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New PennPSC study on public perceptions of COVID-19 during week of March 10-16, when people began to realize the risk. National data on perceived risk of infection or dying, social distancing, and likelihood of running out of money in next 3 months. ldi.upenn.edu/healthpolicyse…

Check out the newest Penn LDI & Population Aging Research Center at Penn brief! This research (published in the Journal of Health Economics) examines the effects of #population #health screenings on non-communicable diseases in LMCI's.

Happy to welcome Juhee Bae (Arizona State) Alberto Ciancio (Upenn) Alberto Ciancio Santiago Montoya-Blandon (Emory) Santiago Montoya-Blandón Anthoulla Phella (Surrey) that will join UofG ASBS uofgasbs.bsky.social next year Dimitris Korobilis @ASBSresearch

New findings from MLSFH underscore the importance of population health screenings for NCDs in SSA.

📣New paper alert "Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for shaping public health and economic responses to the pandemic" by Population Aging Research Center at Penn researchers Iliana Kohler Hans-Peter Kohler & co-authors Alberto Ciancio et al @NIA_BSR Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) NICHD News

Congrats to Cecilia Balocchi, former CCA Allieva, on winning the 2021 Savage Award. The award is bestowed each year by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis to two outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and statistics. bit.ly/3P3ac8d #CCA

“Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor,” by Alberto Ciancio et al., is one of the first studies to document “a positive effect of in utero adversity on later-life cardiovascular health…consistent w/ epigenetic causes of disease.” UofG ASBS uofgasbs.bsky.social PennPSC ow.ly/ii4S50Q5vHt

Pending approval, we're hiring several Lecturers in Applied Economics to continue our expansion University of Glasgow UofG ASBS uofgasbs.bsky.social 🌟 Competitive salary 💡 Generous Research Endowment 🏙️ Thriving City #EconTwitter #econjobmarket #EJM_Positions_Junior econjobmarket.org/positions/10306

Does a better understanding of mortality risks translate into less risky sex? Quite possibly! At least in SSA countries where pessimism about survival is common. See new MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health in the Economic Journal doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Great work Alberto Ciancio and team Population Aging Research Center at Penn

Does providing information on mortality risks shape health investments and subjective health expectations? That’s what we find in Malawi. Now in print at EJ academic.oup.com/ej/issue Alberto Ciancio ,Hans-Peter Kohler, Iliana Kohler, ISER , UTS , UTS Economics Department

Violent childrearing practices are an invisible global health threat. A new study of 27 sub-Saharan African countries by Elisabetta De Cao & others explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices. scienedirect.com/science/articl…

Now at PNAS: Health information on population mortality risk can lead to better health behavior in unexpected crises. A 2017 information intervention led to higher COVID vax uptake years later in rural Malawi. Read pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… ParkJoonki, NOVAFRICA, @utsecon, PennPSC

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Surviving Bad News: Health Information without Treatment Options" by Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rebecca Thornton. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

NEW PARC & @PennDLI Research Brief: Correcting Pessimistic Mortality Beliefs May Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy, Malawi Study Shows Based on PNASNews: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… By helene purcell Iliana Kohler Alberto Ciancio James Mwera Adeline Delavande Victor Mwapasa Hans-Peter Kohler MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health

🆕 Why knowing your HIV status can be fatal when there are no treatment options Today on VoxDev, Alberto Ciancio UofG ASBS uofgasbs.bsky.social, Fabrice Kämpfen UCD Economics, Hans-Peter Kohler Sociology at Penn & Rebecca Thornton Baylor Business outline research on Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health/w…