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Featured in the latest Digest: "The Price of Consolidation: Evidence from Anesthesia Practice Rollups" nber.org/digest/202503/…

What was in your milk back in the 1880s? D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Charles, Michael McKelligott, and Daniel Rees show that urban milk inspections reduced deaths from waterborne diseases by up to 32% after 10 years. #ConsumerProtection #PublicHealth jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Maternal early-life exposure to legal abortion improves birth weights and rates of low birth weight in the next generation, driven by educational attainment, and prenatal care, from Hamid Noghanibehambari, David Slusky, and Hoa Vu nber.org/papers/w33571

Happening next week!

During the early #pandemic, states banned elective procedures. @Andersen_hecon, Sylvia Bryan, and David Slusky found that this led to a 18% drop in abortion clinic visits, 18,000 fewer abortions, and 8,400 additional births in 2020. #PublicHealth jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Our MVPF estimates for expanding Medicaid to formerly incarcerated individuals have been added to the Policy Impacts Library (Policy Impacts). Check it out: policyimpacts.org/policy-impacts…

🆕 War in the womb: How conflict hurts children in Afghanistan Erkmen G. Aslim University of Vermont, Rafiuddin Najam & 𝔼𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕝 𝕋𝕖𝕜𝕚𝕟 School of Public Affairs outline evidence showing that girls exposed to war violence in utero suffer long-term setbacks in learning & development: voxdev.org/topic/health/w…

Girls exposed to war in utero face lifelong setbacks. As conflicts expose millions of children to early-life trauma, the risks we uncover in Afghanistan are increasingly global. Our VoxDev piece is now live. Check it out: voxdev.org/topic/health/w…

As global conflicts grow, new evidence from Afghanistan shows that girls exposed to war violence in utero suffer long-term setbacks in learning and development. Addressing these hidden costs of conflict must be part of any strategy for peace and reconstruction.

Lowering administrative burdens raises take-up of subsidized health plans more than reminder nudges. Just Accepted new paper by K. Marzilli Ericson (Keith Marzilli Ericson (he/him/his)), T. J. Layton (Timothy Layton), A. McIntyre (Adrianna McIntyre (@adrianna.bsky.social)) and A. Sacarny (Adam Sacarny) zurl.co/js0uP

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in PNASNews We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage. 🔗pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Medicaid saves lives. And it's a cost-effective investment too.

How different researcher decisions — specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretation of a policy question — affect the variation in estimated treatment effects, from Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus C. Portner, Ian McCarthy, and The Many Economists Collaborative

Today, Donald J. Trump (The White House) signed an executive order on drug pricing. Thank you to everyone who pointed out that Shosh Vasserman, Pierre Dubois, and I looked at this sort of policy in our paper. A quick thread on the main results with some important nuance.

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso" by Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Pauline Rossi. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

The idea that the cost of healthcare could easily be reduced by cutting unnecessary admin is too good to be true: nber.org/papers/w33863

"We find that increased access to ... Medicaid coverage reduces recidivism among offenders convicted of violent and public order crimes." "there are substantial cost reductions from providing Medicaidcoverage to former inmates"

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income" by Amelia Hawkins, Christopher Hollrah, Sarah Miller, Laura R. Wherry, Gloria Aldana, and Mitchell Wong. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

The keynote lecture by Janet Currie at the 14th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior. youtube.com/live/x20Rs3_9z… School of Public Affairs

Just published in Journal of Public Economics "From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination" By Erkmen G. Aslim, Wei Fu, 𝔼𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕝 𝕋𝕖𝕜𝕚𝕟 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #EconTwitter