Michael Pesko
@mikepesko.bsky.social
Mizzou Econ Prof | Health Economist | PI of NIH lab on #tobacco & #audiology | Director of TOPS (@tobaccopolicy.org) | Fellow IZA | Guiding impactful, high-quality research. #EconSky
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Check out the TOPS website for the video recording 📹from last week's presentation by Bingjin Xue on "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulations on Birth Outcomes".
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Check out the TOPS website for the video recording 📹from last week's presentation by Bingjin Xue on "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulations on Birth Outcomes".
Thought-provoking: “I would argue antismoking campaigns were too effective [...] that paved the way for vaping. When vaping became uncool, it paved the path for cigarettes.”
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Celebrities Are Making Smoking Cigarettes Cool Again
Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Thought-provoking: “I would argue antismoking campaigns were too effective [...] that paved the way for vaping. When vaping became uncool, it paved the path for cigarettes.”
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For those in the early stages of their careers—who have not yet served on an NIH study section or held an R01-equivalent PI role—register as an Early Career Reviewer.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
For those in the early stages of their careers—who have not yet served on an NIH study section or held an R01-equivalent PI role—register as an Early Career Reviewer.
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There are about 20 pop-level natural experiment-style studies of e-cig regulation on smoking, most of which find e-cig regulation increases smoking.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
There are about 20 pop-level natural experiment-style studies of e-cig regulation on smoking, most of which find e-cig regulation increases smoking.
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Job opportunity - come and join our incredible research team led by Maria Steenland at UMD as a health data analyst - partial or full telework will be considered. Happy to answer any questions over email, info here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... #healthpolicy
Faculty Specialist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: Assistant Professor Dr. Maria Steenland is seeking a health data analyst (functional title) / Faculty Specialist (business title) to join a re...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Job opportunity - come and join our incredible research team led by Maria Steenland at UMD as a health data analyst - partial or full telework will be considered. Happy to answer any questions over email, info here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... #healthpolicy
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Your disrespect isn't cool. There is no place in academia for that.
Like we told you at the time, have a qualifying co-author submit the work and it will be fairly considered based on its merits, just like any other submission.
Like we told you at the time, have a qualifying co-author submit the work and it will be fairly considered based on its merits, just like any other submission.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Your disrespect isn't cool. There is no place in academia for that.
Like we told you at the time, have a qualifying co-author submit the work and it will be fairly considered based on its merits, just like any other submission.
Like we told you at the time, have a qualifying co-author submit the work and it will be fairly considered based on its merits, just like any other submission.
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#ASHEcon2026 I am organizing 2 sessions for conference in Minneapolis, MN June 7-10.
Looking for abstracts:
1) policy revolving around marijuana and alcohol use or co-use of illicit drugs
2) policy food/nutritional changes from drug decriminalization/legalization, or other impactful policy.
Looking for abstracts:
1) policy revolving around marijuana and alcohol use or co-use of illicit drugs
2) policy food/nutritional changes from drug decriminalization/legalization, or other impactful policy.
November 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#ASHEcon2026 I am organizing 2 sessions for conference in Minneapolis, MN June 7-10.
Looking for abstracts:
1) policy revolving around marijuana and alcohol use or co-use of illicit drugs
2) policy food/nutritional changes from drug decriminalization/legalization, or other impactful policy.
Looking for abstracts:
1) policy revolving around marijuana and alcohol use or co-use of illicit drugs
2) policy food/nutritional changes from drug decriminalization/legalization, or other impactful policy.
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I looked at the position paper you referenced. I don't believe it engages a single quasi-experimental study for the conclusions reached. Systematic reviews of the quasi-experimental evidence show the opposite conclusion: e-cigarettes displace smoking.
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I looked at the position paper you referenced. I don't believe it engages a single quasi-experimental study for the conclusions reached. Systematic reviews of the quasi-experimental evidence show the opposite conclusion: e-cigarettes displace smoking.
