Atheendar Venkataramani
@atheendar.bsky.social
Physician and health economist.
@oppforhealthlab.bsky.social
@oppforhealthlab.bsky.social
The failure to fund SNAP -- and to find ways to actively NOT do that -- is the most deeply cynical and cruel thing I've seen our government do in my lifetime.
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The failure to fund SNAP -- and to find ways to actively NOT do that -- is the most deeply cynical and cruel thing I've seen our government do in my lifetime.
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🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality
Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE.
The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
forms.gle
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
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Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual
We develop a step-by-step guide to leniency (a.k.a. judge or examiner instrument) designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures. The unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator (UJIVE) is...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
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Update: today, 16.8 million people should have *full* SNAP benefits for November. They don't.
Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day.
This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth.
🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky
Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day.
This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth.
🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Update: today, 16.8 million people should have *full* SNAP benefits for November. They don't.
Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day.
This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth.
🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky
Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day.
This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth.
🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky
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1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
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November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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wild set of results from @atheendar.bsky.social
The 1975 Voting Rights Act extension lowered mortality for most nonwhite groups but raised it for white adults and older nonwhite men, patterns consistent with status threat, from Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, and Christopher A. Lowenstein www.nber.org/papers/w34421
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
wild set of results from @atheendar.bsky.social
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The 1975 Voting Rights Act extension lowered mortality for most nonwhite groups but raised it for white adults and older nonwhite men, patterns consistent with status threat, from Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, and Christopher A. Lowenstein www.nber.org/papers/w34421
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The 1975 Voting Rights Act extension lowered mortality for most nonwhite groups but raised it for white adults and older nonwhite men, patterns consistent with status threat, from Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, and Christopher A. Lowenstein www.nber.org/papers/w34421
1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
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Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
I've learned so much working with George. He is so creative and committed to improving the economic security of patients of all ages. Awesome to see this
Congratulations to George Dalembert (@childrensphila.bsky.social/ @pennmedicine.bsky.social), recipient of the Duncan Van Dusen Professionalism Award for Faculty! Learn more about Dr. Dalembert & his work here➡️ tinyurl.com/4rybukus #PSOMAOE @chopresearch.bsky.social @pennldi.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I've learned so much working with George. He is so creative and committed to improving the economic security of patients of all ages. Awesome to see this
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Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
I'm writing a book on this and why I think it's happening. Here are some forces at play that may explain our poor performance with life expectancy since the 1980s.
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm writing a book on this and why I think it's happening. Here are some forces at play that may explain our poor performance with life expectancy since the 1980s.
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There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.
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Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407
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The people who need SNAP assistance come from varying circumstances. I spoke with a woman in rural Idaho who needed food stamps after her partner died by suicide when she was 11 weeks pregnant.
And some have pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes — which requires a strict diet to control.
And some have pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes — which requires a strict diet to control.
Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows
Without action from Congress before Saturday, millions nationwide will be cut off from access to government food assistance, including those who are pregnant or have babies and young children.That pos...
www.newsfromthestates.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The people who need SNAP assistance come from varying circumstances. I spoke with a woman in rural Idaho who needed food stamps after her partner died by suicide when she was 11 weeks pregnant.
And some have pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes — which requires a strict diet to control.
And some have pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes — which requires a strict diet to control.
Working with sociologists @courtneyboen.bsky.social and @rourkeobrien.bsky.social has been a game-changer for me.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Working with sociologists @courtneyboen.bsky.social and @rourkeobrien.bsky.social has been a game-changer for me.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
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Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996
Hard agree. People only are interested in the take-down. Even when those are published no one really reads the reply.
“I think that we won't get replication studies in biosciences unless they are explicitly incentivised - and judged on their methodological quality rather than their results.”
New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Hard agree. People only are interested in the take-down. Even when those are published no one really reads the reply.
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Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
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"We conducted a host of sensitivity analyses and found our model was robust to a variety of assumptions and alternative specifications."
Translation: "I released my imposter syndrome from its mental prison, dialed up my anxiety to max and imagined the ways I could be made to look like a fraud"
Translation: "I released my imposter syndrome from its mental prison, dialed up my anxiety to max and imagined the ways I could be made to look like a fraud"
October 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"We conducted a host of sensitivity analyses and found our model was robust to a variety of assumptions and alternative specifications."
Translation: "I released my imposter syndrome from its mental prison, dialed up my anxiety to max and imagined the ways I could be made to look like a fraud"
Translation: "I released my imposter syndrome from its mental prison, dialed up my anxiety to max and imagined the ways I could be made to look like a fraud"
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Examining the causal effects of cellphone bans in Florida on student test scores, suspensions, and absences, from David N. Figlio and Umut Özek www.nber.org/papers/w34388
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Examining the causal effects of cellphone bans in Florida on student test scores, suspensions, and absences, from David N. Figlio and Umut Özek www.nber.org/papers/w34388
Qualitative evidence of the impact of #malaria eradication in the U.S. on worker productivity, from a 1916 study:
www.jstor.org/stable/45733...
www.jstor.org/stable/45733...
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Qualitative evidence of the impact of #malaria eradication in the U.S. on worker productivity, from a 1916 study:
www.jstor.org/stable/45733...
www.jstor.org/stable/45733...
This 1962 classic on #health as #human capital by Selma Mushkin in the JPE -- preceding the Grossman JPE paper by 10 years -- is a criminally underrated classic:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This 1962 classic on #health as #human capital by Selma Mushkin in the JPE -- preceding the Grossman JPE paper by 10 years -- is a criminally underrated classic:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...