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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:

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).

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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 looking for a postdoctoral scholar to come work with us at Indiana University! Please circulate widely. Posting at indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/24351 Application reviewing starts May 29th and continues til position is filled.

Because of high test rates, COVID tests of non-COVID hospitalized patients informative for overall prevalence. In the May issue, by Daniel Sacks (Dan Sacks), Coady Wing (Coady Wing), Nir Menachemi, Peter Embi (Peter Embí, MD, MS) zurl.co/ouwa

If you are attending @ashecon , come check out the New Difference-in-Differences Methods in Health Economics session (Monday 8:30am). Erin will be presenting UN-DID along with other new papers by Coady Wing and professional age forecaster.

Health economics pre-doc opening at O'Neill School at Indiana University. Come work with Kosali Simon, Seth Freedman, Sumedha Gupta, Alberto Ortega, Aparna Soni, Coady Wing, and more! Send recommendations. Apply at: tinyurl.com/mrxeavet

Huge thank you to Seth Freedman Kosali Simon Coady Wing & others O'Neill School at IU Indianapolis Indiana University Kelley School of Business IU Bloomington for including our paper at the 2024 Midwest Health Economics Conference and giving Lilly Springer KU Economics Madison & Lila Self Graduate Programs KUGradStudies KU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences the chance to present!

An incredible few days in Bloomington IU Bloomington Indiana University Kelley School of Business O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs to present new research at the 2024 Midwest Health Economics Conference! Thank you Kosali Simon Seth Freedman Coady Wing & others for including me on the program. So many cool inspiring ppl & papers!

Our latest research on “Do Workers Undervalue COVID-19 Risk – Evidence from Wages and Death Certificate Data” has been accepted in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty! Joint work with Ryan Sullivan Sumedha Gupta, Kosali Simon and Coady Wing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Workers appear to undervalue COVID-19 risks compared to traditional physical hazards, from Cong Gian, Sumedha Gupta, Kosali Simon, Ryan Sullivan, and Coady Wing nber.org/papers/w33031