Alex Hollingsworth is an associate professor at The Ohio State University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a co-editor at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and an editor at the Journal of Health Economics. Hollingsworth is an applied microeconomist with interests in health and environmental economics. His research has been published in outlets including the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Journal of Public Economics. He also co-hosts a podcast, The Hidden Curriculum with Sebastian Tello-Trillo. The Hidden Curriculum aims to cover topics relevant to academic life with a focus on things that are not formally taught in graduate school.

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Black family in a hospital room in the 1920s
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Investments in hospital infrastructure reduced mortality in the US South

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