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There are hundreds of longitudinal studies showing what we’d expect: e-cigarettes harm some people and help others. The key question is the net effect.
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
There are hundreds of longitudinal studies showing what we’d expect: e-cigarettes harm some people and help others. The key question is the net effect.
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💬 Viewpoint: Innovations like e-cigarettes provide rapid nicotine delivery with reduced health risks compared to cigarettes, yet misinformation and regulatory barriers limit their impact on smoking-related disease.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
💬 Viewpoint: Innovations like e-cigarettes provide rapid nicotine delivery with reduced health risks compared to cigarettes, yet misinformation and regulatory barriers limit their impact on smoking-related disease.
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New Viewpoint in @jamahealthforum.com with @jhb19.bsky.social, Benowitz, and @rachelylfung.bsky.social. We argue e-cigs are not a radical break, but a predictable technological step in a long history of people seeking rapid nicotine delivery with less harm.
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3
E-Cigarettes in Historical Context
This Viewpoint discusses the potential for e-cigarettes to displace smoking, restrictive regulations, and public misperceptions amid enduring nicotine demand and persistent smoking-related disease.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New Viewpoint in @jamahealthforum.com with @jhb19.bsky.social, Benowitz, and @rachelylfung.bsky.social. We argue e-cigs are not a radical break, but a predictable technological step in a long history of people seeking rapid nicotine delivery with less harm.
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3
Anybody else seeing evidence of recent #inflation? My small observation is #Publix yogurt cups went up from $0.50 (already high in my opinion) to $0.60 overnight. 1/6
October 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Anybody else seeing evidence of recent #inflation? My small observation is #Publix yogurt cups went up from $0.50 (already high in my opinion) to $0.60 overnight. 1/6
Check out the ❄️Winter❄️ series lineup! TOPS is back with more great tobacco policy research on Friday 10/24 2PM ET, featuring Jamie Hartmann-Boyce.
TOPS is:
➡️ Free 🥳
➡️ Open to all 👋
👉 Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
👉 Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
TOPS is:
➡️ Free 🥳
➡️ Open to all 👋
👉 Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
👉 Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My co-author Rachel Fung is presenting an awesome paper tomorrow at 2 PM New York time on early 20th century cigarette prohibition laws in the USA! #History buffs, get your popcorn out. Registration is free; see you there.
🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, September 19 2pm ET
➡️"Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality"
➡️@rachelylfung.bsky.social from @mizzouecon.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
➡️Friday, September 19 2pm ET
➡️"Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality"
➡️@rachelylfung.bsky.social from @mizzouecon.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My co-author Rachel Fung is presenting an awesome paper tomorrow at 2 PM New York time on early 20th century cigarette prohibition laws in the USA! #History buffs, get your popcorn out. Registration is free; see you there.
Submit your research with #tobacco policy implications to TOPS by Monday for consideration in the next TOPS season. We accept presentations from graduate students on through professors; from working papers through published papers.
Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters:
✅quasi- & experimental tobacco policy research OK
👉exposure among a diverse global audience
👉helpful feedback from audience comments
🗓️Deadline: 9/22
✏️Submit: tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
✅quasi- & experimental tobacco policy research OK
👉exposure among a diverse global audience
👉helpful feedback from audience comments
🗓️Deadline: 9/22
✏️Submit: tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
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September 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Submit your research with #tobacco policy implications to TOPS by Monday for consideration in the next TOPS season. We accept presentations from graduate students on through professors; from working papers through published papers.
We recently published a paper in @jamaotolaryngology.com that studies labor supply for #audiology. We find hearing healthcare is difficult to access: 75.0% of USA counties were classified as shortage counties.
