The 13th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior has come to an end. It was two days of rich intellectual stimulation in a stunning location. Looking forward to the 14th episode next year! Stay tuned for an announcement.

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel presents research at #ERB2024 showing PKK armed conflict in Turkey was associated with diminished educational attainment across two generations.

Thanks to 𝔼𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕝 𝕋𝕖𝕜𝕚𝕟 School of Public Affairs for an amazing 13th annual Econ of Risky Behavior Workshop in Rijeka, Croatia. Jenny Williams is right: this is the “happy place” for economists studying crime, violence, & risky health behavior! #ERB2024

Important new work at #ERB2024 workshop by CarlyWill Sloan (joint w/ Matthew B. Ross & Chandon Adger) finds Dallas police recruits conditionally randomly assigned to more aggressive field training officers are more likely to use force w/in 2yrs.

A farewell CHEPS dinner for our Postdoctoral Fellow Caterina Muratori, who will join NuriaRodriguezPlanas at Universitat de Barcelona IEB this September! We will miss you Caterina and look forward to all of your many future successes!!!

Changing of the guard. As we wish Caterina Muratori well, we welcome new CHEPS-ECON Postdoctoral Fellow Tessie Krishna to San Diego State University! She will make great contributions to our econ of risky behavior research portfolio!

Time to share the good news officially! I am honored to join San Diego State University as the new CHEPS-ECON Postdoctoral Fellow. I look forward to learning from the incredibly talented people who work here and contributing to the research on the economics of risky behaviors and health.

Thanks to Kyu Matsuzawa for leading our 2024 CHEPS Stata/R Boot Camp! Thanks to San Diego State University CAL for hosting us. We have an impressive new crew of predocs & are proud to expand the Center’s multigenerational research team!

I am super excited to have Analisa Packham join the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management team! Welcome aboard, Analisa! 🌟

Thanks to the UW–Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center for supporting our first joint CHEPS-ECON Social Insurance Research Workshop! Lots of learning about Social Security Administration (SSA)-related research on retirement and disability policy.

New open-access JHE paper w/ wonderful Y. Wang & M. Karlsson. "Modeling tails of health expenditure distributions" doi.org/10.1016/j.jhea… We built on seminal work by John Mullahy Edward Norton Andrew Jones & others; propose a three-part model to model extreme tails.

Looking forward to it!

New JHE paper by Charles Courtemanche, PhD Yang Liang Catherine Maclean (@jcmecon.bsky.social) Caterina Muratori & Joe Sabia finds e-cigarette licensure laws fail to reduce youth nicotine vaping. Thanks to an amazing team! Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

CHEPS and SDSU ECON welcome Felipe Lozano-Rojas to present his joint work with David Bradford on the effect of the Colombian drug war on US opioid mortality. shorturl.at/IInT7 Join us on Thurs 8/29 at 3:30PM PT in AL 660 or via zoom (sdsu.zoom.us/j/88923406625)

Well it's labor day, which mean's NFL pre season is about to end and the regular season is about to start. Excited time. Also a good time to recognize the related research of two great students on the market this year from University of Oregon. Emily Arnesen and Kyu Matsuzawa.

CHEPS & SDSU ECON welcome Michele Belot to present her paper, "Gender Diversity and Diversity of Ideas" (joint work w/ Madina Kurmangaliyeva & Johanna Reuter) Paper: iza.org/publications/d… Join us on Thurs 9/19 at 3:30PM PT in AL 660 or via zoom: sdsu.zoom.us/j/88923406625