Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Excited to share our new study with Professor @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social, and @reinahuang.bsky.social on Public Payment Mandates & Provider Supply: a look at how Medicaid reimbursement helped bring Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) into mainstream U.S. healthcare 🧵

👉 Full ad here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor! 🚨

Come join us at GSU econ (@gsueconomics.bsky.social)!! We’re an applied, collaborative, and innovative department in the heart of Atlanta. #EconSky

Happy to talk more about our department for anyone considering applying.

Wen Lu (@wenlu33.bsky.social)
designs lab experiments to study how Pigouvian taxes vs. Bayesian persuasion affects decisions in common-pool resource games with risky outside options, bridging theory and evidence on incentives, information, and collective behavior. 🔗 www.wenlu.site

Thomas Kouwe uses statewide admin data from Georgia’s adult education programs to study how classmates influence adult learner attendance—using a novel strategy to address nonrandom assignment.
🔗 sites.google.com/view/thomas-...

Ben Mosier IV uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study individual decision-making and behavior change, with a focus on preventive healthcare and pro-social behavior.
🔗 benmosieriv.com

Christian Saenz (@chrissaenz.bsky.social) is an applied microeconomist with interests in health and public economics. His research examines health and mortality spillovers from risky behaviors in order to inform smarter public health policy. 🔗 ChristianMSaenz.com

Salma Mohammad Ali uses school administrative data to examine spillover effects from students affected by homelessness and explore how experiencing homelessness affects outcomes for students themselves. 🔗 salma-m-ali.github.io

Siru Liu uses lab experiments to study efficiency and justified envy of the deferred acceptance mechanism and the top trading cycle mechanism in school choice context when students can express incomplete preferences.

Federico Corredor's (@fedecorredor.bsky.social) research uses quasi-experimental & structural methods to study tax policy’s distributive effects and behavioral responses to economic development incentives. 🔗 tinyurl.com/fcorredor

Yiwei Duan studies higher ed: (1) How state appropriations in other states drive student migration, and (2) How Adult Ed courses on college campuses influence postsecondary enrollment, using restricted admin data. 🔗 yiweiduan98.github.io

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/

Tejendra Singh's work uses novel data, such as text and satellite data, to generate insights of direct policy relevance. His research agenda examines the role of access to healthcare services and their impact on downstream health outcomes. 🔗 tejendrapsingh.net

Sukriti Beniwal (@beniwalsukriti.bsky.social) studies how healthcare policy & organizational incentives affect provider use, service availability, and patient outcomes, with a focus on maternal health outcomes. 🔗 www.sukritibeniwal.com

Jafar Jafarov (@jafaro0.bsky.social) provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on the consequences of a drug policy that eradicated illicit crops, revealing dynamic shifts in food insecurity that reflect both the vulnerability and resilience of those affected. 🔗 www.jafarov.net

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

👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.

Thrilled to start the fall semester’s seminar series at @gsueconomics.bsky.social 🎉

If you’re in Atlanta and would like to join one of the talks, send me a message!

@wenlu33.bsky.social, @chrissaenz.bsky.social @tejendrapsingh.bsky.social, @jafaro0.bsky.social, @olayusuff.bsky.social

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!

“The Consequences of Federal Abortion Funding Bans” from @mayrapinedat.bsky.social, @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social, and Nikita Dhingra looks at a really understudied form of abortion restrictions

#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!

Honored to receive the Graduate Student Paper Award at #SRSA this year! Grateful for the support of my advisors and mentors, and excited to keep digging into health policy & economics.
@gsueconomics.bsky.social
@lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social

Intensive care supply and admission decisions Over 2005–2019, the number of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) grew by 10%, and the number of NICU beds increased by 30%. This expansion in inten…

Congratulations to our own @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social
for her recent publication in the Journal of Health Economics
along with her coauthors Seth Freedman and Diana R. Jolles!

"Intensive care supply and admission decisions": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Awful timing given the funding meltdown in the USA

IZA shutting down its institute in Bonn

Hoping to maintain the scholar network

www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...

🚨 #EconSky PhD students working in Applied Micro:

Submit your paper for the 4th Workshop, co-organized by @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social, Priya Mukherjee, and me!

Plus, we have two amazing keynotes this year: @econsandy.bsky.social and Rema Hanna.

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.

Submission: Race and Stratification Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

Deadline is soon! The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

We have **two** open endowed chair positions at GSU!! 🎉

Our department is very collegial and everyone works on applied/policy relevant work. It’s a great place to be!

264/ Not a literal starter pack, but @annagoeddeke.bsky.social has assembled a googledoc of starter packs.

bsky.app/profile/anna...

Added!! 😊