Sukriti Beniwal

Grateful and excited to share that I’ve been awarded the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Dissertation Grant for my research on midwifery and maternal health outcomes in the Medicaid program. @GSU_Economics @HorowitzFdn

Congratulations to GSU Economics PhD student Sukriti Beniwal (@BeniwalSukriti) on receiving the Horowitz Foundation Fellowship. Her research on midwife licensure and maternal health outcomes is a significant contribution to public health policy and maternal equity.

Work with me and my star coauthors (Patrick Agte & Pascaline Dupas) on AI & health! We're recruiting a full-time, Hindi-speaking field research associate to work on our project in Rajasthan. Please share and apply. Link in next tweet @econ_ra #econtwitter

CSWEP Now Accepting Applications: 2025 Mentoring Workshop for Women & Non-Binary Econ PhD Students. The workshop will be held in person on Friday, November 21st in Tampa, FL. Applications are due Friday, July 18th, 2025. For more information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We're talking a lot about Medicaid cuts these days. So what's the benefit of the Medicaid program? Well, expanding Medicaid saves lives and lowers teenage pregancy. In the long-run, the program also pays for itself. A Thread

#EconTwitter Seeking 1-2 papers for the #2025APPAM panel on public insurance mandates & healthcare access! Our paper with @LHoehnVelasco & @ReinaHuang explores Medicaid CNM reimbursement & midwife delivery growth. Need papers on health, labor markets, or reimbursement. Thanks!

It's been a while since I did a standard lit review thread, but here's one for #econsky #econtwitter about an important literature that's been growing recently: the effect of supply- and demand-side interventions on fertility in LMICs

Honored to receive the Graduate Student Paper Award at #SRSA this year! Grateful for the support of my advisors and mentors, and excited to keep digging into health policy & economics. @GSU_Economics @GSU_Research

I don’t want to see a new diff-in-diffs estimator unless it brings back American manufacturing jobs.

Incredible stuff--they wanted to make the thing seem more sophisticated than it is so they threw in two Greek letters but selected values that cancel out so it's still just trade deficit divided by imports.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

📢 Our new work "The #Menopause #Penalty" (w/ @RitaGinja @PerssonPetra is featured in @CTVNews 🇨🇦! "The menopause penalty: How earnings and careers are affected over time" ctvnews.ca/health/article… Our study here: ifs.org.uk/publications/m… 🛑Menopause. It’s time we pay attention.

🚨NEW STUDY🚨 #Menopause is costing women—& society—but how much? New @TheIFS study w/ @RitaGinja @EconBergen, @PerssonPetra @Stanford B. Willage @UDelaware shows the hidden economic toll of menopause w/🇳🇴🇸🇪data @EconUCL It’s time we pay attention: ifs.org.uk/publications/m… 🧵👇

Hi all! I am organizing a session at the #SEA on market shocks and financial strategies of hospitals… & looking for a paper or 2!

Public good announcement 📢📢 Extracted and geotagged locations of the 4,111 water quality monitoring stations from @CPCB_OFFICIAL data. More to come: BOD & chemical concentration of major Indian rivers —suggestions welcome! #OpenData #GIS Access here: github.com/aaditya3625/ef…

North Carolina requires FAR more licenses to work than the average state. #ncpol Roughly 1 in 5 North Carolinians need a license to do their job. #ncga

Hey researchers, bloggers, everyone interested in fertility data! We recently added lots of new data at Our World in Data on fertility rates, ages at childbirth, twin birth rates, birth seasonality, and more. Here's a thread of what you can find on the site! 🧵

From a junior scholar (with @karthik_econ) investigating whether the "Cycles Program" made a difference in my home state @BiharEducation_, to over a decade of research on the topic, and now witnessing its transformative policy impact—this journey has been extraordinary. 🚴‍♀️

Roses are red Violets are blue You need a PhD supervisor Who cares about you