🎉Introducing Dr. David Powell as a new Senior Fellow at Penn LDI!
Dr. Powell is a health economist with research on the opioid crisis, population aging, working conditions, and end-of-life care.
Learn more about his work: https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/david-powell-phd
Congrats to Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy (@hthirumurthy.bsky.social) on being named CHIBE's inaugural endowed chair! chibe.upenn.edu/news/dr-hars...
This is really good- Luigi and his colleagues are both excellent economists and real health scholars who do important, useful, work every day. It shows in this book.
Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., internationally recognized leader in health policy and economics, beloved teacher, loving patriarch, and inaugural chair of the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), passed away on January 1, 2026.
“Our country has lost a legend.” masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
We mourn the loss of Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., a leader in health policy and economics and the inaugural chair of the HPC.
“Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.
Long-term care needs are rising—but federal policy isn’t keeping pace. A new brief from Penn LDI, drawing on research by Allison K. Hoffman, Rachel Werner, and Tamara Konetzka, explores today’s LTC challenges and opportunities for reform. https://penncareylaw.news/4aPHvcw
In case anyone is interested, here is my latest contribution to DiD. In this case, nonlinear models with repeated cross sections. A (short) paper will be ready soon. It's nothing path breaking but shows the obvious extensions from the panel data case works.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/lne2y...
TWFE is not perfect, of course. But when selection is largely based on time-constant unobservables, it can still be very effective. We have to use a flexible enough model, but that’s on us — not on the estimator. We can allow lots of heterogeneity. Plus, we sometimes can combine with IV.
Tragic death of John Leahy. An amazing economist, wonderful adviser, consistently modest and kind, he will be greatly missed.
May his memory be a blessing.
Kate Ho at the beach.
The Economics Department at @Princeton is saddened to share the news of Professor Kate Ho's passing. Professor Ho was an exemplary teacher, researcher, adviser, colleague, and friend. She will be dearly missed.
https://bit.ly/497s4Lw
My boss is very fast.
It was a pleasure attending the #AHEW at @umich.edu this year. It was a great opportunity to get in-depth exposure to cutting edge econometric work. Special thanks to @edwardnorton.bsky.social, #NickPapaGeorge, & many others for organizing & hosting a great workshop.
6. and @johnmullahy.bsky.social and @edwardnorton.bsky.social, recipients of the Willard G. Manning Memorial Award (health econometrics research)
www.ashecon.org/activities/n...
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📈 Once niche, health economics is now central to the field.
A new study shows its share in top journals tripled since the 1990s—driven not by conformity, but by innovative, high-quality research.
Health is shaping the future of economics.
It is with great sadness that I learned today of the passing of my friend, mentor, and co-author Dr. Allen Goodman. Allen was an exceptional mentor and was kind, thoughtful, and supportive. I am passing his legacy on, teach the next generation of health economists.
Today's date, 7/24/25, is a Pythagorean triple. The next one will be next century: on 2103/04/05.
The Int’l Health Econ Assn (IHEA) is searching for a health economics researcher to serve as its next Exec Director
healtheconomics.org/job-advertisem…
Need something to distract you from the news?
Try my interactive map of @umich.edu medical history!
michmed.org/NYAyW
(Click the pins to see and read about each building)
Read more about how we went from one building on the Diag to today's Michigan Medicine: michmed.org/vQ5eZ #medhist #histmed
Last week 7 leading journals (including Health Economics) distributed a joint statement on editorial independence and academic freedom. Today, IHEA (the International Health Economics Association) joins our statement in solidarity. See their endorsement on the IHEA homepage:
healtheconomics.org
Thank you to IHEA for joining with the health economics journal editorial boards in defending academic freedom and editorial independence. The IHEA May Newsletter has both their endorsement and our original statement: healtheconomics.org/wp-content/u...
The Editorial Board of Health Economics is very pleased to congratulate one of our own, Prof. Bruce Hollingsworth, on being appointed a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. This is a high and well-deserved honour! Read all about it here:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/oyal-ec...
A direct link to this statement can be found below. Please distribute this widely so that all of our colleagues in the discipline can see that their work is valued and that we will not collaborate with, or tolerate, political coercion.
sites.google.com/view/joint-s...
The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.
Correction: Hainmueller and Yiqing Xu (2013) in JSS.
Original paper by Hainmueller (2012) in Political Analysis. See also Hainmueller and Yu (2013) in J Statistical Software. Nick Huntinton-Klein has examples in book "The Effect". Stata has software: ebalance.
Use entropy balancing.
Well these are the most appropriate and reasonable award winners in the history of award winners. Congrats! @johnmullahy.bsky.social @edwardnorton.bsky.social
Congratulations @johnmullahy.bsky.social & @edwardnorton.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉!!! Very well deserved!
Does having #healthinsurance actually improve health and reduce mortality?
Two of our members have done an exhaustive review of the literature & published it in the @qjeharvard.bsky.social.
In a nutshell, their conclusion: Yes.
Read the full paper: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #econsky
A gut punch reminder. Thank you Will, and thank you John for reminding us.
