Do infant safe havens—which offer the ability to surrender an infant to a hospital, fire station, or police station—spare infants from tragic deaths? 1/

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.

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

Congratulations to all of the #BPEA authors, discussants, and participants who have made the Brookings Econ Spring 2024 conference a success. The program, papers, and livestream can be found here: brookings.edu/events/bpea-sp…

Would love help amplifying this call: NBER with support from the The National Institute on Aging (NIA), is launching a mentoring program for PhD students who are curious about topics of health & aging or students who are already interested and want to dive deeper and develop their ideas.

In case you were having 2nd thoughts about that colonoscopy your doc ordered: Instrumental variables methods reconcile intention-to-screen effects across pragmatic cancer screening trials | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

ADHD diagnoses fell by 8.6% for boys and 11.0% for girls in the US due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Seth Freedman, Kelli Marquardt, Dario Salcedo, Kosali Simon, & Coady Wing find.
#jhrchildmentalhealth #childmentalhealth #openaccess doi.org/10.3368/jhr.12…

Curious about what's next in Economics, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Complex Information? Read what a group of econometricians assembled this year at Indiana University in honor of Professor Joon Park said. (Recommended reading list at the end).

It’s job market season! I’m Austin Knies, an Economics Ph.D. Candidate at IU Bloomington on the 2023-24 job market. My work is in applied microeconomics at the intersection of health economics and information frictions. A quick 🧵 about me:

And a similar senior or advanced junior level position in environment/climate and health--in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs ; we have large groups of environmental researchers and health researchers, and excited there's hiring at the intersection

We're hiring at O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in aging and health! This is a senior or advanced junior level position, and we're looking for great candidates from multiple disciplines. Come join our group including Kosali Simon, Coady Wing, Cydney McGuire , and Alberto Ortega. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20224

What an interesting couple of days at the Econometrics Conference in Honor of Joon Y. Park. Thanks to the IU econ department for hosting.

Here are some O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs PhD students hanging out with Jeffrey Wooldridge.

Join O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs on Friday, September 29th, as they welcome Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago Professor Lars Hansen for a talk on his most recent paper about environmental change and policy: bit.ly/454ybLy

🙏Anthony LoSasso Zarek Brot-Goldberg Kelli Marquardt Amanda Starc Nicholas Tilipman for #MHECXIII Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University
So many Midwestern health economists Caitlin Carroll David Molitor Coady Wing Zach Levin Vicky Barone yulya truskinovsky Maggie Shi Josh Gottlieb (also @GottliebEcon.you.know.where) Hannah Neprash Kosali Simon Coleman Drake Yiqun Chen!

We're one week away from our PhD in Public Affairs application opening for Fall 2024 applicants!

Please circulate for those looking to start their doctoral journey at The O'Neill School! #LeadForTheGreaterGood

Fun times in Park City at the WHY Causal Inference. #stata #WHY

New in @ashecon Newsletter! Had the privilege of chatting w/Marianne Bitler🏳️‍🌈 David Bradford Elaine L. Hill Jing Li 李婧 Catherine Maclean (@jcmecon.bsky.social) Sarah Miller David Molitor
Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇦 Maya Rossin-Slater Laura Wherry about writing and getting grants early in your career. Thank you for your invaluable insights!