With federal partners, we have produced novel statistics on justice-involved individuals’ outcomes to more fully characterize their life trajectories. Employment & earnings. Health insurance & mortality. Housing & public assistance. Future charges/returns to prison. [3/10]

The Data Stories feature uses case studies to guides users on how to fully leverage the novel opportunities on the #JusticeOutcomesExplorer . Check out how the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion policies changed health insurance coverage among those leaving prison. [5/10]

Do not sleep on this—this is going to be huge!

🚨 New paper alert! “Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?” with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet that’s forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights. TLDR: Yes…there has been way too little enforcement. 🧵

Thrilled to share that I’m joining Questrom School of Business, Boston University as an Assistant Professor of Marketing in Fall 2025, after a Postdoc at MIT Sloan School of Management with MIT IDE/MIT FutureTech

A huge thank you to my committee—Ying Fan, Francine Lafontaine, Susan Athey, Zach Brown—and so many others… #EconTwitter

This project is really heating up! Come join the team!

Congratulations Andreas Hagemann for getting voted up for tenure by the college’s executive committee! I’m so proud of you. You’re the best!!

Just got the email from CMSGov that they are planning to discontinue physical access to the Medicare/Medicaid research files and force everyone to use the (incredibly expensive) VRDC. In the transition, they'll charge physical data users $10K/year to renew DUAs. This is bad.

Congrats to Brown University on this incredible hire! Can’t wait to see all the amazing things Roz accomplishes during this new chapter. 🎉

New paper in JAMA Health Forum with David Meyers, Erin Fuse Brown, Travis Williams, Andrew Ryan.

In this paper, we examine the relationship between the MA quartile adjustment system and plan behavior and enrollment.

A 🧵:

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So many young stars changing the world in economics and occasionally I try to draw attention to one of them in my area. Today my young star alert is Eva Vivalt!

Her work, especially on the science of using science, is pathbreaking. Can't wait to watch her continue to change…

⁦Maya Rossin-Slater⁩ is accepting the Elaine Bennett Research Award with her little ones. Such a sweet picture. Congratulations ⁦Maya Rossin-Slater⁩! Very well deserved.

What are the effects of banning individuals from the social safety net? Do the bans change benefit receipt? Are there spillover effects onto the rest of the household? Check out our new CJARS working paper (with James Reeves, Kevin Schnepel, and C. Walker). Summary🧵1/N

New and important study of an intensive 'food-as-medicine' program

Words to live by: 'Programs targeted to individuals ... require a control group to demonstrate effectiveness to account for improvements that occur without the intervention'

NYC area health economists, please mark May 3 for Health Economics Day NYU Stern and if you'd like to present, submit your paper here by 3/15/24: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… cc: Amy Bond Sunita Desai Michael Dickstein Adam Sacarny