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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
@lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social
Economics Assistant Professor @gsueconomics.bsky.social @iza.org

Health, public, and demographic economics.
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🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Excited to share our new study with Professor @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social, and @reinahuang.bsky.social on Public Payment Mandates & Provider Supply: a look at how Medicaid reimbursement helped bring Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) into mainstream U.S. healthcare 🧵
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor! 🚨

Come join us at GSU econ (@gsueconomics.bsky.social)!! We’re an applied, collaborative, and innovative department in the heart of Atlanta. #EconSky

Happy to talk more about our department for anyone considering applying.
Located in Atlanta, we offer exceptional opportunities for collaboration with leading institutions such as the Atlanta Fed and the CDC. Apply today to become part of our growing team. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky

👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.
September 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thrilled to start the fall semester’s seminar series at @gsueconomics.bsky.social 🎉

If you’re in Atlanta and would like to join one of the talks, send me a message!
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Our 2nd annual @gsueconomics.bsky.social PhD Summer Symposium was a success! 🎉 It was great to showcase our GSU Economics JMCs for 2025–26.

Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!
August 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
“The Consequences of Federal Abortion Funding Bans” from @mayrapinedat.bsky.social, @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social, and Nikita Dhingra looks at a really understudied form of abortion restrictions
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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#EconSky Seeking 1-2 papers for the #2025APPAM panel on public insurance mandates & healthcare access! Our paper with @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social and Yu-Ting Huang explores Medicaid CNM reimbursement & midwife delivery growth. Need papers on health policy, labor markets, or reimbursement. Thanks!
April 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Honored to receive the Graduate Student Paper Award at #SRSA this year! Grateful for the support of my advisors and mentors, and excited to keep digging into health policy & economics.
@gsueconomics.bsky.social
@lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Congratulations to our own @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social
for her recent publication in the Journal of Health Economics
along with her coauthors Seth Freedman and Diana R. Jolles!

"Intensive care supply and admission decisions": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Intensive care supply and admission decisions
Over 2005–2019, the number of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) grew by 10%, and the number of NICU beds increased by 30%. This expansion in inten…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
Awful timing given the funding meltdown in the USA

IZA shutting down its institute in Bonn

Hoping to maintain the scholar network

www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...
February 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
🚨 #EconSky PhD students working in Applied Micro:

Submit your paper for the 4th Workshop, co-organized by @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social, Priya Mukherjee, and me!

Plus, we have two amazing keynotes this year: @econsandy.bsky.social and Rema Hanna.
AMIE is now accepting submissions for the "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics", for PhD students, to be held remotely on Zoom on April 28 and 29, 2025.

Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025

Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u...

Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3
econmentoring.org
February 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Excited for our spring seminar lineup at @gsueconomics.bsky.social !!

If you’re in the Atlanta area, reach out to me if you want to drop in on one of these talks.
January 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Deadline is soon! The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
Submission: Race and Stratification Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
conference.nber.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
We have **two** open endowed chair positions at GSU!! 🎉

Our department is very collegial and everyone works on applied/policy relevant work. It’s a great place to be!
We are expanding at @gsueconomics.bsky.social !

Join our innovative department in the Andrew Young School at GSU as we hire for another endowed chair position. This full professor will provide leadership to our Experimental Economics Center

Apply now via JOE! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
December 5, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
264/ Not a literal starter pack, but @annagoeddeke.bsky.social has assembled a googledoc of starter packs.

bsky.app/profile/anna...
Hi #EconSky,

Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 22, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
We often forget how many aspects of life have dramatically improved in recent history
The remarkable drop in child mortality.
November 18, 2024 at 4:34 AM
November 17, 2024 at 10:55 PM
I made a starter pack for GSU economists!

I’m sure I missed people, so feel free to comment and tell me to add you 😬

go.bsky.app/Qw7tAjd
November 17, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Thanks @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social for the invitation! It was great to present and catch up with everyone 😊
Friday follow (are we still doing that?) for my coauthor @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social. Lauren is presenting at the Harvard BU Economic History Seminar this afternoon #EconSky
November 15, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
📢 We're hiring at @gsueconomics.bsky.social ! Come join our Economics department at Georgia State University! 📢

We're hiring an endowed chair position. This is an open field full professor position, with the option for promotion upon hire! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

#EconSky
November 15, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
149! I have one spot left in this starter pack! Whom did I miss? (Guess there will be more of these necessary soon...). @bsky.app , why the 150 cap, anyway?

go.bsky.app/5NP4VCb
November 14, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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The call for abstracts for the 14th ASHEcon Conference is now open! The conference will be held June 22-25, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Nashville in Nashville, TN.

Submit here 👉 www.ashecon.org/announcement...

The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM PST.
November 13, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Come be our colleague! @gsueconomics.bsky.social is a great place to be an economist. #EconSky

Happy to talk more about the position or our department for anyone considering applying.
We're hiring at @gsueconomics.bsky.social ! Come join our econ dept at Georgia State University! ATL is amazing!

We are hiring for two tenured chair positions
The first position is active on JOE and is open field; the second position will be posted soon.

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

#EconSky
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
www.aeaweb.org
November 13, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
November 12, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Hello sky people! If you're posting about your JMP then please use the hashtag #EconJMP, so that economists can find it easily. For any economics related post, use #EconSky or 📉📈.
Econ job market candidate intros.

Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.

Employers, browse & interact respectfully.

Everyone else, shhhh.
📉📈
November 12, 2024 at 6:57 PM