🗓️ We kick off with an informal gathering on July 1st, followed by two full days of presentations on July 2–3.

🤝 Looking forward to welcoming all participants to Patras!

📢 The programme for this year’s Patras Applied Microeconomics (PAM) Workshop is now live!
🔗 Check out the exciting lineup of presentations here:

pamworkshop.upatras.gr/programme/

I am grateful to Swansea Econ, our friend
@Savolainen_R who organised it and all the participants for the great discussion during the presentation and after it! 🙌💬

In this work, we explore how economic incentives shape health-related behaviour and group decision-making — a fascinating topic with real-world implications for policy and cooperation. 🌎

🔎 Our review process is now underway, and outcomes will be communicated soon — so stay tuned and keep checking your mailboxes!
Looking forward to welcoming you all to our new building in Patras! 🎉🎓
#PAM #PAM2025 #AppliedMicroeconomics #EconBsky

👀📖If you're interested, you can check it out at the 🔗 below. Feel free to have a read and reach out — lots happening in this area and still plenty left to explore.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Of course, the paper has greatly benefited from the excellent feedback and comments provided by everyone on the Editorial Team (incl. @osea.bsky.social and @joemoscelli.bsky.social ) and all the reviewers; many thanks to everyone for their time and effort allocated to review my work. 🙏

🧑‍⚕️💙 A really long journey, but so happy to finally share this work! I I am very thankful to everyone who supported me & collaborated and with me during this journey; I learned a lot, I met and worked with wonderful people out there!

💡Why it matters: Policymakers should focus on supporting hospitals (and staff) in delivering timely, high-quality care. This is essential for fairer and better outcomes — and highlights the indispensable role of foreign-trained doctors in the NHS.

✅ 3. Foreign-trained doctors are indeed crucial to supporting English hospitals facing staff shortages and other resource constraints.

✅ 2. Timely and appropriate treatment can reduce mortality and offset hospital quality gaps and differences in workforce composition.

✅ 1. Hospitals with higher shares of foreign-trained doctors tend to have higher heart attack mortality on average — but this is rather driven by lower-quality, under-resourced hospitals, not by foreign doctors themselves.

It looks at the role of foreign-trained doctors in the English NHS and their relationship with hospital quality and patient outcomes. 🔑 Key findings:

⌛I've been working on this paper since early 2016, when I was a post-doc back in the @uniofsurrey.bsky.social; and this was also my JMP when I joined @citystgeorges.bsky.social as a Lecturer in #economics so this one is especially meaningful!

🔍 What’s the paper about? A short 🧵⬇️