Chris Lowenstein

In-utero exposure to COVID medical-procedure delay orders raised the likelihood of an adverse birth-outcome diagnosis by 13% (from a 6% baseline) and pushed prenatal care toward telehealth.

Delaying “non-urgent” pregnancy care has real costs.

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📣 📣 Working on exciting research in the area of health, labor markets, and the economy? Send us your abstracts for the 2026 ASHEcon conference by Dec 10! Also seeking abstract reviewers 🙏 More info below ⬇️ . Join us and present your work in Minneapolis!

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

Check out our new 📊 State of Working America Data Library! 📊 It provides easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the US economy 🧵

All the data, none of the confusion💡

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Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023 This cross-sectional study examines trends in mortality rates among adults aged 25 to 44 years across the pre–COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic, and postpandemic periods.

New study with @wrigleyfield.bsky.social & colleagues finds that excess deaths among young U.S. adults have surged since 2011, accelerating during the pandemic and remaining high in 2023. Our research shows that this crisis extends far beyond drug overdoses. 🧵 (1/6)

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Who Would Lose Coverage If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire? The expiration of the pandemic-era enhanced premium tax credits risks leaving 4 million people without health insurance.

From the Urban Institute, interactive state-by-state data on losses in ACA marketplace coverage and increases in the uninsured if the enhanced subsidies are allowed to expire next year. #healthpolicy www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

Map of U.S. SLMs showing multi-county and single-county SLMs

While a MSA or a Commuting Zone might include a dozen counties, the "SLMs" proposed by our @timbartik.bsky.social tend to be slimmer, containing a few counties or just one. The key is how counties respond to job losses and gains in neighboring counties. 📉📈
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Repeal of the Affordable Care Act

Can't believe we're back here, but in case you need a refresher on the damage that might be done to the country if ACA repeal gains steam.

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Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: "How Health Disparities Develop over the Lifecycle"
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/how-health-disparities-develop-over-lifecycle

Thanks, Atheen! Looking forward to seeing your WP and picking your brain more about this sometime soon!

Such an important topic that we as pop health researchers must seriously engage with and think critically about.
Will use this opportunity to plug some of my own work on perceived racial economic threat and suicide (working paper coming soon). Summary slides here, feedback welcome! shorturl.at/1bNu2

Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips.

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Electronic Health Economics Colloquium is a must!