Alex Hollingsworth
@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social
Economist interested in health and environmental topics.
🚨 We are hiring at Columbia! Columbia SIPA is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in environmental, resource, and/or energy economics. It is a very exciting time for env & energy economics at Columbia. Please share widely! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/190500
1/5 AEA journals have run a pilot using Refine, and author reactions were overwhelmingly positive: >90% favored incorporating Refine into the editorial process. Think of Refine not as a referee, but as a detailed technical proofreader. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky
Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association
Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical
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Great early-career opportunities to work in my group at the Cleveland Fed are now open! Traditional RA job: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo... Another requiring more experience/offering more autonomy: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo... Send us good people! Happy to answer questions
Research Analyst, Regional Analysis I/II
Company Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history. W...
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Are you or one of your students going on the #EconJobMarket this year? If so, you should check out two new resources that I posted to my website today. lillyspringer.github.io/JobMarket_No... lillyspringer.github.io/JobMarket_Sl...
I am SO EXCITED that the Journal of Stratification Economics is coming next year! This has been a labor of love to bring this to pass. Please consider submitting to this exciting new journal specializing in the best stratification economics research. @jsecon.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
Journal of Stratification Economics@jsecon.bsky.social · 2mo agoJSE, with @ucpress.bsky.social, is pleased to announce its planned inaugural issue scheduled for 2027. We encourage submissions of both original empirical and theoretical work for review and possible publication in the first few issues of the journal. Submit articles: jse.scholasticahq.com.
The Sloan Foundation is searching for a new Director of its Economics Program. At a critical time when federal research funding is limited, this is a critical position. Please circulate this opportunity to shape and support economics and economists widely! sloan.org/about/careers
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The Energy Institute at Haas is hiring an Office Manager. If interested, go to this Berkeley jobs page. External to UC and Internal applicants have separate links. Please search for job number “86265”. More info on EI: haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti... berkeley.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Apropos of some debate on Piketty-Saez-Zucman versus Auten-Splinter brewing again on the other site, let me post my lecture notes that does a deep dive into this, looking at both pre- and post-tax income inequality. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4k5gj...
Two more EPA RA opportunities for econ students, in the air office. Position 1: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... Position 2: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... #econ_ra
Zintellect - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - EPA Environmental and Health Economic Impact Analysis - EPA-OAR-2026-0002
*Applications may be reviewed on a rolling-basis and this posting could close before the deadline. EPA Office/Lab and Location: A research opportunity is c
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Will Wheeler@willwheels1.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy office (NCEE) is hiring an RA/pre-doc. This is an excellent opportunity for students interested in environmental economics. Term is for one year with possibility of renewal. Bachelor's or Master's required by 8/17. #econ_ra www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
The Upjohn Institute is hiring a full-time research analyst to support our team with statistical programming, data analysis, and other tasks. Read more about the role on our website: www.upjohn.org/sites... #econsky, #econ_ra
Self-serving, but if you're in the market for something different: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
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We had a last minute cancellation: does anyone with policy experience working in federal administrative agencies want to come talk to my HKS admin law seminar tomorrow (Friday 4/17) at 1pm ET about the role of policy experts in federal agencies? Happy to do remote - DM me if interested!
AJHE is now online! Our social media editor, Anna Chorniy, will be posting summaries of our accepted papers.
@ajhejournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew! Price transparency was meant to lower costs. In a large NY RCT, it instead raised charges ~1% (driven by lower-priced providers with few out-of-network patients) with no change in patient behavior -- likely helping providers benchmark, not consumers shop. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
🚨New Paper 🚨 with Dan Grossman and Sarah Hamersma! authors.elsevier.com/c/1mxflc24bE... In policy debates, we often say the U.S. system is “fragmented.” But what does that actually look like for families, and how has that evolved? and how has US policy shifted this?
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Is anyone thinking about submitting to APPAM this year a project on school segregation/composition or on high schools? I have an abstract that would fit nicely on a panel (but don't quite have the bandwidth to put a panel together myself)
Thanks to everyone—faculty, attendees, organizers, sponsors—for contributing to this terrific event. I'm privileged to know such a special group of people who work in health economics. www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
Another banger by @andydebarros.bsky.social: a reform in Moroccan middle schools ⬆️ learning 0.52sd. Put it alongside Mbiti & Rodriguez-Segura (2022) on Tanzania's foundational learning reform as examples of LMIC gov't-led reforms to increase learning at scale. portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/pre...
Back to the Basics: Curriculum Reform and Student Learning in Tanzania
In 2015, the Tanzanian government implemented a curriculum reform that focused instruction in Grades 1 and 2 on the “3Rs”—reading, writing, and arithmetic. Consequently, almost 80 percent of the instructional time in these grades was mandated towards foundational literacy in Kiswahili and numeracy skills. Other subjects such as English were no longer taught. Using student-level panel data, we evaluate the effect of this policy on learning outcomes using a difference-in-differences approach which leverages the variation in the timing of implementation across grade levels and cohorts impacted by the policy. We find that the policy increased learning by around 0.20 standard deviations in Kiswahili and math test scores one year after the start of the reform. Timely teacher training on the new curriculum was associated with even larger effects. Evaluating longer term outcomes, we find suggestive evidence that the reform decreased the dropout rate of children up to four years later. However, this was also accompanied with lower average passing rates in the national Grade 4 examination due to compositional changes as low-performing students became less likely to dropout.
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Andy de Barros@andydebarros.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew paper: Morocco's Pioneer Middle Schools—a government-led whole-school reform—improved socioemotional skills, tripled year-on-year learning, reduced dropout ~1/3. "Beyond Basics" w/ Campos Quintero, El Amrani Mida, Glewwe, Kumar, and Lépine de-barros.com/publication/... @cega-uc.bsky.social
The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment
Today is the deadline to apply for the Visuals Editor opening at @propublica.org. This is a vital role in our newsroom, requiring someone who can move between high-level art direction and precise photo editing across multiple desks. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
It's @aefpweb.bsky.social Conference week! The EdDev community group will host a panel on "How to Conduct Education Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Friday March 20, 2:45-4:15pm. All are welcome! #econsky #edusky
We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Data Analyst in Dean of Research, Stanford, California, United States
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is seeking a research data analyst (RDA) to contribute to several academic research projects...
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The abstract submission deadline for HHES is coming up in 10 day (March 15). It's always a great set of papers and an amazing setting, so don't miss it! tinyurl.com/HHES2026-Inv...
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David Bradford@bradfowd1.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe call for abstracts for the 2026 Highland Health Economics Symposium is out - see details below. Abstract deadline is March 15. This invitational conference emphasizes bringing junior and senior people together and promotes fun along the way. Hope to see you there! tinyurl.com/HHES2026-Inv...
🎉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
Do you have a topic you would like to see in the AEA Recent Developments series? We want to hear from you! Send suggested topics and lecturers to assa@vanderbilt.edu. #econsky
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Sebastian Tello Trillo@sebastiantt.bsky.social · 6mo agoAre you a PhD Student curious about working in topics of health and aging? Do you feel like you may need extra support? I have a program for you! A one-day mentoring workshop hosted by yours truly and Jetson Leder-Luis (BU) through @nber.org www.nber.org/calls-papers...
My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities. The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills. Application👇
The call for abstracts for the 2026 Highland Health Economics Symposium is out - see details below. Abstract deadline is March 15. This invitational conference emphasizes bringing junior and senior people together and promotes fun along the way. Hope to see you there! tinyurl.com/HHES2026-Inv...
HHES2026_Invite_260131.pdf
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