@davidslusky.bsky.social
Professor of Economics and Population Health at the University of Kansas || Executive Director of the American Society of Health Economists || JPAM Co-Editor || NBER Research Associate || IZA Research Fellow
Amazing to have Jevay Grooms @howard.edu in Kansas City for an American Public Square Panel!
International recognition for AJHE! The Australian Business Deans Council Journal Quality List has upgraded AJHE from A to A*. It reflects sustained improvements in quality and impact. Huge credit to @davidslusky.bsky.social and Australia and NZ–based economists, led by Jenny Williams (Melbourne).
What an amazing trip to Michigan! Honored to give a seminar for @smiller.bsky.social & co @Ross School & then @omfleming.bsky.social’s defense @waynestateclas.bsky.social! Great to see @shooshan.bsky.social @neelsukhatme.bsky.social @edwardnorton.bsky.social @helenlevy.bsky.social and so many more!
Anyone from #ASSA2026 in Terminal F? If so let me know!
#ASSA2026 Joseph Bommarito talking about the Care Board Dashboard - www.thecareboard.org
check it out! @mlheggeness.bsky.social ‘s brain child
#ASSA2026 Donna Ginther accepting the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
Under an hour to the #IHEA @ashecon.bsky.social happy hour at the #ASSA2026 @assameeting.bsky.social! All are welcome! Come find me for drink tickets.
Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)
CSWEP News Issue IV, "Focus on Fertility" by @caitlinmyers.bsky.social is out now. www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
Do you have a paper on health insurance policy in the Marketplace, MA, or group markets that you would like to present @ashecon.bsky.social in a panel with @dmaanderson.bsky.social @paulshafer.bsky.social sky.social and me? If so, please shoot me an email or DM!
Anyone manage to download the National Prevailing Wage Center OES wage data from the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (via the FLAG database) before the shutdown?
So honored to be a part of this. Very much hope you will come join us!
Registration is open for the Fifth Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics, which will be held March 18-20, 2026 in Galway at @uniofgalway.bsky.social.
To register, email Ciaran O'Neill at Ciaran.ONeill@qub.ac.uk
More info here:
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
In conversation with Jeffrey Snyder for TheStreet, @davidslusky.bsky.social (University of Kansas) discusses healthcare accessibility challenges for seniors in rural areas. He explains how rideshare could be a partial solution.
Read the full conversation: www.thestreet.com/retirement/i...
The @nationalacademies.org report I’ve been working on for the last 15 months is up at nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2918...
The Int’l Health Econ Assn (IHEA) is searching for a health economics researcher to serve as its next Exec Director
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The Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics @ub.edu @ubeconomics.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social crew (especially @caterina-muratori.bsky.social and @juditvall.bsky.social) really know how to pick a rooftop spot for a department get together! Thanks so much for including me!
Great first day at the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics @ub.edu @ubeconomics.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social. Great to catch up with @caterina-muratori.bsky.social! And looking forward to seeing @juditvall.bsky.social tomorrow!
What a treat to get visit my old grad school friend Jose Azar in Pamplona and give a seminar at the University of Navarra!
Amazing morning at the Nova School of Business & Economics in Portugal. And Edson Servernini happened to be visiting and came to my talk! Huge thank you to Pedro Pita Barros for his hospitality and leadership of the Health Economics Knowledge and Management Center here.
“Birth Center and Maternal and Infant Health” by Helena Roy, @ambarlaforgia.bsky.social, @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social, Helen Kissel, and Petra Persson looks at the growth of births centers and health outcomes in the US
“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
“Pregnancy at 35 and Beyond: Is It Time to Redefine the Geriatric Pregnancy Age” from Devoja Ganguli asks a really fascinating question about the long established idea of when a geriatric pregnancy is.
“The Price of Parenthood: Childcare Costs and Fertility”, which is @abigaildow.bsky.social’s excellent JMP is a really interesting look at the link between childcare and birthrates
Next is “Power to the Platform: Online Dating and Reproductive Health” by @cpdurrance.bsky.social, @mguldi.bsky.social, & @causalinf.bsky.social which looks at the introduction of Craigslist personal ads on fertility
🧵 of my favorite new papers that I saw at #ASHEcon2025
First up is “Stigmas and Social Safety Net Participation” from @kpukelis.bsky.social and Michael Holcomb which finds interesting stigma difference along political lines
Last paper is presented by Zet Wang about the impact of flooding on infant mortality in Bangladesh
Shows this flooding in utero increases infant mortality, an important impact of environment/climate change on health
This paper is nice to illustrate the geographic area FE identification strategy
Next paper is by Padmaja Ayagari showing that later sunset time IMPROVES health in India
Different effects than in high income countries
Very cool and convincing, combines time use surveys and the DHS
