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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 2h

Really proud of our team, disseminating findings on (1) the IGNITE study of concentrated investment in low-income neighborhoods (which is nearing completion) + (2) work on the drivers of life expectancy trends in the US (w/ @wrigleyfield.bsky.social @rourkeobrien.bsky.social @astokespop.bsky.social)

Opportunity for Health @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social · 3h

It was exciting to see OfH Lab members sharing their work at this week’s CHIBE Retreat! @pennchibe.bsky.social

Our PM Hilu presented qualitative findings from the IGNITE study, and pre-doc Ritikaa presented on “Understanding the recent decline in US life expectancy” during the poster session. 👏🏼

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NBER @nber.org · 7h

A North Carolina police alternatives program diverts nonviolent 911 calls to civilians, reducing criminalization and increasing community engagement, with evidence of fiscal sustainability, from Bocar A. Ba, Patton Chen, Tony Cheng, Martha C. Eies, and Justin E. Holz www.nber.org/papers/w34344

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 7h

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Uganda, the use of permethrin-treated baby wraps significantly reduced the incidence of clinical malaria among young children. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4msFwwX

#MedSky #PedSky #IDSky

The New England Journal of Medicine
Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria
A Research Summary based on Boyce RM et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2501628 | Published on September 24, 2025

Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned.

Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

This is a remarkable portrait of how one can dive into life despite physical fragility, or because of it.

Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH @joefigs.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to put into words how inspiring Dr. Sue Goldie is.

An extraordinary teacher, researcher, leader, and mentor to so many of us @hsph.harvard.edu who now shares her deeply personal story fighting against Parkinson’s disease.

Her story in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease

An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?

www.nytimes.com

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 1d

Really elegant. I was just on service and we were working through a hyponatremia case. Wish I phoned you in to deliver this nugget.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Through segregation, violence, redlining, and sundown towns, Black families traveled. How did they know where to go? What places were safe? What places were welcoming? Search the data on this important part of American history: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
#EconSky

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 1d

I hope people find this generative.

There are a lot of policy effects that are larger and quicker than what we would expect (based on what the policy actually does).

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 5d

What is the sports equivalent of this?

Ohtani to the Dodgers?

Did MIT get draft picks?

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not sure on the first two.

More generally it just seems like doing this research is a luxury of sorts. I've been working on questions that relate to things I see in clinic for years and I'm on service right now and everything seems much much worse. So what impact am I really having?

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 6d

I've made a research career out of pointing out problems.

Sometimes this research tells us something new about society (and thats good). Sometimes not (and that's mostly useless).

I've offered few solutions.

I like maybe 1 out of 4 papers I've written.

What is the point of all this work?

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

Elizabeth - you are the best.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 8d

New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths

Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.

www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 8d

Is there a tool to assess risk of bias that economists commonly use or like?

Most tools I've seen seem to be built around medical studies (whether experimental or quasi-experimental). Some elements seem relevant but many others less so.

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

I am currently living this reality on three different papers, one of which is 15 years old.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 8d

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 8d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

For you, I will stay

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

I did a five month experiment where I signed off all social media. I felt smarter + less angry and distracted.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 8d

A thought I keep having: what if I just log off all social media and subscribe to a few paper magazines and newspapers instead

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · 8d

This @pennldi.bsky.social post discusses recent Op-Ed: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

↪️ Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health in @NEJM.org
doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...

by PARC Research Associate Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social

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PennMedCSO (@pennmedcso.bsky.social)

In @nejm.org, Atheendar Venkataramani (@pennmehp.bsky.social) & co discuss how public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of…

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 9d

Today's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the discoverers of regulatory T-cells. How could this discovery about our immune systems change the world?

Here is one possible way: leading to treatments for terrible neurological diseases. (1/3)

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for all these tips!! I like the manual car analogy

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

Oh that's awesome! Thanks for the tip!!

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

That's true. I left X some months ago because no one saw or engaged with my tweets. And it got weird.

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 8d

Why do people think this website is good? No one is engaging. There is little discussion. It's just all of us saying stuff in parallel.

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 11d

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

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