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Using Supply and Demand to Identify Shortages in the Hearing Health Care Professional Workforce
This quality improvement study measures the US hearing health care professional workforce from 2012 to 2022 and identifies areas experiencing shortages in 2019.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We recently published a paper in @jamaotolaryngology.com that studies labor supply for #audiology. We find hearing healthcare is difficult to access: 75.0% of USA counties were classified as shortage counties.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Enjoyed the @socialimpactlab.bsky.social welcome dinner + #karaoke night for @mizzouecon.bsky.social graduate students and post-docs. Excited for the academic year ahead and for a great new cohort of students! #EconSky
September 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Enjoyed the @socialimpactlab.bsky.social welcome dinner + #karaoke night for @mizzouecon.bsky.social graduate students and post-docs. Excited for the academic year ahead and for a great new cohort of students! #EconSky
Very cool that TOPS just celebrated its 5-year birthday. It's been fun being part of organizing team.
🎉The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar turns 5 today! 🎉
Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.
Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.
Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Very cool that TOPS just celebrated its 5-year birthday. It's been fun being part of organizing team.
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🎉The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar turns 5 today! 🎉
Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.
Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.
Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🎉The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar turns 5 today! 🎉
Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.
Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.
Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
New paper alert! We use claims data to find that paid sick leave mandates in the USA increased a wide array of different healthcare visits, particularly for individuals in industries with low PSL coverage historically, and along the extensive margin of any visit.
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Health care utilization following the adoption of U.S. paid sick leave mandates: a cohort study using health insurance claims data
The U.S. is one of the only developed countries in the world without a federal requirement that employers provide paid sick leave (PSL) to workers. We…
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July 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
New paper alert! We use claims data to find that paid sick leave mandates in the USA increased a wide array of different healthcare visits, particularly for individuals in industries with low PSL coverage historically, and along the extensive margin of any visit.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Awesome dinner and music with colleagues at #ASHEcon2025 #Nashville.
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Awesome dinner and music with colleagues at #ASHEcon2025 #Nashville.
Another amazing TOPS season announced today, which includes researchers from NZ, UK, Canada, and Switzerland. We also have a panel of two researchers with similar papers and reaching different conclusions! Registration is free, hope to see you starting 5 PM ET this Thursday.
Check out our Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on THURSDAY 4/24 5PM ET, featuring Natalie Walker.
TOPS is:
➡️Free🥳
➡️Open to all 🙂👋
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2...
👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
TOPS is:
➡️Free🥳
➡️Open to all 🙂👋
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2...
👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
April 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Another amazing TOPS season announced today, which includes researchers from NZ, UK, Canada, and Switzerland. We also have a panel of two researchers with similar papers and reaching different conclusions! Registration is free, hope to see you starting 5 PM ET this Thursday.
Not too late to apply for the next TOPS season. Abstracts / papers are due by midnight on Monday. Send us your work!
Submit or nominate research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters:
✅quasi- & experimental tobacco policy research
✅just published or almost ready research
👉exposure among a diverse global audience
👉helpful feedback from audience comments
🗓️Deadline: 4/7
✏️Submit: tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
✅quasi- & experimental tobacco policy research
✅just published or almost ready research
👉exposure among a diverse global audience
👉helpful feedback from audience comments
🗓️Deadline: 4/7
✏️Submit: tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
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April 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Not too late to apply for the next TOPS season. Abstracts / papers are due by midnight on Monday. Send us your work!
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Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters:
✅exposure among a diverse global audience (avg 164 attendees!)
✅helpful feedback from audience comments
✅opportunities to network
👉 tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
🗓️Deadline: 4/7
✅exposure among a diverse global audience (avg 164 attendees!)
✅helpful feedback from audience comments
✅opportunities to network
👉 tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
🗓️Deadline: 4/7
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March 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters:
✅exposure among a diverse global audience (avg 164 attendees!)
✅helpful feedback from audience comments
✅opportunities to network
👉 tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
🗓️Deadline: 4/7
✅exposure among a diverse global audience (avg 164 attendees!)
✅helpful feedback from audience comments
✅opportunities to network
👉 tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
🗓️Deadline: 4/7
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Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v