Atheendar Venkataramani
@atheendar.bsky.social
Physician and health economist.
@oppforhealthlab.bsky.social
@oppforhealthlab.bsky.social
I have now been told on three separate occasions for three separate papers that my findings speak beyond the data.
The conversations have been somewhat charged, too.
It makes me wonder if I am a problem in science.
I'm not looking for sympathy. Mainly it's an interest thing to reflect on.
The conversations have been somewhat charged, too.
It makes me wonder if I am a problem in science.
I'm not looking for sympathy. Mainly it's an interest thing to reflect on.
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I have now been told on three separate occasions for three separate papers that my findings speak beyond the data.
The conversations have been somewhat charged, too.
It makes me wonder if I am a problem in science.
I'm not looking for sympathy. Mainly it's an interest thing to reflect on.
The conversations have been somewhat charged, too.
It makes me wonder if I am a problem in science.
I'm not looking for sympathy. Mainly it's an interest thing to reflect on.
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ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
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The world could use less artificial intelligence and more plain intelligence right about now.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The world could use less artificial intelligence and more plain intelligence right about now.
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Working on a project about AI and trust in historically marginalized communities and need your voices. 🙏 If you’re open to sharing your views (and maybe a short video), please take this quick survey and share widely. Selected video contributors get a $25 gift card. 💳🗣️ Link: forms.gle/RFvedx2e2Lmd...
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Working on a project about AI and trust in historically marginalized communities and need your voices. 🙏 If you’re open to sharing your views (and maybe a short video), please take this quick survey and share widely. Selected video contributors get a $25 gift card. 💳🗣️ Link: forms.gle/RFvedx2e2Lmd...
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Difference-in-Differences with Compositional Changes (Sant'Anna, Xu) This paper studies difference-in-differences (DiD) setups with repeated cross-sectional data and potential compositional changes across time periods. We begin our analysis by deriving the efficient influence function and
Difference-in-Differences with Compositional Changes (Sant'Anna, Xu) This paper studies difference-in-differences (DiD) setups with repeated cross-sectional data and potential compositional changes across time periods. We begin our analysis by deriving the efficient influence function and
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Difference-in-Differences with Compositional Changes (Sant'Anna, Xu) This paper studies difference-in-differences (DiD) setups with repeated cross-sectional data and potential compositional changes across time periods. We begin our analysis by deriving the efficient influence function and
Difference-in-Differences with Compositional Changes (Sant'Anna, Xu) This paper studies difference-in-differences (DiD) setups with repeated cross-sectional data and potential compositional changes across time periods. We begin our analysis by deriving the efficient influence function and
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🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition for ‘little luxuries’, reshaping basic needs and worsening malnutrition. The implications for poverty programmes are large.
ow.ly
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
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I was glad to be on the latest episode of @dkthomp.bsky.social's Plain English podcast, discussing how to turn around declining US math skills.
We know at least some of the solutions but in many cases have been doing just the opposite.
Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/06Ve...
We know at least some of the solutions but in many cases have been doing just the opposite.
Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/06Ve...
The American Math Crisis
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I was glad to be on the latest episode of @dkthomp.bsky.social's Plain English podcast, discussing how to turn around declining US math skills.
We know at least some of the solutions but in many cases have been doing just the opposite.
Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/06Ve...
We know at least some of the solutions but in many cases have been doing just the opposite.
Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/06Ve...
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
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'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing. n.pr/3LLFZ0J
As a labor force, artists are 'invisible.' A new survey tries to change that
'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing. n.pr/3LLFZ0J
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Hear hear! And here's one more! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hear hear! And here's one more! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
1/ This is among a few incredible recent #global #health trials in @nejm.org that have flown under the radar. Some others
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It's possible to make stuff better! Sometimes with really simple interventions!
We should be celebrating!!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It's possible to make stuff better! Sometimes with really simple interventions!
We should be celebrating!!
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ This is among a few incredible recent #global #health trials in @nejm.org that have flown under the radar. Some others
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It's possible to make stuff better! Sometimes with really simple interventions!
We should be celebrating!!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It's possible to make stuff better! Sometimes with really simple interventions!
We should be celebrating!!
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This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis. Full APT-Sepsis trial results: nej.md/4o6xhaF
#MedSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #OBGYN
I made this error once in a reply to a critique.
I thought that mismeasurement of the exposure would attenuate impacts. It does in some cases, but not always (and perhaps less often than I thought).
I thought that mismeasurement of the exposure would attenuate impacts. It does in some cases, but not always (and perhaps less often than I thought).
This paper makes the claim that their DAG may be incorrect, but errors can only downwardly bias their estimate of interest. That's just flat wrong.
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I made this error once in a reply to a critique.
I thought that mismeasurement of the exposure would attenuate impacts. It does in some cases, but not always (and perhaps less often than I thought).
I thought that mismeasurement of the exposure would attenuate impacts. It does in some cases, but not always (and perhaps less often than I thought).
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Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
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Wrote a new paper on the econometrics of financial event studies, would value feedback! It's very new.
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Wrote a new paper on the econometrics of financial event studies, would value feedback! It's very new.
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
A story I am telling -- but wish I didn't have to.
A story that I fear will be repeated more frequently in the coming years.
A story that I fear will be repeated more frequently in the coming years.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A story I am telling -- but wish I didn't have to.
A story that I fear will be repeated more frequently in the coming years.
A story that I fear will be repeated more frequently in the coming years.
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Do you love health economics and learning about cool new research? Do you like telling other people about it? Come and be a social media editor at AJHE!! We're looking for someone to join our editorial team @ashecon.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Do you love health economics and learning about cool new research? Do you like telling other people about it? Come and be a social media editor at AJHE!! We're looking for someone to join our editorial team @ashecon.bsky.social
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New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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Incredible paper that shows what I have long believed at my core: that research & teaching can complement each other, and that having research-active faculty teach undergrads is a very good thing!
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
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November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Incredible paper that shows what I have long believed at my core: that research & teaching can complement each other, and that having research-active faculty teach undergrads is a very good thing!
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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In time for the @pennchibe.bsky.social meeting, our paper about how the number of alternatives influences physician decision-making.
#MedSky #BehaviouralScience
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#MedSky #BehaviouralScience
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Multiple Suggested Care Alternatives and Decision-Making of PCPs
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether providing primary care physicians (PCPs) with 1 vs 2 or more appropriate treatment alternatives in a choice set has an effect on the odds that they ...
jamanetwork.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In time for the @pennchibe.bsky.social meeting, our paper about how the number of alternatives influences physician decision-making.
#MedSky #BehaviouralScience
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#MedSky #BehaviouralScience
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Political institutions determine who governs -- and who lives.
We find that enfranchising marginalized groups improved their health.
We also find that redistribution of power led to relative increases in mortality for non-targeted groups--despite material circumstances improving for all groups.
We find that enfranchising marginalized groups improved their health.
We also find that redistribution of power led to relative increases in mortality for non-targeted groups--despite material circumstances improving for all groups.
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 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Political institutions determine who governs -- and who lives.
We find that enfranchising marginalized groups improved their health.
We also find that redistribution of power led to relative increases in mortality for non-targeted groups--despite material circumstances improving for all groups.
We find that enfranchising marginalized groups improved their health.
We also find that redistribution of power led to relative increases in mortality for non-targeted groups--despite material circumstances improving for all groups.