sector employment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fair description! 🤣🤣🤣

Congratulations @riacton.bsky.social 👏🎉⭐!

Congratulations @johnmullahy.bsky.social & @edwardnorton.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉!!! Very well deserved!

❤️❤️❤️Prime Minster Carney❤️❤️❤️

Too true🤣🤣🤣!

I’m considering putting together a panel for APPAM on either mental health policy or policies affecting access to health care. Please email me if you have an abstract you’d be interested in contributing.

1 week left to secure Early Bird registration rates for the 2025 ASHEcon Conference! Register and see the online program, participant guidelines, registration rates, and book your hotel here 👉 www.ashecon.org/2025-nashvil...

A timeline cleanser for everyone. This is BobDylan, who always looks at me with his “Whatcha doin’?” face.

Absolutely honored to win this year's James F. Burgess Methods Article-of-the-Year Award, along with @betsyqcliff.bsky.social @juliaedd.bsky.social and @markmeiselbach.bsky.social for our HSR article on deductible imputation in administrative claims datasets! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@markmeiselbach.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in "The Conversation" discussing our JRI paper on the effect of the Peak Health Alliance on health care premiums. theconversation.com/lowering-the...

If you have a paper on family and health outcomes for #2025APPAM connect with me or @omfleming.bsky.social to organize a session.

Now in Early View from @jpam-dc.bsky.social: On the Margin: Who Receives a Juvenile Referral in School and What Effect Does It Have? Read more: ow.ly/shYr50VqEEL

Have you read my research on pollen and behaviors? You should also take care of your mental health, avoid driving, and avoid calling emergency services (they’ll be swamped).

We’ll be updating this chapter annually, so please continue to share COVID papers as they come out! All disciplines welcome; I’m really proud of the broad set of scholars we cite in the chapter.

Emily Cook & I discuss the financial (and non-financial) challenges COVID created for colleges in our new @aefpweb.bsky.social Live Handbook chapter. Take a look! livehandbook.org/higher-educa...

Prospective students are invited to join the Schar School for our Master's and Certificate Virtual Open House! Explore our programs, meet our faculty and admissions team, and discover what sets the Schar School apart. Register now at the link below! schar.gmu.edu/upcoming-ope...

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week! youtube.com/shorts/QkYmP...

Good news alert! The 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year files is now available on IPUMS USA. Join us in our data joy 🎉 usa.ipums.org

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1/ In our latest episode of #TheHiddenCurriculum, we had a great discussion with Nathaniel Hendren about policy evaluation, academic publishing, and navigating the economics field. #TheHiddenCurriculum. #EconomicsResearch #PolicyEvaluation #AcademicPublishing

This was a really fun interview about the role of ridesharing in rual healthcare access! Also an honor to cite a new paper by @jcmecon.bsky.social @conornomics.bsky.social @kteltser.bsky.social (nber.org/papers/w33077). youtu.be/MrQgqjX1BeE

More & more people seem to be getting on here (yay!), so here’s a reminder that I have 2 starter packs of awesome women & nonbinary economists. Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

We study the effect of e-cigarette taxes on LGBQ teens LGBQ teens vape at much higher rates than other teens, 30% higher

Happy Boxing Day!!!

⭐Great looking CHEPS seminar series for Spring 2025!⭐

"3 to 4, max" 🙃! ❤️Missing Nova Scotia during the holidays!❤️

My book came out one year ago. It was the most fun I’ve had writing professionally. Thank you so much to everyone that has read it or used it. Knowing that people are enjoying it makes me so incredibly happy. Dad jokes are a pedagogical tool. www.amazon.com/Economics-He...

I would very much like to be Lucas😎

Mark your calendars: The 7th annual WALES (Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium) will be on February 14 2025! Come celebrate your love of econ with us. And thanks John Earle and GMU for organizing this year. Info on submission and registration deadlines below.

Grateful to the NBER for sharing our work! Just 19 days ago, we thought posting a thread and sharing only on X made sense... but Bluesky's growth over just the past three weeks has been amazing! (Note: paper is now forthcoming at JHealthEcon!) @jcmecon.bsky.social @kteltser.bsky.social

😍Missing Philadelphia! 😍

Post a photo you took to bring some zen to the timeline.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

Okay, the first Women in Econ starter pack was such a success that we quickly hit the BlueSky starter pack limit (150 accounts). But, I've got a version 2.0 with even more awesome economists you should follow! go.bsky.app/J6nhkk7

🙏Thanks @riacton.bsky.social‬ for the super starter pack!🙏

Thanks to everyone who has suggested themselves or others for the health econ starter pack. Impossible to keep up with the tide of insight and energy migrating to BlueSky on my own!