Alex Hollingsworth

Courtesy Associate Professor, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics

Associate Professor Alex Hollingsworth holds joint appointments in Ohio State’s Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics; Department of Economics; and John Glenn College of Public Affairs. 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 associate editor at the Journal of Health Economics.

Hollingsworth is an applied microeconomist who examines how regulations affect health with interests in environmental economics, population health, substance abuse and access to care. His research has been published in outlets including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; the Journal of Public Economics; and the Journal of Human Resources. His research has been covered by Scientific American, the Washington Post, CNBC, The Atlantic, VOX and the Los Angeles Times.

He also co-hosts a podcast, “The Hidden Curriculum with Sebastian Tello-Trillo,” which aims to cover topics relevant to academic life with a focus on things that are not formally taught in graduate school.

The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

American Economic Review

July 01, 2024

Alex Hollingsworth explores how access to modern hospitals and medicine affects short-run and long-run mortality.

A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Achievement

The Journal of Human Resources

November 01, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel.

Excess Emissions: Environmental Impacts, Health Effects, and Policy Debate

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

September 06, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies the need for emissions data reporting to enable creation and implementation of effective regulatory frameworks.

Simulated Power Analyses for Observational Studies: An Application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion

Journal of Public Economics

September 01, 2023

Using an applied example – the link between gaining health insurance and mortality – Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues conduct a simulated power analysis to outline the importance of power and ways to estimate power in complex research settings.

Comparative Effects of Recreational and Medical Marijuana Laws on Drug Use among Adults and Adolescents

The Journal of Law and Economics

August 01, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth's new research finds that recreational laws increase past-year marijuana use by 25 percent among adults and by 10 percent among adolescents.

Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston

Environmental Science & Technology

July 25, 2023

Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.

Contact

hollingsworth.126@osu.edu

Expertise

Health Policy and Regulation; Environmental Economics; Policy Analysis

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