Predoc opportunity in health/labor/public economics at @BeckerFriedman @UChicago: https://t.co/pnkwRPzYqd Please share widely!

Rather than reducing the student loan burden for all medical students, efforts from some schools to create a 3-year track for general medicine students is a real solution to the primary care shortage. It creates a strong, targeted incentive for students to prefer primary care:

Dramatic news from @CMSGov today---these decisions spill over into private insurance https://t.co/a76HnmmyxL (w/ @jeffreypclemens @JPolEcon) and matter for talent allocation: https://t.co/4IO0zbDW4N @QJEHarvard Is this good or bad? Depends on which specialties need talent most.

Timely read from in @nytimes on the way health care jobs remade the economy, and how the GOP megabill could dent that jobs engine. https://t.co/6hf3ZakzMY 1/2

Great story/charts from @lydiadepillis @christinezhang on how health care ate the American economy. This pair of maps is especially striking.

Very clear article by @lydiadepillis @nytimes discussing our @BeckerFriedman / @nberpubs working paper and other aspects of healthcare job growth. For more detail, the full paper together w/ @nealemahoney @SIEPR @kevinrinz @UdalovaVictoria is here:

Thanks for having me and for organizing a fantastic conference and panel. I talked about how perceptions of the monetary policy framework have changed during the recent inflationary experiment and beyond, and why it matters. #ECBForum @ecb @michaelbauer_hh

Very clear article by @lydiadepillis @nytimes discussing our @BeckerFriedman / @nberpubs working paper and other aspects of healthcare job growth. For more detail, the full paper together w/ @nealemahoney @SIEPR @kevinrinz @UdalovaVictoria is here:

For the few years I've been covering jobs reports, and one sector typically rises above the rest, quietly hiring by the thousands: Health care. How taking care of humans became the biggest employer in America, and what it means for the rest of us. https://t.co/ZlO1q6sSJi

Examining the impact of reducing the administrative fragmentation of billing and payment by studying a Medicare reform that consolidated billing processes across service types, from @rileyleague and @maggieshi311 https://t.co/u4q6llpR6Z

New work on administrative burdens from @rileyleague @maggieshi311

On May 1–2, BFI’s Health Economics Initiative Conference brought together faculty, researchers & students to share new work in health economics. Organizers: @GottliebEcon & @ProfNoto ; Keynote: Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth). https://t.co/HOnZNneDdS #HealthEconomics #EconTwitter

Thanks to all of our thoughtful speakers, attendees, keynote Jon Skinner @DartmouthEcon, co-organizer @ProfNoto, and the @BeckerFriedman staff for an outstanding conference!

📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —  with @AlexBartik and @DMilo75, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI. Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

#QJE May 2025, #8, “The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians,” by Gottlieb (@GottliebEcon), Polyakova (@MariaAPolyakova), Rinz (@kevinrinz), Shiplett, and Udalova (@UdalovaVictoria):

@nberpubs @GottliebEcon @kevinrinz More details 👇

Healthcare employment in the US has skyrocketed since 1980. Healthcare is a middle-class jobs engine, but "manufacturing-to-meds" transitions are not saving the Rust Belt, from @GottliebEcon, @nealemahoney, @kevinrinz, and Victoria Udalova https://t.co/wRsuEaXGG0

Much more in the draft. Check it out 👇 Ungated paper: https://t.co/wTFFPIJOPV NBER WP:

We find these high-profile manufacturing-to-meds examples are outliers that do not represent a systematic trend. Healthcare job growth has offset roughly 11% of the decline in manufacturing jobs. This is roughly what you would expect based on its share of the workforce.

Politicians, the press, and researchers have advocated for a "manufacturing to meds" pivot in the Rust Belt. Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, and Rochester, NY are cited as prominent success stories.