Jacob Wallace
@jacobwswallace.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ Yale SPH and Sixers fan. Health economist whose research is focused on the Medicaid program.
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Research on insurer coverage rules is in today’s NY Times.
Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know.
Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...
Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know.
Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...
Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Research on insurer coverage rules is in today’s NY Times.
Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know.
Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...
Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know.
Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...
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My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
June 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
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If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A Half-Century of Prevention — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | NEJM
In 1964, after a vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis
began, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was created to advise the
U.S. government on vaccinati...
www.nejm.org
February 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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These are important stats to know as we "debate" the provisions in the budget bill.
(#publichealth rigor PLUS impact, right here, from @jacobwswallace.bsky.social!)
cc @yalesph.bsky.social
(#publichealth rigor PLUS impact, right here, from @jacobwswallace.bsky.social!)
cc @yalesph.bsky.social
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social)
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
tobin.yale.edu
June 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These are important stats to know as we "debate" the provisions in the budget bill.
(#publichealth rigor PLUS impact, right here, from @jacobwswallace.bsky.social!)
cc @yalesph.bsky.social
(#publichealth rigor PLUS impact, right here, from @jacobwswallace.bsky.social!)
cc @yalesph.bsky.social
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Very honored and grateful that URBAN POWER recently been recognized by two sections of the ASA:
Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Best Book Award (honorable mention) from Sociology of Development
Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Best Book Award (honorable mention) from Sociology of Development
URBAN POWER, coming October 22, 2024 with @princetonupress.bsky.social.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
June 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Very honored and grateful that URBAN POWER recently been recognized by two sections of the ASA:
Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Best Book Award (honorable mention) from Sociology of Development
Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Best Book Award (honorable mention) from Sociology of Development
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Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social)
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
tobin.yale.edu
June 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social)
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social)
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
tobin.yale.edu
June 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social)
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?
New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...
Thread below 👇
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New research letter led by Hannah Factor, a star PhD student here in Harvard's health policy program, finds that damage from SNAP work requirements is hard to undo, likely because of the administrative burdens involved with re-enrollment
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
June 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New research letter led by Hannah Factor, a star PhD student here in Harvard's health policy program, finds that damage from SNAP work requirements is hard to undo, likely because of the administrative burdens involved with re-enrollment
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it.
Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)
Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)
Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries | NEJM
A total of 14 million Medicare beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS),
which reduces cost sharing in Medicare Part D. Losing the LIS may impede medication
access and affect mortality. U...
www.nejm.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it.
Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)
Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)
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Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
wisdems.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
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Boycott tomorrow!
Join in tomorrow’s economic blackout
robertreich.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Please join us for the next Medicaid Insights Colloquium on Feb. 12 featuring the incomparable @jacobwswallace.bsky.social on how managed care manages care:
"The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid"
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid"
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Medicaid Insights Colloquium with Dr. Jacob Wallace. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid
us06web.zoom.us
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Please join us for the next Medicaid Insights Colloquium on Feb. 12 featuring the incomparable @jacobwswallace.bsky.social on how managed care manages care:
"The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid"
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid"
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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This is an outstanding opportunity to work with outstanding faculty incl @jacobwswallace.bsky.social in a dynamic department here @yalesph.bsky.social 👇
🧪🛟📈📉 #econsky #academicsky #healthpolicysky
🧪🛟📈📉 #econsky #academicsky #healthpolicysky
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health
Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health
ysph.yale.edu
January 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is an outstanding opportunity to work with outstanding faculty incl @jacobwswallace.bsky.social in a dynamic department here @yalesph.bsky.social 👇
🧪🛟📈📉 #econsky #academicsky #healthpolicysky
🧪🛟📈📉 #econsky #academicsky #healthpolicysky
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Interested in multiple hypothesis testing? The Stata command wyoung is updated to version 2.0 with new support for permutation-based resampling. Install with:
ssc install wyoung, replace
#EconSky
More details here:
github.com/reifjulian/w...
ssc install wyoung, replace
#EconSky
More details here:
github.com/reifjulian/w...
GitHub - reifjulian/wyoung: Control the family-wise error rate when performing multiple hypothesis tests
Control the family-wise error rate when performing multiple hypothesis tests - reifjulian/wyoung
github.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Interested in multiple hypothesis testing? The Stata command wyoung is updated to version 2.0 with new support for permutation-based resampling. Install with:
ssc install wyoung, replace
#EconSky
More details here:
github.com/reifjulian/w...
ssc install wyoung, replace
#EconSky
More details here:
github.com/reifjulian/w...
🚨 Re-upping this Postdoc at Yale! 🚨
It is a great time to be at YSPH:
1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school
2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social
3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas
This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!
It is a great time to be at YSPH:
1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school
2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social
3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas
This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health
Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health
ysph.yale.edu
January 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🚨 Re-upping this Postdoc at Yale! 🚨
It is a great time to be at YSPH:
1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school
2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social
3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas
This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!
It is a great time to be at YSPH:
1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school
2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social
3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas
This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!
I am *THRILLED* the 2025 Economic Report of the President is highlighting the financial risk protection provided by public insurance programs
Excited to see my work with @paulgp.com and Maxim Pinkovskiy included with many other great studies
Link to the report: bit.ly/428zURZ
1/
Excited to see my work with @paulgp.com and Maxim Pinkovskiy included with many other great studies
Link to the report: bit.ly/428zURZ
1/
January 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I am *THRILLED* the 2025 Economic Report of the President is highlighting the financial risk protection provided by public insurance programs
Excited to see my work with @paulgp.com and Maxim Pinkovskiy included with many other great studies
Link to the report: bit.ly/428zURZ
1/
Excited to see my work with @paulgp.com and Maxim Pinkovskiy included with many other great studies
Link to the report: bit.ly/428zURZ
1/
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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health
Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health
ysph.yale.edu
January 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Great postdoc opportunity
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health
Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health
ysph.yale.edu
January 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great postdoc opportunity
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Holy crap this will be an awesome postdoc
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health
Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health
ysph.yale.edu
January 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Holy crap this will be an awesome postdoc
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health
Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health
ysph.yale.edu
January 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social
Why you'll love it:
💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks
#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth
Please RT! 🙏
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It was a pleasure to write this piece for Health Affairs on risk adjustment in Medicare. Risk adjustment modifies payments to health plans or ACOs based on patient/beneficiary characteristics. Here's a very brief summary of my thoughts🧵
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
January 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It was a pleasure to write this piece for Health Affairs on risk adjustment in Medicare. Risk adjustment modifies payments to health plans or ACOs based on patient/beneficiary characteristics. Here's a very brief summary of my thoughts🧵
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Our #Tobacco21 project was years in the making and I'm thrilled to finally see it out! Big Thank you to our partners at at PTAF / tobacco21, the whole team at CISNET and our friends at Cornerstone who made this gorgeous website to accompany the paper! Explore T21 effects at tobaccopolicyeffects.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Our #Tobacco21 project was years in the making and I'm thrilled to finally see it out! Big Thank you to our partners at at PTAF / tobacco21, the whole team at CISNET and our friends at Cornerstone who made this gorgeous website to accompany the paper! Explore T21 effects at tobaccopolicyeffects.org