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HKS's @marcellaalsan.bsky.social and the Health Inequality Lab recently awarded more than $130,000 to Ph.D. students across Harvard to support their dissertations related to social equity or health equity: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Dean Karlan, Chief Economist at USAID, has resigned www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Rethinking Merger Analysis by Louis Kaplow" by Carl Shapiro. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Lost a giant in mental health research - such an honor to work with Dr. Snowden at NASEM publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/s...

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Thank you @JPAL_NA for featuring our work! Excited that the study was recently accepted in @JHealthEcon (link in next tweet). A short 🧵: x.com/JPAL_NA/stat...

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Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank by Justene Hill Edwards" by Eric Chyn. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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HKS's @marcellaalsan.bsky.social joined the History Channel's HISTORY This Week podcast to discuss the American Medical Association's historical resistance to national health care: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Recently accepted by #QJE, “’Something Works’ in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program,” by Alsan, Barnett, Hull, and Yang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

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Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor by Christian Bessy" by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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In a conversation with the Harvard Gazette, HKS's @marcellaalsan.bsky.social and HLS's Crystal Yang discuss how health care accreditation in jails can contribute to improved health care delivery and standards, a decrease in deaths, and millions in cost savings: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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In today's blog, @berkozler12.bsky.social summarizes new work by @marcellaalsan.bsky.social & co-authors on how mean reversion may lower average impacts in RCTs - lots of people being treated may be in a temporary dip that will improve on its own blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Program eligibility can trigger an Ashenfelter Dip, with outcomes reverting to the mean even in the absence of an intervention. Predicting "Always Improvers" may enhance targeting, from Marcella Alsan, @cawley_john, Joseph J. Doyle Jr., and @nickskelley_ https://www.nber.org/papers/w33369

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Janet Currie features work by @egolberstein.bsky.social "and his coauthors" (= @irinazay.bsky.social Mark Sander & me) on promising interventions in her @assameeting.bsky.social Presidential Address on child mental health crisis. Webcast here: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...

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Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance by Karthik Muralidharan" by Jishnu Das. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Grateful to LA Times @keribla.bsky.social and Connor Sheets for the terrific coverage www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357

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Great historical perspective on the lack of a national health system in the US and the role played by lobbies from @marcellaalsan.bsky.social and coauthors cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Happy ERP day! The 2025 Economic Report of the President is out now! Chapters cover a wide range of topics incl. remote work and K-12 ed - be sure to check it out. I'm presenting the health policy chapter at Brookings next Wed, links below #econsky #healthpolicy www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

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Apply for the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute's Visiting Scholar Program--a great opportunity (!) to interact with outstanding scholars who care about Inequality. Deadline January 17, 2025. www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/vi...

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You can still submit for the NBER's Children & Families spring meetings on April 3-4. Submit by Jan. 31 here: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

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Are you an academic who is looking for an opportunity to try working outside of a university setting? Do you want to apply your expertise to improving policy? Apply for an OES fellowship! Everyone I know who’s done one loved it. oes.gsa.gov/opps/

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Thanks to amazing work by @harvard.edu PhD students tinyurl.com/Katherine-Ia... and tinyurl.com/graeme-peter... and for the invite to write for the OxREP issue on Race, Caste and Economic Policy edited by Sandy Darity and Isabel Ruiz. Full issue here academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/...

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Job market students, consider doing an awesome postdoc with us at Dartmouth! Position could be filled by development, trade, applied. Because we don't have a PhD program, you can get a lot of time with faculty here. Also it's in New Hampshire ⛷️🚵‍♂️🏔️🛶 Link below, deadline is in 2 weeks, please share!

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I’m excited to share a funded year-long PhD student fellowship, combining non-partisan economic policy research & public service at: - Congressional Budget Office - Congressional Research Service - Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Deadline is Thursday 30 January 2025

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By far the high point of my career—thank you to everyone who made this happen!❤️

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Dear friends and followers, for those of you who are interested, here is the recording of the Nobel banquet speech: shapingwork.mit.edu/news/daron-a...

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If you're a PhD student interested in causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, please email me if you haven't already. (And if you did email me & I didn't respond, please reply to bump your email to the top of my inbox!) I want to make sure y'all are on our radar for future BRIDGE invites.

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I'm looking for a third paper for a Medicaid managed care-focused panel for ASHE. DM me if interested! Please RT, I'm new to the blue skies...

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Here's the punchline -- a "checklist" for researchers hoping to either apply our exogenous-shocks approach or the exogenous-shares approach studied by @paulgp.com and coauthors We pair this with discussion of several real-world papers and how they may or may not fit into the two frameworks

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We’re hiring a predoctoral fellow for our Stanford Conflict and Polarization lab! We do field experiments, lab experiments and also love to go hunting in the archives for novel data to help shed new light on solving these important problems. Please apply if interested & share with any who might be!

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Experiencing #poverty during childhood can affect not only children’s health and welfare but also future economic opportunities for them and future generations. Learn about the causes and ways to reduce #IntergenerationalPoverty from our recent report: https://buff.ly/3ZsuheK

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I'm very excited to join the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social in January. And we're hiring pre-doc fellows in development economics! Great 1–2 year PhD preparation. Please share widely! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

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Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

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A recent paper by Eoin McGuirk and @nathannunn.bsky.social highlights how agricultural development projects can backfire in traditionally pastoral areas of Africa, fueling conflict instead of fostering development. #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w33191

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Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economics of Inequality and the Environment" by Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, and Lutz Sager. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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+1 and has been shown to save veteran lives www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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