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Lauren Hersch Nicholas

@lhnicholas.bsky.social

health economist, climber, biker, looking for my #econtwitter, #econsky, #surgtweets, #healthpolicyvalentines communities

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Alison Preston@aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One thing I wish we talked about more explicitly with #earlycareer faculty is how gradually the pool of people who'll write their tenure letters develops. Impressions form slowly over the pre-tenure years, which makes visibility much easier to build over time than to manufacture later.

nfographic titled "Building Visibility in the Pre-Tenure Years." Four rows, each pairing an observation on the left with a corresponding action on the right. Row one. Observation: the tenure-letter pool forms gradually. The pool of people who may eventually write tenure letters is not formed in year five, it develops gradually across the pre-tenure years. Action: build visibility early. By the time a tenure case is assembled, many scholars have already formed impressions through talks, preprints, grants, and conversations. Pull quote: "Start in year one, not when tenure is approaching." Row two. Observation: visibility is not just networking. The goal is not to collect contacts. The goal is for the right people to understand your questions, your trajectory, and your contributions. Action: make the work legible. Help others understand what problems you are trying to solve and how your work is changing the conversation. Pull quote: "Who should understand your work, and why?" Row three. Observation: impressions build through substantive engagement. Conference talks, seminars, preprints, workshops, panels, and study sections all help others see how you think. Action: share ideas consistently. Visibility grows through repeated, substantive forms of engagement. Strong work matters, but it also has to be visible and legible to the field. Pull quote: "Share ideas early and often." Row four. Observation: sponsorship carries real weight. Senior faculty can help make visibility possible by opening doors to the conversations where reputations are formed. Action: turn mentorship into sponsorship. Nominate early-career colleagues for talks and panels. Introduce them to people who should know their work. Pull quote: "Small acts of sponsorship can carry real weight.
Lauren Hersch Nicholas@lhnicholas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

great talking with @wailinwong.bsky.social about early dementia-linked financial problems. Hoping that our work can help prevent situations like Sanda's in the future

Wailin Wong@wailinwong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I learned a lot reporting this story about how financial red flags can pop up SIX YEARS before a dementia diagnosis. Thanks to @lhnicholas.bsky.social for sharing her research and to Sanda, a woman who told us about discovering her dad's cognitive and financial decline. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

Adam Sacarny@asacarny.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CMS makes it official: no plans to cancel physical Medicare and Medicaid data access, forcing everyone to use the VRDC enclave. Instead, some more paperwork to make and extend DUAs – which is way better than what they were proposing!

Screenshot of e-mail from CMS saying "CMS has decided to delay the requirement to transition all research studies into the CCW VRDC indefinitely."
Lauren Hersch Nicholas@lhnicholas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

listen to CRR and read our paper on dementia's impact on household finances: www.nber.org/papers/w34659

Dementia and Long-run Trajectories in Household Finances

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Center for Retirement Research at Boston College@crrbc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What We’re Reading Now A hand-picked list of recommendations from CRR researchers. Featuring articles on how dementia impacts long-run household finances, Secure 2.0, and emergency savings and credit card debt. bit.ly/4sksnKC #EconSky

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

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Lauren Hersch Nicholas@lhnicholas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

More on dementia & finances: similar to credit outcomes, we see declines on asset side start about 6 years before dementia onset, patterns are consistent with mistakes driving declines, not healthcare spending or spenddown

NBER@nber.org · 7mo ago

Household wealth begins to decline six years before the onset of dementia, largely because of poor financial decisions, from Jing Li, Kathleen M. McGarry, @lhnicholas.bsky.social, and Jonathan S. Skinner www.nber.org/papers/w34659

CSWEP@aeacswep.bsky.social · 9mo ago

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

Michael Baym@baym.lol · 9mo ago

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

Lauren Hersch Nicholas@lhnicholas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Yes to all of these! And don‘t crowd tables with meaningless extra digits just because they are software defaults!

Jessica Leight@leightjessica.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Short 🧵 on boring but imp topic: how to format tables! First, + most imp point: table in an econ paper should be comprehensible w/o any cross-reference to text. Variables should be clearly defined (not "lnconsexp"; write "Consumption)"; + specification described in notes

Mark Hayward@mdhayward.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My research team has published research showing that malnutrition and hunger in childhood are long-term risk factors for dementia decades later in life. Makes me think about the long-term health consequences of withholding SNAP benefits from families.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.