Community trust in police fell after the murder of George Floyd, reflected in sharp declines in the ratio of 911 calls to gunshots across several major American cities, from
@ProfDesmondAng
, Panka Bencsik,
@jmb112485
, and
@EDerenoncourt
It's high time to make this Twitter official:
I'm beyond thrilled to share that I'll be joining
@VanderbiltU
in the fall with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society
@MHSVanderbilt
and the Program in Public Policy Studies! 🎉
I am a JMC from the University of Chicago! 👋
I work on applied microeconomics, with a focus on health, public, and crime economics. My research combines causal inference with policy-relevant questions. If you'd like to know more about my work, please do reach out!
Hi
#EconTwitter
, I am a job market candidate!
Let me take a moment to talk about my job market paper, "Policing Substance Use: Chicago's Treatment Program for Narcotics Arrests." (abstract 👇)
Here is what the paper does and why I love this project!🧵1/5
🎉🎉🎉
Happy to announce that the new Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group, which I founded with great colleagues, is now fully official!
If you work on mental health economics, please join us!
#MentalHealthEcon
#EconTwitter
, recommend me advanced Stata (a/syncrounous video) courses/training that would make my workflow smoother!
With no (in person) conferences this term, cleaner code is one of my professional development goals for the fall.
Some exciting news! 🎉
I am absolutely honored to be awarded the Best Health Economics Paper award for my and Ashna Arora’s work on the opioid crisis & how substance use treatment in lieu of prosecution shapes outcomes.
I’m grateful to
@IrishEconAssoc
for this recognition!
#EconTwitter
, recommend me your favorite applied papers with diff-in-diffs with staggered treatment times.
Bonus points for highly staggered, say above 10+ treatment start times.
Thank you.
#Econtwitter
, with conference and travel cancellations a lot of research connections don't get to be made.
Let's have a list of economists who'd grab coffee w/ econ colleagues visiting their city (once things are back to normal)! Join here +a thread on why
Just sent out an update to everyone on
#EconBrew
(the list of economists happy to grab coffee with visitors to their city post-pandemic).
Will also add quietly how happy I am of a major milestone the initiative reached: There are now 150(!!) economists on the list! 🗺️
Was hesitant if to share this, with so much heaviness around us these days. But maybe a moment of joy is a good thing:
Today I was awarded an
@ashecon
Diversity Scholarship.
I’m excited to take (a small) part in moving our profession towards diverse representations.
Two bright spots in an otherwise bleak day:
1. Congrats
@PankaBencsik
for receiving an
@ashecon
Diversity Scholarship!
2. Thank you
@EmilyNix100
for organizing virtual co-working sessions during this unprecedented time!
Grateful to know such encouraging and brilliant folks!
I have a new publication out in
@JHealthEcon
!
We explore intergenerational transmissions with a focus on mental health. Upshot: It matters more than physical health does! (thread by
@timhalliday7
⬇)
This project has been a great journey, and I'm so glad it found a great home.
New publication in the
@JHealthEcon
w/
@PankaBencsik
@BhashMazumder
The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the UK
We estimate IG correlations in the UK. We focus on the interplay between mental and physical health
1/N
I’m back in the Loop today and thrilled to be spending some time at the
@ChicagoFed
as a Visiting Scholar for 2023-2024! Looking forward to the great conversations.
Vanderbilt health crew* on the way to
@nberpubs
!
Looking forward to some great papers tomorrow & Friday + seeing lots of folks again!
*This is not even all of us!
@MarcusDillender
&
@JoshMartinEcon
are already there and Kitt Carpenter &
@katherinejwen
boarded too fast for a pic
⚠️Grant alert for grad students ⚠️
Grad students collecting online data in 2021-22, this grant is providing free data collection tools and a stipend:
Open globally.
New working paper with
@ProfDesmondAng
,
@jmb112485
, and
@EDerenoncourt
: "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement." We use a measure of *actual crime* (gunshots detected) and 911 calls to identify how civilians change behavior.
