🚨🚨Very excited to attend the 2025 Young Scholar Workshop by the @armecona.bsky.social on Dec. 5, 10-12pm EST featuring 3 job market candidates: Narek Alexanian @princetonecon.bsky.social, @salpykanimian.bsky.social, and Mate Malashkhia. Log in to hear and support these stellar young economists!
There is growing recognition of regional inequality in poverty calculations. However, incorporating such adjustments in multi-tier segmented programs is difficult: cross-selection + fiscal externalities. My #JMP considers whether or not it makes sense to do so in health insurance programs!
Conditional on utilization?
On this note, if you ever want to use staggered SDID, check the appendix of this paper as we provide step-by-step derivation + intuition.
❗❗❗NEW RESEARCH ALERT ❗❗❗
With @beniwalsukriti.bsky.social and @salpykanimian.bsky.social we examine the impact of states converting from Healthcare.Gov to #StateBasedMarketplaces after 2018 in the #ACA
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
TLDR: No detectable effects
#HealthPolicy
1/7
Yes!
Apply to this amazing mentoring opportunity! I had an excellent mentor (Dan Ferris of WUSTL) this past year who made a big impact on my personal + professional growth.
Check out my testimonial in the link (yes, for some reason APPAM featured yours truly) 😄👇
Please read more widely than your field. As a result of doing this, I have grown tremendously.
#ASHEcon2025 was a whirlwind🌪️—in the best way! Presented my work, discussed a great paper, and shared a poster. Great conversations, fresh insights, and even ran into mentors, colleagues, and coauthors. Congrats to all the organizers @ashecon.bsky.social. Excited for next year #ASHEcon2026!
Send us your de-identified claims (takes a few mins!), repost, & circulate. Thanks for your help in advance!!
**Repost**
🚨 Call for Participants
Rice University’s Baker Institute is studying whether insurers are accurately reporting prices under federal transparency rules.
To participate: Age 18+ & willing.
📄Submit de-identified bills/EOBs dated Jan 1, 2025+ to PriceCheck@rice.edu
“Increasing administrative burdens on Marketplace enrollees will lead to loss of coverage and an increase in uninsurance." David Anderson assistant professor of health services policy and management
New research led by health services policy and management assistant professor David Anderson shows that millions of Marketplace participants face coverage loss due to burdensome reenrollment policies. ow.ly/r7aI50W0MfS #ArnoldSchoolDiscovery @dmaanderson.bsky.social
New RESEARCH with @colemandrake.bsky.social @dludwinski.com Sarah Avina and Dylan Nagy in @jama.com #HealthForum
Examining #ZeroPremium plan turnover leads to less re-enrollment and more active choices to plan switch
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Wait, what’s going on? Are we dying?
Let’s goooo
Here are some ways the world has gotten better.
"Medical debt is also disproportionately a problem for Black & Hispanic people, who, b/c of a history of systemic discrimination, are more likely to be low-income & more likely to live in states that have exacerbated this problem by refusing federal funds to expand public health insurance coverage"
As @lesliemwalker.bsky.social writes for Tradeoffs today, discussing the paper’s findings, that regulation “was poised to help nearly 1 million more duals gain this extra medication assistance, but the latest Republican proposal delays that rule until 2035.”
Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it.
Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)
Like from the post earlier today. Child poverty dropped 25% over the last 30 years. True. But also we could, right now, cut child poverty 60% by spending a miniscule portion of our 7 trillion dollar federal budget but we don't. Needless suffering.
Some discourse about a study on basic cost of living today. I'll go back to what i said last month.
Working and middle class families simultaneously are a lot wealthier than they were 75 years ago and have access to less of the wealth generated. So the gap between how we could live and how we do live has grown.
We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday.
cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...
By a wonderful friend/coauthor @tylerqwelch.bsky.social: Changes to #socialsecurity would cost average #Wisconsin residents a wrapping $7,000 a year. Similar estimates from #NewHampshire, #Vermont, #Maine, & #Pennsylvania.
Young people (ages 18-24) are more likely to be uninsured than any other group, despite many of them being eligible for #Medicaid or premium #tax credits.
New #research examines the demographic, eligibility, & geographic characteristics of uninsured young adults to support outreach & enrollment.
Reminder that this seminar on FREE data for health economics research is this afternoon!
Hi all! I am organizing a session at the #SEA on market shocks and financial strategies of hospitals… & looking for a paper or 2!
Hi all! I am organizing a panel session on leadership compensation and financial adaptation in the evolving hospital landscape at @appam.bsky.social and looking for another paper or 2! #2025APPAM
