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An Interview With A. Dexter Samuels and Guy David About the New...
By: David SluskyDr. David Slusky: What was the impetus behind starting this new joined Meharry-Wharton program?Dr. A. Dexter Samuels: When two institutions with legacies like Meharry Medical...
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An Interview With Participants From the Mentoring Workshop for Women and...
By: Angélica Meinhofer Dr. Angélica MeinhoferDr. Maya Rossin SlaterDr. Jennifer Doleac According to the 2019 Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), women...
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How to Decide if a Post-doc is Right for You?
By: Jevay Grooms Dr. Jevay GroomsDr. Salama Freed Nearly ten years ago, when I began a doctoral program, the concept of a post-doctoral fellowship seemed like something “economists” did not...
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Brief Updates
2020 ASHEcon Virtual Mentoring Program By: Ellen MearaWith so much distance from each other in 2020, early career health economists face steep challenges to networking with colleagues outside their...
View ArticleNominations for ASHEcon Board of Directors
Have you ever considered being more involved in ASHEcon? The ASHEcon Nominating Committee is soliciting its members for nominations to the ASHEcon Board for the positions of ASHEcon President-elect...
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Managing References for Research
By: Alex Hollingsworth(This is Part 2. You can read part 1 about making a job market website here.)When I was a student I was always shocked at how long it took to create a formatted bibliography...
View ArticleSubmit a Nomination for an ASHEcon Award
Nominate an outstanding peer, colleague, or student! The awards highlight both burgeoning and established leaders in the health economics field and will be given at the ASHEcon Conference in June...
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Data Resources on Health Care Encounter Data
By: Alice Chen, Michael Richards, and Kosali Simon We provide an overview of some commonly-used data sources for research using health care encounter data. We introduce these data sources, identify...
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Professional Development Opportunities for Graduate Students in Health Economics
By: Anne Burton It’s common knowledge that writing a good job market paper is crucial for success on the job market, but that’s not all you need. How else can you distinguish yourself on the job...
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Measuring Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment During COVID-19
By: Lindsey Rose Bullinger The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed all aspects of home and family life in the past several months. Severe and sudden unemployment, school closures, and...
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How to encourage vaccination?
By: Marcella Alsan and Sarah Eichmeyer. Marcella is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, marcella_alsan@hks.harvard.edu. Sarah is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the...
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ASHEcon Virtual Mentoring Program
By Melinda Pitts, Research Center Director, Center for Human Capital Studies, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta One of the benefits of attending a conference in person is that the side conversations can...
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Interview with Fanta Traore, one of the Founders of the Sadie Collective
Sadie Alexander is the first African-American to be awarded a Ph.D. in Economics in 1921 at the University of Pennsylvania. She is well known for being the first President of Delta Sigma Theta,...
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Interview with President-elect David Cutler
We sat down with President Elect David Cutler to talk about the upcoming 2021 ASHEcon conference. Reminder that the conference will be held virtually from June 21-23, 2021 via zoom. The virtual...
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The Role of Health Economics Research in Informing an Effective Response to...
By Angélica Meinhofer Climate change is one of America’s most significant long-term policy challenges. The use of fossil fuels, deforestation, livestock production, industrial processes, pollution,...
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Trends in Job Postings for Health Economists
By Anne M. Burton It’s that time of year where the job market is in full swing, and job market candidates and departments are busy with flyouts and hiring decisions. Anecdotes about how the market...
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ASHEcon Session at the AEA’s ASSA 2022 Meetings
By Sebastian Tello-Trillo Our current president, Kate Bundorf, hosted the ASHEcon-sponsored session at this past ASSA meeting. The session occurred on Friday, January 7th. Four papers were presented...
View ArticleInterview with the New ASHEcon Executive Director
By Sebastian Tello-Trillo As you may have read in the latest ASHEcon email, David Slusky has been announced as the next Executive Director for ASHEcon. In this article, we sat down with David to get...
View ArticleThe Frontier of Sociogenetics Research, An Interview with Jason Fletcher
By Kosali Simon Kosali: Jason, we hear a lot these days about genetics-based health research—can you define this field and tell us how social science/economics contributes to it? Jason: While medical...
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Catalyzing the Future of Medicaid Research: The T-MSIS Analytic Files
By William L. Schpero Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College, Cornell University The...
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