Chris Lowenstein
@clowenstein.bsky.social
Postdoc at Mizzou Economics (Aug 2025) 🏔️
Research on health, labor & social/economic policy
www.christopherlowenstein.com
Research on health, labor & social/economic policy
www.christopherlowenstein.com
📣 📣 Working on exciting research in the area of health, labor markets, and the economy? Send us your abstracts for the 2026 ASHEcon conference by Dec 10! Also seeking abstract reviewers 🙏 More info below ⬇️ . Join us and present your work in Minneapolis!
SUBMIT: individual abstracts to be combined into sessions, organized sessions made up of 3 abstracts, individual abstracts for emerging scholars sessions and submissions for policy roundtables, spotlight sessions. Deadline 12.10.25.
https://www.ashecon.org/2026-minneapolis/2026-call-for-abstracts/
https://www.ashecon.org/2026-minneapolis/2026-call-for-abstracts/
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📣 📣 Working on exciting research in the area of health, labor markets, and the economy? Send us your abstracts for the 2026 ASHEcon conference by Dec 10! Also seeking abstract reviewers 🙏 More info below ⬇️ . Join us and present your work in Minneapolis!
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1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
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OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆
September 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆
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Check out our new 📊 State of Working America Data Library! 📊 It provides easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the US economy 🧵
All the data, none of the confusion💡
data.epi.org?utm_source=b...
All the data, none of the confusion💡
data.epi.org?utm_source=b...
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Check out our new 📊 State of Working America Data Library! 📊 It provides easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the US economy 🧵
All the data, none of the confusion💡
data.epi.org?utm_source=b...
All the data, none of the confusion💡
data.epi.org?utm_source=b...
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New study with @wrigleyfield.bsky.social & colleagues finds that excess deaths among young U.S. adults have surged since 2011, accelerating during the pandemic and remaining high in 2023. Our research shows that this crisis extends far beyond drug overdoses. 🧵 (1/6)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023
This cross-sectional study examines trends in mortality rates among adults aged 25 to 44 years across the pre–COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic, and postpandemic periods.
jamanetwork.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New study with @wrigleyfield.bsky.social & colleagues finds that excess deaths among young U.S. adults have surged since 2011, accelerating during the pandemic and remaining high in 2023. Our research shows that this crisis extends far beyond drug overdoses. 🧵 (1/6)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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From the Urban Institute, interactive state-by-state data on losses in ACA marketplace coverage and increases in the uninsured if the enhanced subsidies are allowed to expire next year. #healthpolicy www.urban.org/data-tools/h...
Who Would Lose Coverage If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire?
The expiration of the pandemic-era enhanced premium tax credits risks leaving 4 million people without health insurance.
www.urban.org
November 20, 2024 at 6:58 PM
From the Urban Institute, interactive state-by-state data on losses in ACA marketplace coverage and increases in the uninsured if the enhanced subsidies are allowed to expire next year. #healthpolicy www.urban.org/data-tools/h...
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1/ Sometimes our #policies encode assumptions about people that need not be true.
I'm really proud of @mihirkakara.bsky.social led this study on a hard question (conceptually+empirically):
Would repealing sub-minimum wage allows adults for #disability improve or worsen #labormarket outcomes?
I'm really proud of @mihirkakara.bsky.social led this study on a hard question (conceptually+empirically):
Would repealing sub-minimum wage allows adults for #disability improve or worsen #labormarket outcomes?
1)For 86 yrs, it's been legal for people with disabilities in certain jobs to be paid subminimum wages. The assumption: they're less productive & if not for these jobs, they would be unemployed.
In this @JAMAHealthForum paper, @atheendar.bsky.social & I ask if it’s true.
tinyurl.com/23yu86jf
In this @JAMAHealthForum paper, @atheendar.bsky.social & I ask if it’s true.
tinyurl.com/23yu86jf
Repeal of Subminimum Wages and Social Determinants of Health Among People With Disabilities
This difference-in-differences study estimates whether state-level repeal of Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act was associated with employment-related outcomes for people with cognitive dis...
tinyurl.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
1/ Sometimes our #policies encode assumptions about people that need not be true.
I'm really proud of @mihirkakara.bsky.social led this study on a hard question (conceptually+empirically):
Would repealing sub-minimum wage allows adults for #disability improve or worsen #labormarket outcomes?
I'm really proud of @mihirkakara.bsky.social led this study on a hard question (conceptually+empirically):
Would repealing sub-minimum wage allows adults for #disability improve or worsen #labormarket outcomes?
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While a MSA or a Commuting Zone might include a dozen counties, the "SLMs" proposed by our @timbartik.bsky.social tend to be slimmer, containing a few counties or just one. The key is how counties respond to job losses and gains in neighboring counties. 📉📈
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
November 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
While a MSA or a Commuting Zone might include a dozen counties, the "SLMs" proposed by our @timbartik.bsky.social tend to be slimmer, containing a few counties or just one. The key is how counties respond to job losses and gains in neighboring counties. 📉📈
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
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Can't believe we're back here, but in case you need a refresher on the damage that might be done to the country if ACA repeal gains steam.
www.urban.org/research/pub...
www.urban.org/research/pub...
Repeal of the Affordable Care Act
www.urban.org
November 14, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Can't believe we're back here, but in case you need a refresher on the damage that might be done to the country if ACA repeal gains steam.
www.urban.org/research/pub...
www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: "How Health Disparities Develop over the Lifecycle"
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/how-health-disparities-develop-over-lifecycle
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/how-health-disparities-develop-over-lifecycle
November 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: "How Health Disparities Develop over the Lifecycle"
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/how-health-disparities-develop-over-lifecycle
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/how-health-disparities-develop-over-lifecycle
Such an important topic that we as pop health researchers must seriously engage with and think critically about.
Will use this opportunity to plug some of my own work on perceived racial economic threat and suicide (working paper coming soon). Summary slides here, feedback welcome! shorturl.at/1bNu2
Will use this opportunity to plug some of my own work on perceived racial economic threat and suicide (working paper coming soon). Summary slides here, feedback welcome! shorturl.at/1bNu2
November 9, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Such an important topic that we as pop health researchers must seriously engage with and think critically about.
Will use this opportunity to plug some of my own work on perceived racial economic threat and suicide (working paper coming soon). Summary slides here, feedback welcome! shorturl.at/1bNu2
Will use this opportunity to plug some of my own work on perceived racial economic threat and suicide (working paper coming soon). Summary slides here, feedback welcome! shorturl.at/1bNu2
Reposted by Chris Lowenstein
Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips.
You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...
You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...
November 30, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips.
You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...
You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...