David Bradford

Man!! I am sorry to have missed this! I hope everyone at IHEA is enjoying Bali!

A new paper by Prof. Churchill at American University highlights the impact that age-within-grade has on the body perceptions of young students. Read more about it in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand) People are sometimes forced to move, and it is plausible that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that m...

Health Economics (Early View): A new study examining the impact of forced relocation on mental health found that it individuals who moved were more likely to seek out mental health treatment more often than individuals who were stationary. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Decomposing Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity Within Insurance Groups Rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) are related to maternal, hospital, and residential factors, but the contribution of these factors to racial disparities in SMM within Medicaid and private ins...

Health Economics (Early View): A fascinating new paper dissects the potential causes of racial disparities in maternal morbidities in Georgia. Read more about how race can impact healthcare outcomes here.
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A new paper from several professors at Lund University highlights the impact that compulsory grading policies have on adolescent mental health- and the heightened impact it has on girls. Read more in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A fascinating new paper in Health Economics highlights the positive impact of walkability on mental health during COVID-19. Read the article here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I’m sick of trivializing the human rights abomination that DeSantis and Trump have built with that stupid “Aligator Alcatraz” title. If we’re going to give it a nickname, let’s be more accurate. It’s “Alligator Auschwitz” or “American Auschwitz” if anything.

On Pivotal Day for His Bill, Trump Leaves Washington for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

“Arbeit Macht Frei”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

It's not my university, and not my job, but if it were, I would fight like hell to stay in place in the face of this intolerable intrusion into academic freedom by our tyrannical president. You have to consider the next 200 years, not just 200 days.

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The conference consists of overviews of major research areas by top experts in those fields plus professional development sessions.

Faculty include: @michelebelot.bsky.social @bradfowd1.bsky.social , R Conti, E Doherty, D Grabowski, @johnmullahy.bsky.social @justinsydnor.bsky.social , R Thornton

WTF is a "sky tracker"??? Does Trump mean radar, or is this some weird-ass SciFi fantasy?

NPR is bringing the spice to their coverage of the military parade and protests yesterday, especially with their pictures: showing no crowd at the parade, massive crowds at the protests, and this one - boredom, disgust, sleeping Melania, and a perfect typo in the caption!

Right. That’s a great turnout and I’m thrilled to see it. But the estimates just before midnight on Saturday are there were between 5 and 8 million nationwide. There’s no way 1/5 to 1/8 of all protesters were in Boston.

We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.

What did you expect? The @washingtonpost.com is a bunch of Quisling fascist shills.

“Millions” gathered - ~ 8 million - to protest you absolute Quisling f#ckwads!! Hey @wapostopinionsplus.bsky.social , if you can’t do any better than that just admit you’re collaborating fascist enthusiasts and start printing the horoscope above the fold. That’s all the integrity you have left.

The deadline for submitting an abstract to the Southeastern Health Economics Symposium 2025 to be held in Chapel Hill is tomorrow. Don’t miss out! Submit today! 👇🏻

gilleskie.web.unc.edu/shesg-2025/

TACO

Don’t forget to submit your SHESG abstract(s) this week! The deadline is almost here. You don’t want to miss out on great papers in Chapel Hill in the fall. That’s too much FOMO bear!

gilleskie.web.unc.edu/shesg-2025/

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Today is D-Day, the annual commemoration of a day when America, Britain, and Canada banded together to launch a fight to rid Europe of fascism.

Today, we must fight to rid America of its fascist MAGA leadership. We must not prove unworthy of the sacrifices those men made in 1944.

Amazing to see #iHEA adding their words of support to our joint statement!

Thank you to IHEA for joining with the health economics journal editorial boards in defending academic freedom and editorial independence. The IHEA May Newsletter has both their endorsement and our original statement: healtheconomics.org/wp-content/u...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

You know, I include an AI exercise in all my writing assignments so students learn that even the best LLMs will provide very plausible sounding citations that are completely made up. Looks like RFK Jr should have taken my class.

Oh yeah, and … THIS is how we make health policy now?? 🤬

Trump rejects claim he's 'chickening out' on tariffs just because he keeps changing rates President Donald Trump wants the world to know he’s no “chicken” just because he’s repeatedly backed off high tariff threats.

Can somebody please make blue TACO hats??

Friday's EU tariff announcement lasted nearly the whole weekend, or 18% of a Scaramucci.

The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

Important affirmation of Health Economics journals to the principles of rigorous, open, and inclusive scientific inquiry.

Statement of Principles from the Editorial Boards of Leading Health Economics Journals #healtheconomics

Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection 30 Pages Posted: 19 May 2025 Simon Quach University of Southern California Zhengyi Yu University of Southern California - Department of Economics Date Written: May 15, 2025 Abstract This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a differencein-differences approach, we compare faculty outcomes in Florida to nearby states. We find the policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers-indicating a brain drain rather than improved selection. Additionally, we detect no productivity gains among incumbents and observe a decline in the research output of new hires. Overall, the findings suggest that reducing tenure protections negatively affects the research capacity and competitiveness of public universities.

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