Lilly Springer

@springerecon.bsky.social

Incoming Assistant Professor at American University Health | Family | Labor she/her lillyspringer.com

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

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🚨For the past two years, we have worked feverously to create a solid set of starter statistics on the economics of care. I couldn’t be prouder of what our small but mighty team has created for y’all. Check it out below, download data, and follow us @thecareboard.bsky.social! 🚨

The Care Board

The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

thecareboard.org

Getting ready to update the syllabus for my undergrad health economics course for the spring What are the papers that make you excited to be a health economist/do health econ research? Looking for any/all topic areas!