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Michael Pesko

@mikepesko.bsky.social
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Mizzou Econ Prof | Health Economist | PI of NIH lab on #tobacco & #audiology | Director of TOPS (@tobaccopolicy.org) | Fellow IZA | Guiding impactful, high-quality research. #EconSky

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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got a review request from a medical journal and noticed this interesting note: “We welcome your collaboration with a junior scholar on the review as long as you maintain oversight of the quality and substance of the review. Please acknowledge any collaborator when submitting your review.”
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New cross-sectional database linking tobacco specialty stores to foot traffic. Also, follow @socialimpactlab.bsky.social for regular updates on the interesting research happening in our lab.
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Social Impact Lab @socialimpactlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@clowenstein.bsky.social Austin Landini & @mikepesko.bksy.social combined Google Maps listings with real visitor-count data to build a national database of specialty tobacco retailers — vape shops, smoke shops, cigar shops — and where people actually go. ~20,000 stores. ~50 million monthly visits.🧵
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#ASHEcon26 underway in Minneapolis! Group dinner at Hell's Kitchen. @SocialImpactLab @ashecon.bsky.social
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Great program for motivated researchers that could benefit from easier, structured opportunities to discuss early-stage research.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
TOPS Summer 2026 seminar series is live. Excellent lineup covering flavored product restrictions, T21 impacts, ad bans, nicotine pouches, and policy equity. Fridays 2–3pm ET, starting May 15. Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See many of you there!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · 05/05/2026
Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2... 👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
TOPS Summer 2026 seminar series is live. Excellent lineup covering flavored product restrictions, T21 impacts, ad bans, nicotine pouches, and policy equity. Fridays 2–3pm ET, starting May 15. Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See many of you there!
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Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: https://t.co/8mzJUuIJB4 👉Join our email list: https://t.co/hJzV5ZPn6N https://t.co/IpsJk5Jk9k
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Renaming EVALI to reflect that nicotine e-cigs were not the cause remains critically important. I am hopeful that with Jay Bhattacharya at the helm at CDC, our 2021 petition signed by 75 experts will be given a second look and this scientific misclassification corrected.
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ajhejournal.bsky.social @ajhejournal.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
New paper! @mikepesko.bsky.social & @rachelylfung.bsky.social find no meaningful evidence that e-cigs crowd out NRT sales, cessation prescriptions, quitline calls,or smoking quit attempts, suggesting e-cigs reach smokers not interested in quitting otherwise. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Erdal Tekin @erdaltekin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy to announce the program for the 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, to be held in Cagliari, 🇮🇹 on July 8–9, 2026. Grateful to @au-spa.bsky.social for serving as the main organizer & sponsor, and my local partners—Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, & Marco N. Nieddu—for their support.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I recommend completing your taxes up to the point of submitting, then running through ChatGPT. It saved me a few hundred dollars. You can buy a lot of beer with a few hundred dollars.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Societies with generous social security net systems may survive (and thrive) in this new AI world, whereas countries without them may sputter. thehill.com/opinion/fina...
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Excited for my co-author and @MizzouEcon graduate student Guthrie Scoblic to present exciting new work on cigar taxation. Hope you will be able to join us; registration is free.
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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · 22/01/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Dana Mowls Carroll of @umnsph.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Best Presentation Award (Top of the TOPS!) for her presentation on the public health implications of very low nicotine cigarettes.🥳 Missed her presentation? It's available here: tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.htm...
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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · 11/12/2025
🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, December 12 2pm ET ➡️"The effects of state-level flavored electronic cigarette restrictions on adult tobacco use using multilevel modeling: Findings from the PATH Study Waves 5 & 7" ➡️John Kingsbury from the National Institute of Drug Abuse 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I am organizing a session on hearing healthcare for the @ashecon.bsky.social conference in Minneapolis this summer. RE: discussants, would anybody organizing a session on a related topic be interested in having our presenters discuss for each other's session? If so, DM me.
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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · 25/11/2025
Check out the TOPS website for the video recording 📹from last week's presentation by Bingjin Xue on "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulations on Birth Outcomes".
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thought-provoking: “I would argue antismoking campaigns were too effective [...] that paved the way for vaping. When vaping became uncool, it paved the path for cigarettes.” www.wsj.com/health/cigar...
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Celebrities Are Making Smoking Cigarettes Cool Again
Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For those in the early stages of their careers—who have not yet served on an NIH study section or held an R01-equivalent PI role—register as an Early Career Reviewer. More information is available on the CSR website: public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers...
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Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program | NIH Center for Scientific Review
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
There are about 20 pop-level natural experiment-style studies of e-cig regulation on smoking, most of which find e-cig regulation increases smoking.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Your disrespect isn't cool. There is no place in academia for that. Like we told you at the time, have a qualifying co-author submit the work and it will be fairly considered based on its merits, just like any other submission.
