.Tara E W & I are excited to announce a new Virtual Economics of Poverty and Policy Seminar (VEPPS)

Spring 2024 speakers include Marianne Bitler🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Chloe N. East (she/her) Sheridan Fuller professional age forecaster & Hilary Hoynes

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🚨Postdoctoral Position Available🚨
Join Tatyana Deryugina 🇺🇦 and me on health and environmental economics research among a vibrant group of faculty and postdocs Gies Business.

Apply by Jan 15, 2024, for full consideration.

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Happy New Year from all of us at Opportunity for
Health!

Check out our website for our impact through 2023: opportunityforhealth.org/topics/impact/

We look forward to working with you all towards building communities with greater opportunity and good health in 2024!

Atheendar Venkataramani PLOS Medicine 3/ Both papers generally consistent with a model of human capital investment alterations in response to economic opportunity shocks—see work of Opportunity for Health Lab more generally

Via Akhtari, Natalie Bau & Jean-William Laliberté, in AEJ Applied: affirmative action ban reversals in TX MS LA increased URM top students’ time spent on homework, pre-college grades & math SAT scores, & applications to selective unis

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

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1/ In this JAMA Health Forum paper, we address a critical gap in evidence related to physicians with disabilities.

Using a large national sample of 90,000 physicians we find that physicians with disabilities earn *21% lesser* than those without disability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

We were thrilled to host Atheendar Venkataramani (@OppforHealthLab, Penn LDI) this morning for a stimulating discussion on how opportunity can affect health behaviors and how public policy can meaningfully improve population health by targeting opportunity.

Thank you Dr. Venkataramani!

On Monday 12/4 @ Noon! Join us for the PARC Aging Chat:
'Spatial and SES Inequalities in Health and Mortality: An Ever-Widening Future?'
with Jennifer Karas Montez from Syracuse University and Irma T Elo from Sociology at Penn
HYBRID EVENT | 403 McNeil or ZOOM INFO: bit.ly/47AWqD0

69% of Kentucky residents surveyed supported work requirements for Medicaid but only 43% agreed that people with unmet hours should lose Medicaid benefits. Kristen Underhill ⁦Atheendar Venkataramani⁩ ⁦Accelerate Health Equity⁩ ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩ ⁦Opportunity for Health Lab⁩ ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

State incarceration policies can have distinct, racialized impacts on birth outcomes, reflecting both material and affective mechanisms, from Courtney Boen, Elizabeth Bair, Hedy (Hedwig) Lee, and Atheendar Venkataramani nber.org/papers/w31888

1/ Policy choices profoundly affect our #health .

But how?

Our new NBER shows that policies can impact health both through changing material circumstances (e.g., access to resources, neighborhood conditions) and the affective signals they send:

nber.org/papers/w31888

Working paper! 🚨🚨

'A New Approach to Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Decentralized Policies' with @WilliamHHoytand Tidiane Ly

What are the welfare effects of decentralization? How can federal govn'ts prioritize grants for local policies to internalize spillovers?

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OfH Director Atheendar Venkataramani joins Dr. JR Woodward on the latest podcast episode of “Our Social Landscape” to discuss the intersection of health, social class, and hope, as well as suggestions for how to improve the health of all Americans! Full episode 👇🏽

oursociallandscape.com/post/atheen-ve…

Awesome to see the CBO acknowledge the long-term impact of policy on both human capital development and government savings. This aligns with our findings at Policy Impacts