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Alex J. Hollingsworth

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Research areas:
Environmental and Energy Policy
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Policy Analysis
Social Policy and Health
Areas of Interest:
Health economics
Regulation
Environmental economics
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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2015
  • M.A., University of Arizona, 2011
  • B.S. and B.A, Miami University, Ohio, 2009

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  • Overview of the U.S. Health Care System
  • Health Industry Regulation
  • Statistical Analysis for Effective Decision Making
  • Seminar in Policy Analysis
  • Economic Development

Biography

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Alex Hollingsworth is an associate professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Before arriving at IU in 2015, Hollingsworth completed his Ph.D. and master’s in economics at the University of Arizona and studied quantitative economics and diplomacy and foreign affairs at Miami University in Ohio.

Hollingsworth is a health economist who examines how regulations affect public health with interests in population health, environmental economics, substance abuse, and access to care. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has been published in outlets including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and JAMA: Internal Medicine. His research has also been covered by Scientific American, the Washington Post, CNBC, the Atlantic, VOX, and the Los Angeles Times. 

In 2018, Hollingsworth was recognized by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management with the 40 for 40 fellowship, honoring outstanding early career researchers. 

Hollingsworth teaches courses on statistics, health regulation, and an overview of the U.S. health care system. His commitment in the classroom was recognized in 2018 when he was awarded the Trustees Teaching Award. 

He also co-hosts a podcast, The Hidden Curriculum with Sebastian Tello-Trillo. The Hidden Curriculum aims to cover topics relevant to a (mostly applied) researcher's life with a focus on things that are not formally taught in graduate school. If you have an idea for an episode, guest, or would like to be a guest, please let Tello-Trillo or Hollingsworth know.



Highlights

  • 40 for 40 Fellowship recipient, APPAM (2018)

Selected Works

  • “The Effect of Leaded Gasoline on Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Regulatory Exemptions,” (with Ivan Rudik), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13 (3): 345-73, (2021)
  • “The health consequences of excess emissions: Evidence from Texas,” (with David Konisky and Nikos Zirogiannis), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 108 (102449) (2021)
  • “Can policy affect initiation of addictive substance use? Evidence from opioid prescribing,” (with Dan Sacks, Thuy Nguyen, and Kosali Simon), Journal of Health Economics, Volume 76. 102397 (2021)
  • “Changes in Opioid-Related Hospital Use with Expansion of Medicaid,” (with Hefei Wen, Aparna Soni, Seth Freedman, Joe Benitez, Kosali Simon, and Brendan Saloner), JAMA: Internal Medicine, 180 (5): 1-7 (2020)
  • “External Impacts of Local Energy Policy: The Case of Renewable Portfolio Standards,” (with Ivan Rudik), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 6 (1) 187-213, (2019)
  • “Macroeconomic Conditions and Opioid Abuse,” (with Christopher J. Ruhm and Kosali Simon), Journal of Health Economics, Volume 56, 222-233 (2017) (Earlier version released as NBER Working Paper No. 23192)

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