How does police violence affect public cooperation w/ law enforcement? In a new WP w/
@pankabencsik
@jmb112485
@ederenoncourt
, we find large declines in crime-reporting after the murder of George Floyd. Across 8 cities, 911 calls per gunshot drop by 50% & total calls by 25%. 1/5
This is a shout out to
@KelliMarquardt
who organizes the most fun health econ seminar series at the
@ChicagoFed
. We had Hannes Schwandt give an awesome talk today followed by happy hour. Thanks for pulling the local health econ community together, Kelli!
Just got a direct message, someone letting me know they made a new econ friend through my
#EconBrew
list. Absolutely making my day to connect fellow researchers.
If you'd also like to meet new colleagues, check out the over 250(!) economists happy to chat
Hi
#econtwitter
! Working on a mental health paper and hoping to present it at
@ashecon
or
@EuHEA
2020? Join our
@healtheconomics
Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group (MHE SIG)'s initiative to increase organized sessions on mental health econ at various conferences via
#EconBrew
is live! Check out this growing list of academic economists looking forward to grabbing coffee with colleagues visiting their city post-pandemic! Let's make up for what we lose without conferences.
We have 19 US states + 13 countries already!
Look who is on the cover of today’s
@VanderbiltU
news—along with econ/policy friends
@katherinejwen
and
@MemeMedianMode
.
So happy to have arrived to Nashville and got to kick off the semester!
Much looking forward to presenting my job market paper today in a dedicated SEA Presidential Session.
Papers are looking at the intersection of mental health and the criminal justice system, session chaired by
@causalinf
.
Catch us at 4 pm in Tanglewood!
A beautiful last day of classes here at
@VanderbiltU
!
Said goodbye to my seniors, for whom today’s was their very last class of their undergrad career! So proud of them. 🥲
Hi JMCs of
#econtwitter
! Have you accepted a position at a Chicago university and moving here in the summer? Reach out, I’d love to share what I know about moving to this awesome city and all the research related stuff going on!
I moved enough, would be happy to help others!
Headed to the Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics—but first, spending the weekend exploring this epic country.
Today, biking on the Aran Islands, complete with a seal watching stop! 🚴
It is rugged and beautiful here!
Welcome to Academic
#TechToolsThursday
(which I just made up)!
#EconTwitter
I'm here to share what I've learnt on how to cite easily in Overleaf with sensible \cite{} keys and without ever again having export and import citation libraries. Steps below (10 minute setup time):
Currently at
#iHEA2019
and interested in mental health? Join me this afternoon and connect with colleagues in an exploratory meeting to set up a Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group (SIG).
@healtheconomics
#mentalhealth
#econtwitter
🚨🚨
My new
@iza_bonn
WP with
@timhalliday7
and
@BhashMazumder
is out today!
We estimate the intergenerational persistence of health, with a particular focus on taking apart physical and mental health.
Upshot: Parental mental health matters more!
🧵👇
If you work on mental health economics then this call is for you!
Our Special Interest Group is aiming to increase the presence of complete sessions on the topic at conferences, and we currently have abstract submissions open:
📣We are helping to facilitate submissions of organized sessions on mental health econ for the iHEA 2021 online conference! Abstract submissions to us close *9 Nov*. If you are a SIG member send them to john.cullinan
@nuigalway
.ie! If you’re not a SIG member, see pinned post first
My first publication in a national media outlet *in print*!
I and Ashna Arora (co-author extraordinaire🎉from
@UChiUrbanLabs
) wrote a piece on the US's changing criminal justice responses to illicit drug use and it's out in the
@chicagotribune
today!
💻:
#EconBrew
(the list of academic economists ready to grab coffee with local visitors post-pandemic) is growing! In just four weeks since inception, there are now 100+(!!) economists on the list from 24 US states and 24 countries worldwide. Check it out!
