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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · 16d

Olanrewaju Yusuff (@olayusuff.bsky.social) studies how healthcare access shapes population health—covering mental health (JMP), EMS, & maternal care. Using causal inference + new U.S./Nigeria data, he offers the first causal evidence on these vital questions
🔗 olanrewajuyusuffecon.github.io/website/

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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · 16d

Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky

👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.

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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · Aug 17

Our 2nd annual @gsueconomics.bsky.social PhD Summer Symposium was a success! 🎉 It was great to showcase our GSU Economics JMCs for 2025–26.

Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!

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Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · Jul 24

2025 Professional Development Training Participant: Olanrewaju Yusuff, PhD candidate in the Department of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. @olayusuff.bsky.social‬ @gsueconomics.bsky.social‬ (12/12)

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Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Apr 17

#EconSky Seeking 1-2 papers for the #2025APPAM panel on public insurance mandates & healthcare access! Our paper with @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social and Yu-Ting Huang explores Medicaid CNM reimbursement & midwife delivery growth. Need papers on health policy, labor markets, or reimbursement. Thanks!

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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · Jan 16

Excited for our spring seminar lineup at @gsueconomics.bsky.social !!

If you’re in the Atlanta area, reach out to me if you want to drop in on one of these talks.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Feb 3

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API

- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

Screenshot from my backup ForeignAssistance dot gov site, with links to different USAID datasets

Screenshot from a live map that uses data from the backup API

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 1

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · Feb 1

🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down.

Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here:

data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

County-level data on U.S. opioid distributions, demographics, healthcare supply, and healthcare access

This repository includes data from the Health Resources & Services Administration's Area Health Resources Files (years 2000-2001, 2004-2022), CDC Wonder, National Conference of State Legislatures, and...

data.mendeley.com

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Maggie Reeves @maggiereeves1.bsky.social · Dec 11

Tim Sass leaves behind an indelible impact on metro Atlanta #students through changed policies, and the #econofed field is better for his integrity and work. He also made a true difference in my career for which I will always be grateful. Cheers 🍻 to Tim!

news.gsu.edu/2024/12/10/n...

Nationally Recognized Education Scholar and Economist Tim Sass Retiring

Distinguished University Professor Tim Sass is retiring from Georgia State University at the end of the year after more than 40 years of service.

news.gsu.edu

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Jori Barash @joribarash.bsky.social · Oct 22

Hi! I’m Jori Barash, an IO JMC from UT Austin

Physicians often face a single payment formula. My #EconJMP asks whether they should have a choice. A short thread...

Full: https://buff.ly/3YuDJPp
Site: joribarash.com (more on health/higher ed/environment/housing)

Should Physicians Choose Their Reimbursement Rate? Menu Design for Physician Payment Contracts. Abstract: The optimal design of physician reimbursement contracts is challenging because there is information asymmetry between physicians and patients. Common reimbursement arrangements like a piece rate ("fee-for-service") or a flat fee ("capitation") are widely believed to incentivize wasteful spending or inadequate treatment. Moreover, a physician's socially efficient reimbursement arrangement may vary with unobserved characteristics like cost of effort, productivity, and altruism. I show how offering physicians a menu of reimbursement contracts can improve welfare. Depending on the correlation in physicians' private information, the private and social benefits of a high piece rate may be aligned. I develop a model of physician treatment decision-making and estimate model primitives using detailed administrative data on Norwegian primary care physicians and their patients. [...]

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · Nov 27

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased.

If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · Nov 27

I literally showed that child mortality video this in class today. Everyone seems only vaguely impressed until I describe how my first born almost died shortly after birth (www.ryancbriggs.net/blog/2015/10...). It’s wild to me how much we need stories to even start to grasp something numerical.

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Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks Tej!

Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks!

Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 20

Great list! Can you add me please. Thanks!

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Adam Raymakers @araymakers.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've created a #healtheconomics starter pack! There's a few other great packs out there but in this one I've tried to make it more international! 🌎

Let me know if you'd like to be added or if you have recommendations.

And feel free to share!

go.bsky.app/8Lj8FLB

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Nov 11

#EconTwitter #econsky: announcement of call for mentors + opportunity for paper feedback for scholars from LMICs (repeating a success from last year)! tl;dr sign up either to submit a paper (if you're a junior scholar from a LMIC) or review a paper (any post-PhD scholar).

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · Nov 18

A newly precise null result on whether Medicaid induces cross-state migration, in an extensive job market paper by Carl McPherson. carlmcpherson.github.io

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Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 18

Reach out if you have any work that meets this criteria. My email is on my website if DMs are not open. Thanks!

Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hey #EconSky! #ASHEcon! @tejendrapsingh.bsky.social and I are looking for papers that fits broadly into the category of “Health and Development/Health Equity/Mental Health” and specifically into the category of access to health services to create a session at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social…

ASHEcon @ashecon.bsky.social · Nov 13

The call for abstracts for the 14th ASHEcon Conference is now open! The conference will be held June 22-25, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Nashville in Nashville, TN.

Submit here 👉 www.ashecon.org/announcement...

The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM PST.

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Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 18

Yes! Thank you, Professor Lauren.

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Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi Professor Lauren, Can you please add me to the GSU park?
@olayusuff.bsky.social
. Thank you!

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Olanrewaju Yusuff @olayusuff.bsky.social · Nov 18

Yes, please.

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