It's crazy how fast my time at Emory is coming to the end! Thanks to my amazing committee for all the support over the last six years. Especially @ianhealthecon who has sacrificed many hours to get me to this point. Australia here I come!

Meet @pabloestradac, a Ph.D. candidate on the job market. His research focuses on Network Interference, #causalinference, and Applied Econometrics. His job market paper introduces a method to estimate spillover effects using nonrandom samples. Learn more 🔗 ⬇️ #EconTwitter

Meet @KatieLeinenbach, a Ph.D. candidate in Economics on the job market! 🌟 Her research shows that marijuana legalization improves health and employment outcomes for older adults, boosting their autonomy. Discover more about Katie and her work 🔗 ⬇️ #EconTwitter

(8/8) Check out my website for all of my work. If you're interested in my research, please reach out! I'd love to chat. https://t.co/w2QeOqMzh8

(7/8) This has implications for policymakers when predicting how hospitals respond to incentives- it's not just being nonprofit that matters, the people who are leading the hospital matter too!

(6/8) And! non-clinical exec teams respond just like for-profit hospitals on average, so this response seems to be due to non-clinical teams being more profit-driven

(5/8) Using synthetic DiD weighting & comparing hospitals w/ clinical execs to those w/out clinical execs after P4P reveals a more drastic reduction in readmission rates by non-clinical exec teams (by .3ppts). This is a meaningful magnitude compared to avg effect of HRRP (~1ppt)

(4/8) I leverage pay-for-performance (P4P) policies in the US (penalizing bad quality or rewarding good quality) to investigate whether a background in clinical training affects the way hospital exec teams respond to financial incentives on quality

(3/8) Thinking about this in the nonprofit context is important: nonprofits are a large driver of the hospital industry. Hospital policies have been targeting better value of care (⬆️quality & ⬇️cost), but it's unclear how different leaders might interact with this goal!

(2/8) We have limited knowledge about the effects of leaders in health care. I scrape executive names, positions, and titles from publicly available tax forms filled out by nonprofit firms in the US to add to our understanding of how characteristics of these leaders might matter

I'm on the market! I guess that means it's time for the long awaited JMP thread >> stay tuned until the end for a short summary video (1/8) My JMP estimates how clinical training affects hospital behavior in response to a change in financial incentives on quality

It's very cool to go from admiring these job market candidates in the past to now seeing my name and work out there... It's true, "job market candidate" is my whole personality for the foreseeable future. JMP thread coming soon!

Decided to re-watch criminal minds while on the market to see if anything can scare me more than putting myself out there to economists

Big fan of EuHEA and Vienna! Such a great group of researchers and people who I have learned so much from. Now to London for some sightseeing!

finally got my film pics back from Austria 📷 shot on Pentax ME 35mm

Got my first paper acceptance!! We decided to celebrate with a little rooftop picnic… I think I’ll keep the tradition 🥹

Salzburg.

Had a blast going back Milledgeville to pass down some advice after being gone for 4 years!

Congratulations to @EmoryEconomics graduate student @hannalynnglenn! Runner Up winner of the 2023 @laneygradschool 3-Minute Thesis titled, "How do Physicians Respond to Technological Change?" You rock! @Kimjacobarriola @EmoryCollege @EmoryUniversity

@EmoryEconomics graduate student life...what a better way to start a week than meeting @NobelPrize Winner David Card while visiting our department. We look forward his talk on #affirmativeaction. @EmoryUniversity @emorycollege @gregfenves @ravibell