At O’Hare, on my way to the Southerns. Can’t wait to see EconTwitter friends, and crime friends, and health friends, and friends from many other fields.
If you see me, please say hi! I missed this crowd!
Want to browse upcoming econ online seminars
*by presentation title*
instead of just the streams that are out there? Now you can:
It's a great way to find relevant papers without signing up to a million series.
(Thanks for the tip,
@C__Kronenberg
!)
Thank you, Jen, for highlighting
#EconBrew
!
EconBrew is a list of economists happy to get coffee with visitors to their city post-pandemic or with people based anywhere via Zoom now! If you'd like to join, sign up here:
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Fascinating new wp in this week's NBER bulletin on how war affects those < 5 when experiencing it in their elderly years. Work by
@MevludeAkbulut
,
@Erdal_Tekin_
, and
@belgi_turan
. They document very substantial effects and explore various mechanisms. Recommended read!
Work-life balance on the job market means fostering these two adorable purr machines. I love having them snooze next to me on the chair.
Ps.: They'll be available for adoption through Chicago's Anticruelty Society starting next week.
Honored and thankful to receive
@UpjohnInstitute
's grant support today!
Myself and co-authors,
@NourARazzak
, Ashna Arora, and Omair Gill are thrilled that this funding will enable us to dig deeper into the impact of easing call/video costs in prisons.
I decided to up my office snack game for the first week of teaching, which is very much coming up.
Behold a collection of ~$0.50-1 delicious little cheeses from Whole Foods, perfectly snack sized and faaancy at once! 🧀
Academic year, I’m ready!
Had the best time having
@smilleralert
visit us for a seminar yesterday!
Incredibly interesting project on cash transfers—and very fun dinner conversation over great food at a favorite Nashville restaurant.
When I decided to found this research hub dedicated to mental health economics one of my biggest goals was increasing the visibility of the field through dedicated sessions at conferences.
Today is a great step in that direction. My co-conveners and I are very happy! 👇
Exciting news 🎉 Two sessions facilitated by our Special Interest Group have just been accepted for
#iHEA2021
@healtheconomics
. Watch out for “Expansions in Mental Healthcare” and “Measurement and Modeling in Mental Health Assessment and Policy” once the program goes live!
A hallway chat with
@analisapackham
made me think to share more broadly the super easy, yet effective (I think) method I use to track all the things I do *with an eye towards an ultimate tenure packet.*
This is it!⬇️
A simple xls spreadsheet, but it has some nifty details...
1/4
When you ask a question on econtwitter and someone shows up within the hour providing you a detailed solution AND creating a public .do file so now everybody else has this resource too. Wow wow wow! 😲
Check out Victoria’s amazing code for creating event study graphs! 👇
Hey stata folks: this is a short thread on event study graphs using regsave and blindschemes packages.
I replicate figures 2 and 3 from Gallagher (2014, AER: Applied) using his replication files. Links to all references in last tweet.
#EconTwitter
[1/6]
#EconTwitter
, what's your favorite method of compiling (summaries of) relevant papers for a project?
I started an Excel with author/year/journal/abstract/notes columns, but it's getting unwieldy with abstracts making huge cells.
Do I just go back to a running Word doc? 😱
Mental health economists in low and middle income countries! We (the
@healtheconomics
Mental Health Econ Special Interest Group) would love to connect and share academic opportunities.
Feel free to reach out here or over email!
🚨🚨
I am extremely thrilled to be quoted in the Mayor's Office of Chicago's press release, out today!
The presser announces a large expansion to the city's Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program—my job market paper.
This expansion is a result of... (1/3)
Had the most fun hosting a few Chicago economist friends for a backyard pumpkin carving yesterday. We had UChicago, UIC, Northwestern, and the Fed all represented!
Kelli was *clearly* the uncontested winner of the most economics-y pumpkin! 🎃👇
One of the unexpected moments of solace in this never-ending WFH has been the newfound time to read. I just finished my 32nd book of the year and I love how many lives I got to live while keep everyone safe and doing it all from my couch.
