What happened to the U.S. healthcare workforce during the pandemic? JAMA: using a national labor force census database, we assessed employment recovery since the initial drop in employment in early 2020 across US healthcare subsectors through the end of 2022

Newly uncovered threats to causal interpretation of Difference in Difference estimates, and the solutions the literature has proposed with step-by-step examples, code, and a checklist, from Freedman, Alex Hollingsworth, Kosali Simon, Coady Wing, and Yozwiak nber.org/papers/w31842

Glad to have had the chance to provide testimony this week at Indiana’s Medicaid Oversight Committee meeting. News coverage of the event below, including quote from Professor David Craig. wfyi.org/news/articles/…

Our study of the slowdown in ADHD diagnosis for children during the pandemic ( from school closings and other factors) is out in JHR. It’s a special issue with lots of other good work. Don’t miss it!

#TheHiddenCurriculum is back! Sebastian Tello-Trillo and I got just a bit behind on editing. But better late than never :) Next episode with Andrew Friedson comes out tomorrow. Tune in for a chance to win his new textbook! New season trailer: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hidde…

Just arrived in San Antonio for #ASSA2024! Health economists, come and join the CSWEP session on Health and Health Care Friday at 2:30 PM, in which I will present our work on dynamics in employment and health around gender transitions 📈📉

Come check out this 12:30 health economics session at #ASSA2024 if you are here (or follow the link for abstracts). New research on medical debt, healthcare costs and wages, Medicaid prescription drug markets, and ambulatory surgical centers. aeaweb.org/conference/202…

Genes and ADRD, learning-by-doing in home health, family caregiving and labor supply: Great new research on being presented at the economics of aging and long-term care session #ASSA2024 10:15am aeaweb.org/conference/202…

Congratulations to Maya Rossin-Slater for the 2023 Elaine Bennett Research prize #ASSA2024 !!

Maya Rossin-Slater, 2023 Elaine Bennett Research Prize winner’s presentation with an introduction by nominators and supporters is now posted at aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm… Maya Rossin-Slater , StanfordHealthPolicy

Penning Valentine letters? Consider writing comments to CMS on new data access policy. Further protecting data is vital, so is democratizing access to research resources. Researchers will offer many alternative ways to do both. x.com/ddiamond/statu… x.com/mattafiedler/s…

We are excited to host the 14th annual Midwest Health Economics Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, Sept 26-27. Submit to go.iu.edu/6W2C by May 1. Tell all your friends in the midwest (both geographically and in spirit)! Anthony LoSasso

We are still accepting submissions for MHEC in Bloomington in September. We will continue to accept submissions through Monday, May 6th and will notify accepted authors by June 1st at the latest.

Tune in today and tomorrow for fascinating research on Aging! NBER Aging workshop, youtube.com/nbervideos starting 9:10am nber.org/conferences/si…. David Cutler Jonathan Skinner NBER