Now onto finishing my dissertation and prepping for the move!

I’m also indebted to my friends who were on this challenging market for providing a space where we could vent, reassure each other, and talk about literally anything else

I am grateful beyond words to my advisor @davidslusky.bsky.social and the rest of my committee @mlheggeness.bsky.social, Donna Ginther, Bapu Jena, and Aimee Wilson

As well as countless other mentors who provided guidance, support, and a kind ear

I’m so excited to share that in the fall I’ll be joining American University as an Assistant Professor in the Economics and Health Studies departments!

Attending #SEA2025? Come see me present my #JMP on Monday at 12pm!

I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! I work on questions about women’s health, family, & labor.

In my #JMP I study how changes in abortion access affect infant and maternal health, finding that reductions in access harm health at birth.

Read the full manuscript here: lillyspringer.com

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

“Birth Center and Maternal and Infant Health” by Helena Roy, @ambarlaforgia.bsky.social, @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social, Helen Kissel, and Petra Persson looks at the growth of births centers and health outcomes in the US

“The Consequences of Federal Abortion Funding Bans” from @mayrapinedat.bsky.social, @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social, and Nikita Dhingra looks at a really understudied form of abortion restrictions

“Medicare’s Coverage Gaps Reduce Women’s Contraceptive Use Among Women with Disabilities” from @meghanbellerose.bsky.social and coauthors is a really timely look at what effects contraceptive take up & access

“Pregnancy at 35 and Beyond: Is It Time to Redefine the Geriatric Pregnancy Age” from Devoja Ganguli asks a really fascinating question about the long established idea of when a geriatric pregnancy is.

“The Price of Parenthood: Childcare Costs and Fertility”, which is @abigaildow.bsky.social’s excellent JMP is a really interesting look at the link between childcare and birthrates

Next is “Power to the Platform: Online Dating and Reproductive Health” by @cpdurrance.bsky.social, @mguldi.bsky.social, & @causalinf.bsky.social which looks at the introduction of Craigslist personal ads on fertility

🧵 of my favorite new papers that I saw at #ASHEcon2025

First up is “Stigmas and Social Safety Net Participation” from @kpukelis.bsky.social and Michael Holcomb which finds interesting stigma difference along political lines

Really excited for this year’s #ASHEcon2025

I’m presenting my JMP on Tuesday afternoon and am discussing 3 really interesting papers throughout the conference.

Come say hi!

Check out my work on the spillovers effects NP scope of practice expansions with @omfleming.bsky.social

The Care Board The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

🚨For the past two years, we have worked feverously to create a solid set of starter statistics on the economics of care. I couldn’t be prouder of what our small but mighty team has created for y’all. Check it out below, download data, and follow us @thecareboard.bsky.social! 🚨

Had a wonderful time at the Atlanta PPCW Workshop this week!

Special shout out to my fellow grad student presenters who are all doing such interesting work!

Thank you to @lindsbullinger.bsky.social and @danieldench1.bsky.social for a great workshop

Wonder what’s been happening after Dobbs?

Check out my new @econofact.bsky.social memo with @davidslusky.bsky.social

Picture of title, authors, and abstract of new paper on the labor supply of parents of infants. Mothers increase labor supply. Fathers take leave from work. Mothers in telework-compatible jobs take less leave.

What do parents do in an adaptive labor market when infant care goes away? Perhaps most interesting is what FATHERS do. 👀👀👀 Check out our newest paper below. 👇👇👇

Last skills session week with the KU Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship is in the books!

Love this group of incredible and supportive future PhDs

Are People Fleeing States With Abortion Bans?

Yes, according to our analysis of change-of-address data from the USPS. For more details, see our NBER WP or abstract below:
www.nber.org/papers/w33328

#EconSky

Joint work w/: @danieldench1.bsky.social + Kelly Lifchez + @econling.bsky.social

Spending my snowed in days working on my syllabus and would love any paper recs!

#EconSky

Getting ready to update the syllabus for my undergrad health economics course for the spring

What are the papers that make you excited to be a health economist/do health econ research?

Looking for any/all topic areas!

Celebrating passing my comps, but really doing research for my next paper on the economics of Broadway

Massive thank you to my wonderfully supportive and helpful committee!

Are you working on a paper related to healthcare provider scope of practice laws?

@omfleming.bsky.social and I are looking for another paper for the session we are organizing for #ASHEcon2025

#APPAM2024 ☑️
#SEA2024 ☑️
Contentedly exhausted ☑️

Truly a wonderful marathon of conferences full of great papers, presentations, and people!

Now onto Thanksgiving and final prepping for my comps

#APPAM2024 ➡️ #SEA2024

I’m presenting in two health sessions on Sunday

Come check them out!

Loved this quantitative and qualitative examination of reasons postpartum women report for not using contraceptives directly after birth from Amanda Spishak-Thomas