🔬 Research by Marcus Dillender suggests that disease-specific federal funding given to local governments can be a cost-effective, life-saving response to public health crises. Learn more in this week's Research Corner newsletter by @Soleil_Shah! tradeoffs.org/subscribe/

Economists working on mental health, apply to this workshop!

I'm very happy to announce that our (alex cardazzi & Zachary Rodriguez) paper "Information Shocks and Celebrity Exposure: The Effect of Magic Johnson on AIDS Diagnoses and Mortality in the U.S." has been accepted for publication in Health Economics! Link: bit.ly/3VOANKv and🧵

Congratulations to our Susan Houseman, recipient of the Society of Labor Economists Prize for Contributions in Data and Measurement. upjohn.org/about/news-eve…

Such a great place to work!

Special Issue in Labour Economics: "Economics of the Healthcare Workforce" Please share widely and submit! sciencedirect.com/journal/labour… Osea Giuntella Giuseppe Moscelli 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇬🇧🇺🇦 #healtheconomics @ashecon EuHEA

There's still time to submit! The NBER Economics of Mobility Conference will accept submissions until August 11--a full ONE DAY extension (because I tweeted the wrong deadline last time)! It's a GREAT conference--please apply! (Jesse Rothstein) nber.org/conferences/ec…

During my sabbatical, I wrote a manuscript for the intro economic statistics course at UT-Austin. My main goal was to provide a free resource for our majors, but now that a draft is complete I'd like to also share it with other potential instructors. probstats4econ.com

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Medical Evaluations: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors" by Marika Cabral and Marcus Dillender. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Hello world, I’m writing to introduce the Chicago Booth Economics PhD program's Job Market Candidates! Eric Budish and I are the faculty co-directors of the program, so please e-mail us with any questions Here are our outstanding and inspiring students (in alphabetical order):

Applications for the ASHEcon Diversity Scholarship are being accepted. If you are a student or recent PhD from an underrepresented group and would like to attend ASHEcon this year, consider applying! ashecon.org/2024-san-diego…

✨✨ Predoc opportunity to start ASAP or summer 2024 💡Research in health economics and data science with labor and environment intersections Join our vibrant team Econ RA Listings #EconTwitter Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Attention early career health economists! The AcademyHealth Health Econ Interest Group call for abstracts is now open! Submit by March 8 at 5 pm ET. Registration fees are paid for the selected presenters! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Findings suggest wildfire smoke causes a 2.8 percent increase in workplace injuries. Impacts are widespread across workers and occur at pollution levels below regulatory thresholds, from Marika Cabral and Marcus Dillender nber.org/papers/w32232

Call for Abstracts! We are sponsoring two sessions at the 2025 ASSA/AEA Meeting in San Francisco! One session will be focused on LGBTQ+ economics related topics. The other session will be focused on papers in Environmental/Energy Economics. aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm…

Congratulations to 2024 Diversity Scholarship recipient Angela Shoulders, U of SC Economics. Learn more about the Diversity Scholarship here: ashecon.org/2024-san-diego… Sponsored by Dalio Philanthropies, Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine, @CommonwealthFnd and Arnold Ventures

Congratulations to 2024 Diversity Scholarship recipient Chloe Smith, Cornell University Cornell Economics. Learn more about the Diversity Scholarship here: ashecon.org/2024-san-diego… Sponsored by Dalio Philanthropies, Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine, @CommonwealthFnd and Arnold Ventures

The deadline for the NBER Economic Mobility Conference, to be held on September 27, is **JULY 18** (only 8 days away!)--SUBMIT YOUR PAPERS!!! All fields welcome! (Organized by me and Jesse Rothstein)

If the book is like Jason's teaching, it will definitely be a great resource