David Molitor
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Economist and Associate Professor @giesbusiness. Director, Health Care Research Initiative. Affiliate @nberpubs @JPAL_NA.
Champaign, IL
Joined February 2011
I’m excited to see my work on how place shapes health outcomes featured in AEA chart of the week
Your choice of where to live affects more than personal finances and lifestyle—it can actually have an impact on your long-term health, say @TDeryugina and @davidmolitor in today's #ChartOfTheWeek
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Regular health screenings are a critical component of preventive care. In a multi-wave field experiment, Damon Jones, @davidmolitor, and @JulianReif find that financial incentives increase participation in screenings both immediately & in the long term. https://t.co/gECbVEqtIM
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I have an important update about this: we are looking to fill out 5 senior slots and 3 junior slots. Please, apply and reach out if interested! Or help me to spread out the news! @HannoLustig @luigi_bocola @JonSteinsson @IvanWerning @glviolante @JesusFerna7026 @LudvigsonSydney
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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
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Gies professor @davidmolitor talks air quality research with @WCIA3 👇 #GiesBusiness #BusinessOnPurpose
The last few years in particular, WCIA has brought you several stories about the devasting wildfires happening across the world. In Central Illinois, a University of Illinois professor is learning how the smoke from those events can impact public health.
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Dan Sacks and I are looking for a postdoc to work on Medicaid evaluation projects at UW-IRP: https://t.co/zV04gepIkv. Email your resume and cover letter to Tim Connor at tim.connor@wisc.edu. For any questions, please contact Dan
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Browse Postoc and Research Intern vacancies at UW–Madison.
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Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT!
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We are in the unusual position to hire a promising young economist for a pre-doc position this month. It’s off-cycle, but we’re anxious to work with you if you’d like to apply! I’ve got some fun projects coming up I think. Spread the word!
@KelloggSchool Profs @sarapfmoreira, Benjamin Friedrich, @RyanReedHill, and @ShengmaoCao are hiring research fellows who will work closely on a number of new and ongoing projects in industrial organization, labor economics, and organizational economics. https://t.co/rMBUNji2XU
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Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Link in next post. Plz share!
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Is US air pollution regulation too lenient? 🏭💸 We find marginal benefits of pollution control exceed marginal costs by >10×. New evidence from dozens of US pollution offset markets. 📄forthcoming at AER , w/ Reed Walker 1/🧵
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES: Now hiring several new @PERCtweets roles: 💧 Senior Researcher (Water) 🌲 Senior Researcher (Public & Private Lands) 🦌 Senior Researcher (Wildlife) 🏞️ Senior Researcher (Generalist - Conservation & Policy) 🦬 Conservation Associate https://t.co/PxGUisemKv
perc.org
PERC is growing. You can too.
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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
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The idea that the cost of healthcare could easily be reduced by cutting unnecessary admin is too good to be true: https://t.co/MZGsBm7Rek
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Last month, I stepped down as an editor after 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA). I have gathered a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary negative referee reports.
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We are back! EEE Summer School @ Berkeley! 🔗 Info + application: https://t.co/wrwNpcgm3l📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 We especially encourage early stage Ph.D. students with possible interest in EEE topics! Must be enrolled in North American Econ"ish" Ph.D. program.
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#QJE May 2025, #8, “The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians,” by Gottlieb (@GottliebEcon), Polyakova (@MariaAPolyakova), Rinz (@kevinrinz), Shiplett, and Udalova (@UdalovaVictoria):
academic.oup.com
Abstract. Is government guiding the invisible hand at the top of the labor market? We use new administrative data to measure physicians’ earnings and estim
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The April 2023 decision to stop reporting medical debts below $500 on consumer credit reports had no effect on credit access or financial health, from Victor Duarte, @JuliaAFonseca, Divij Kohli, and Julian Reif https://t.co/KPRPInTwmB
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What if we already have a vaccine for dementia? Great explainer of my group’s new Nature paper ( https://t.co/yKWKFhGrUn) on shingles vax by @ChrisWorsham @AnupamBJena: https://t.co/zd4GezuhLO and summary by @EricTopol: https://t.co/wqt3Naqsgp. Video here:
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Here's the The New York Times coverage of this aspect of the Illinois Wellness Study.
nytimes.com
Randomized controlled trials, despite their flaws, remain a powerful tool.
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I also view this as one of the most informative aspects of the study, demonstrating the value of randomization when program participation depends on hard-to-observe factors like motivation and health. Great graphic and discussion by @UpshotNYT (link in next post).
But the most amazing detail, in my opinion, is that this study went further: It explained why prior observational work showed such large benefits for workplace wellness programs. The reason is selection: health-conscious employees selected into the program and stuck with it!
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Behavioral change is very hard for people to sustain. Selection bias is very real. This outstanding study from 2018 by @nomadj1s @davidmolitor @JulianReif illustrates why randomization is so important when those two effects are prominent. Couple more thoughts & paper link follow.
Researchers put together an incredible workplace wellness program that provided thousands of workers with paid time off to receive biometric health screening, health risk assessments, smoking cessation help, stress management, exercise, etc. What did this do for their health?🧵
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