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Laura Dague
@lauradague.bsky.social
Health Economist at Texas A&M University
James M. Griffin Professor of Health Policy
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🚨NEW RESULTS 🚨
🧵1/4 J-PAL affiliated professors Rebecca Myerson & @lauradague.bsky.social, & Allison Espeseth from @coveringwi evaluated the impact of outreach and assistance from health insurance navigators on #Medicaid renewal. Results below 👇
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Dan Sacks and I are looking for a postdoc to work on Medicaid evaluation projects at UW-IRP. See posting: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-... . Email your resume and cover letter to Tim Connor at tim.connor@wisc.edu.
For any questions regarding the position, please contact Dan Sacks at dan.sacks@wisc.edu
Postdoc, Postgrad, and Research Intern Vacancies
Browse Postoc and Research Intern vacancies at UW–Madison.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Important findings on administrative burdens and Medicaid by Rebecca Myerson, Allison Espeseth, and Laura Dague @lauradague.bsky.social

www.nber.org/papers/w34191
Navigating Medicaid: Experimental Evidence on Administrative Burden and Coverage Loss
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
September 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Property tax protest season in Texas! Does anyone know why sales data are not public? Impossible to generate comps for my own purposes and for the appraisers whose valuations are evidently based on very thin data
May 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Did you know that PRAMS is still not collecting data at all right now? That means a permanent disruption to monitoring - a gap in data and our ability to monitor the health of moms and babies that will be there, forever, because of these disruptions, regardless of whether these cuts stick
NEW from me: Earlier this month, HHS cut the CDC team that oversees PRAMS, a nearly 40-year-old program that works to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

Researchers are sounding alarms about it.

“PRAMS data not being available, I believe, is going to kill mothers and babies."
Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts
In the remote villages of Alaska where social worker Laura Norton-Cruz works to improve maternal and infant health, there are no hospitals.Pregnant patients, almost all of whom are Alaska Native, ofte...
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May 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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An update to show the seismic crash in NIH funding. The left side shows NIH has issued almost no "new" awards since Trump took office. Even renewals (you receive a 5 year award, but each year they renew it), which should be mushed into the lines above it, is shockingly low.
April 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Our new paper: folks leaving prison continued to access necessary medications for chronic conditions only around half the time in the community, even when enrolled in Medicaid and despite having a prescription in hand. Link to paper (open access): jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
March 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM