John Heinz Dissertation Award

Kerwin Charles is the Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at the Yale School of Management. He was recently interviewed on People I Mostly Admire podcast, part of the Freakonomics Radio Network. Read the article and check out the full episode here.

Manasi Deshpande’s recent research includes empirical public finance and labor economics, effects of social insurance and public assistance programs, and labor markets. Deshpande is working on a forthcoming project through the University of Chicago, titled, “How Do Expectations about Government Benefits Affect Human Capital Investment?” View the extended abstract here.

In addition, we interviewed Manasi after she won the Heinz Award in 2016; click here to read more about her insights on the Award.

Jacob Hacker’s most recent book, co-authored with Paul Pierson, Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, hit shelves last summer (2020). The book “addresses the question of how right-wing Republicans have gained and maintained their power despite the fact that their policies result in extreme – and increasing – economic and social inequality” (Booklist review).

You can read more about Jacob Hacker here, and purchase the book here.

At the end of last year, Isabel M. Perera and newly-elected Academy member, Desmond King, co-authored “Racial Pay Parity in the Public Sector: The Overlooked Role of Employee Mobilization” in Politics & Society. Check out their blog post in Work in Progress, and you can find the free, pre-publication version of the article here.

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on health policy in the U.S and Latin America, specifically understanding how policies affect individuals’ health behaviors and economic outcomes. He recently shared his thoughts on the Supreme Court’s decision on the ACA and its policy implications, check out an article and the video.

Learn more about Sebastian’s background and research here.

Ezra Golberstein, is an assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. A health policy researcher and health economist, he completed his doctorate at the University of Michigan and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

Research: Health care for vulnerable populations, mental health services, long-term effects of exposure to Medicaid, effects of the Affordable Care Act on mental health services and out-of-pocket spending.

Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, is the recipient of the National Academy of Social Insurance’s 2022 John Heinz Dissertation Award. Fashaw-Walters’ dissertation, “Inequities in Home Health Access, Outcomes, and the Impact of Public Reporting,” was submitted for her doctorate in Health Services Research at Brown University. Kali Thomas, an associate professor at Brown University, nominated Fashaw-Walters’ dissertation, which examines the nuanced ways in which access to high-quality home care differs by class, race and ethnicity, and neighborhood.

Senator John Heinz was an early advocate for health care reform, seeking to control costs while improving benefits for all Americans. As a politician who worked for 20 years on Capitol Hill, he believed that bipartisanship, civility and integrity were the key to legislative success. As a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, he sought to defend the nation’s growing elderly population and he was “instrumental in pushing through legislation that put the Social Security system on sounder financial footing”.