I’m so used to online conferences that this morning I specifically picked out and put on my favorite lipstick, only for it to dawn on me ten minutes later that I’ll be masked all day. 🤦♀️
Anyway, I’m stylish under my mask now.
Had the most wonderful time visiting Vanderbilt yesterday and presenting my job market paper!
Thank you for the fantastic chats everyone, and for the invitation,
#KittCarpenter
!
I’m not flying for Thanksgiving and still get to enjoy some Biscoff. A true win-win. 😄
@VanderbiltU
bringing its snack A game in the shared departmental kitchen currently.
Good morning, Chicago!
So good to be back and getting to spend a few days with brilliant colleagues at the
@ChicagoFed
, and then at the
@BeckerFriedman
Institute’s Health Economics Initiative conference.
The beautiful city lights on my walk just served as icing on the cake! 🏙️
Full room with 25+ participants and a very lively discussion at the Exploratory Meeting of the Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group (SIG) at
#iHEA2019
@healtheconomics
. We agreed that we've got to do this!
I've never before worked on a project where the results are this.... lukewarm. Both regressions and graphs say the results are maaaybe significant. Or maybe nothing is there. Send help. I've gotta learn when to pull the plug.
This morning a *baby Hawaiian monk seal* was born on the beach right in front of the conference hotel! 🦭 🌅
@Erdal_Tekin_
and
@timhalliday7
really know how to make a workshop special!
#RiskyBehaviors2022
(photos from yesterday when the mom was very pregnant)
Hi
#EconTwitter
,
Big
#EconBrew
announcement today! 🎉🎉
After running this service for over three years, the time has come for me to pass the baton. Starting today, the fantastic
@Laura_Nettuno
(health and labor econ) is the owner of
#EconBrew
!
1/2
In a great
#ASSA2023
session on policymaker decision making—which matters so much to those of us cheering on evidence based policy.
@evavivalt
’s takeaways from data from World Bank workshops:
(a) policymakers overly optimistically update beliefs
(b) s.e. is hard to understand
Mental health economics researchers!
#iHEA2021
(online) conference is starting in one hour, and my Special Interest Group and I worked tirelessly to put together a super exciting line up of sessions on the topic of mental health economics!
Please join us! Schedule below👇
Our Mental Health Econ SIG is very well represented at
#iHEA2021
! Please join us on 12-14 July at the 5 mental health econ sessions & the social hour we are hosting for our SIG. See schedule below (times in GMT, sessions in blue). Details & links for each session in subtweets👇
It is wonderful to close out the last three weeks of jet setting (🛫 Chicago 🛫 Ireland 🛫 Boston) with a presentation at
@nberpubs
!
Huge thanks to
@jevaygrooms
and Hannes Schwandt for creating such a fantastic day, I’ve learnt so much from colleagues’ work today!
Panka Bencsik
@VanderbiltEcon
present coauthored work w/ Ashna Arora entitled “Drug Arrest Diversion” In the paper authors explore a drug diversion program in Chicago and show it helps Black Chicagoans gain access to SUD treatment.
#NBER
Working on a paper on mental health economics?
Submit the abstract to our group! We are submitting full organized sessions on the topic for next year's (online) iHEA conference.
Details below 👇
My working paper studying the criminal justice impact of the country's largest drug diversion program was on 📺Chicago Tonight📺 !
Catch my fantastic co-author, Ashna Arora (
@UChicago
@UChiUrbanLabs
) at 1:55 ➡️
Talking about diversity in economics:
A simple (dare I say, easy) step is all of us voting in the various professional association elections.
It's no magic bullet. But just in the past few months having voted at
@ashecon
,
@RoyalEconSoc
, and
@AleaDiversity
, I'm very glad I did.
#EconTwitter
, if you work on the research topic, please consider joining the special interest group I founded—with brilliant co-conveners—on the economics of mental health.