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Thomas Wilk @thomaswilk-econ.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#ASHEcon2026 I am organizing 2 sessions for conference in Minneapolis, MN June 7-10. Looking for abstracts: 1) policy revolving around marijuana and alcohol use or co-use of illicit drugs 2) policy food/nutritional changes from drug decriminalization/legalization, or other impactful policy.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I looked at the position paper you referenced. I don't believe it engages a single quasi-experimental study for the conclusions reached. Systematic reviews of the quasi-experimental evidence show the opposite conclusion: e-cigarettes displace smoking.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
There are hundreds of longitudinal studies showing what we’d expect: e-cigarettes harm some people and help others. The key question is the net effect.
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JAMA Health Forum @jamahealthforum.com · 21/10/2025
💬 Viewpoint: Innovations like e-cigarettes provide rapid nicotine delivery with reduced health risks compared to cigarettes, yet misinformation and regulatory barriers limit their impact on smoking-related disease. ja.ma/3KStQGV
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
New Viewpoint in @jamahealthforum.com with @jhb19.bsky.social, Benowitz, and @rachelylfung.bsky.social. We argue e-cigs are not a radical break, but a predictable technological step in a long history of people seeking rapid nicotine delivery with less harm. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3
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E-Cigarettes in Historical Context
This Viewpoint discusses the potential for e-cigarettes to displace smoking, restrictive regulations, and public misperceptions amid enduring nicotine demand and persistent smoking-related disease.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Anybody else seeing evidence of recent #inflation? My small observation is #Publix yogurt cups went up from $0.50 (already high in my opinion) to $0.60 overnight. 1/6
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New TOPS season just announced; kick-off is Oct. 24. Register for free today. #tobacco #nicotine
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
My co-author Rachel Fung is presenting an awesome paper tomorrow at 2 PM New York time on early 20th century cigarette prohibition laws in the USA! #History buffs, get your popcorn out. Registration is free; see you there.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Submit your research with #tobacco policy implications to TOPS by Monday for consideration in the next TOPS season. We accept presentations from graduate students on through professors; from working papers through published papers.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We recently published a paper in @jamaotolaryngology.com that studies labor supply for #audiology. We find hearing healthcare is difficult to access: 75.0% of USA counties were classified as shortage counties. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @ashaadvocacy.bsky.social
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Using Supply and Demand to Identify Shortages in the Hearing Health Care Professional Workforce
This quality improvement study measures the US hearing health care professional workforce from 2012 to 2022 and identifies areas experiencing shortages in 2019.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Enjoyed the @socialimpactlab.bsky.social welcome dinner + #karaoke night for @mizzouecon.bsky.social graduate students and post-docs. Excited for the academic year ahead and for a great new cohort of students! #EconSky
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Very cool that TOPS just celebrated its 5-year birthday. It's been fun being part of organizing team.
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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · 04/09/2025
🎉The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar turns 5 today! 🎉 Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health. Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New paper alert! We use claims data to find that paid sick leave mandates in the USA increased a wide array of different healthcare visits, particularly for individuals in industries with low PSL coverage historically, and along the extensive margin of any visit. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Health care utilization following the adoption of U.S. paid sick leave mandates: a cohort study using health insurance claims data
The U.S. is one of the only developed countries in the world without a federal requirement that employers provide paid sick leave (PSL) to workers. We…
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Awesome dinner and music with colleagues at #ASHEcon2025 #Nashville.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Another amazing TOPS season announced today, which includes researchers from NZ, UK, Canada, and Switzerland. We also have a panel of two researchers with similar papers and reaching different conclusions! Registration is free, hope to see you starting 5 PM ET this Thursday.
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Not too late to apply for the next TOPS season. Abstracts / papers are due by midnight on Monday. Send us your work!
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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · 25/03/2025
Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters: ✅exposure among a diverse global audience (avg 164 attendees!) ✅helpful feedback from audience comments ✅opportunities to network 👉 tobaccopolicy.org/call.html 🗓️Deadline: 4/7
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Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v
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Christian Saenz @chrissaenz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What are the mortality effects of FDA drug regulation? @mikepesko.bsky.social and I explore this using a unique natural experiment—e-cigarettes unexpectedly escaping #FDA drug regulation in 2010. The results may surprise you. 🧵 bit.ly/42w4xkG #EconSky #EpiSky #NIH #ecig #EconTwitter #EpiTwitter
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Important rally! Looking forward to it!
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to accept a term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics. I plan to use the position to advocate for thoughtful ways to protect and expand data access for the research community. #HealthPolicy #DataScience #HealthEcon
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to accept a term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics. I plan to use the position to advocate for thoughtful ways to protect and expand data access for the research community. #HealthPolicy #DataScience #HealthEcon
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