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PhD Candidate @NorthwesternU || I study health economics, public economics, and applied microeconomics || she/her
Aug 27, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
A Manufactured Tragedy: The Origins and Deep Ripples of the Opioid Epidemic, presented by @caroartc at @WiEMecon Image Overdose deaths involving opioids have increased dramatically in the US, and more the 300,000 have died due to this since 1999.
Aug 27, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion, presented by @TamarOostrom at @WiEMecon Image Deaths of despair (think suicide, overdoses, liver disease) were decreasing until the 1990s, when an uptick occurred.
Aug 26, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
Sex, Drugs, and R&D: Missing Innovation from Regulating Female Enrollment in Clinical Trials, presented by @v_michelman at @WeimEcon Image Many groups of people are understudied in research, potentially because it’s more costly to recruit certain types of patients, and because of regulatory barriers for studying vulnerable populations
Aug 26, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
Live-tweeting for @WiEMecon:
Relationship Banking and Credit Scores, presented by @m_shaton Image Credit scores are a controversial topic, for many good reasons! This paper focuses on the alternative and asks: what happens in a world without credit scores?