Our most recently established Special Interest Group is the Mental Health Economics (MHE) SIG. Membership is open to all iHEA members interested in mental health economics/mental health care. You can learn more about the SIG and how to join, online here:
Extra festive
@nberpubs
Health Program dinner, topped off with the Sonesta’s seasonal “autumn cosmo.”
Thanks to
@ajhollingsworth
for treating the table!
Chicago's Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program
- connects individuals with substance use disorders with treatment
- improves public safety, and
- reduces the reach of the criminal justice system + its associated costs
Now that we're all back home from
#SEA2021
, I'd like to give a huge shout out to
@brittanyrstreet
, who singlehandedly chaired three econ of crime sessions (also organizing two of those!) as well as arranging social activities for crime econ folks.
What a service to the field! 👏
Using some time on this first proper workday of the year to identify what exact, broken down steps I will take for each of my projects in the coming two months to bring them closer to becoming a wp/publication.
Planning to use it as a reminder for where to put my time and energy.
🚨🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨🚨
My incredible coauthor
@pankabencsik
recently posted her job market paper! If you are interested in the trade-offs between harsh criminal sanctions and addiction treatment in the context of the opioid crisis, then join me in this thread:
1/n
Hivemind, please recommend me applied micro papers that use Google Trends data.
I'd love to see how they dealt with the issue of comparing search terms in popularity when everything is benchmarked to peak search = 100.
Thanks,
#EconTwitter
!
My good fortune brought me back to Ireland swiftly, for another conference.
Being so north in the summer is incredible. This pic captures what the light looks like at 10 pm(!)—the sun has only recently sat over the Atlantic + you can still easily see the islands off the coast.🌊
We are seeking applicants for a postdoctoral position in economics under the supervision of Prof. Martina Viarengo from 1st Sept 2020.
Apply by 31st May with CV, cover letter and research paper at martina.viarengo
@graduateinstitute
.ch.
@nccr_onthemove
It's cold & rainy in Austin today, so I'm looking ahead to
#ASSA2020
in sunny San Diego!
Crime folks, mark your calendars for two (informal) crime research lunches! Co-hosted w
@PankaBencsik
.
No RSVP required -- show up, order at the counter, & join our table. Details follow.
Currently watching a live (Zoom) talk on a particular US agency's criminal justice open data while downloading and exploring said data at the same time. Peak Tuesday night.
Very much looking forward to giving an invited seminar at San Jose State University later this week!
Thank you for reading my job market paper in advance, Darwyyn!
Today's job market prep activity on my calendar is editing my diversity statement.
Then I get a reminder that
@pam_meyerhofer
's
#econ_prosem
is discussing diversity statements this very afternoon with
@ShellyJLundberg
. How perfect!
Cc JMCs, Pamela's series is an awesome resource
Looking forward to a fun day!
This afternoon I’m presenting my jmp at the Chicago Fed! (thank you for having me,
@BhashMazumder
&
@KelliMarquardt
)
Then, I’m hopping over to a happy hour with crime econ friends hosted by
@jenniferdoleac
. What a perfect end to a very busy week!
Come work at Crime Lab! It is a wonderfully supportive and collaborative environment with lots of super interesting, policy-relevant projects!
This is a junior market hire, so all current ABDs welcome!
If you have questions about this role, feel free to reach out to me!
The University of Chicago Crime Lab is in the market for a new Research Director! This would be an ideal job for someone who will finish their PhD in Spring 2022. As a Crime Lab alumnus, I could not recommend this job more highly. Short thread 👇
We truly have a crowd of health folks at
@VanderbiltU
!
This is us, gathered for a very fun social under the umbrella of the Vanderbilt Center for Research on Inequality & Health. Go team! 🥌
Stata folks: I want to make this graph. 👇
But when I reghdfe and then
coefplot, keep(yminus12-yminus2 y0-y12)
I obviously miss plotting a point on zero with sd=0 for t-1. How do I add that point?
The internet left me without answers. Or I didn't know how to ask it.