Assistant Professor @HarvardHPM researching how public policy impacts the lives of people with disabilities, their families and those who support them.
Cambridge, MA
Joined August 2008
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If this was true, the US would have a better train system.
Gasps in the crowd as RFK jr reveals he’s just seen data that puts the autism rate near 20% @TMZ
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Temple Israel released photos of the devastation from last week’s attack. It’s hard to look at these photos and not feel like it could have easily been my synagogue instead — an attack on any Jewish community is an attack on all of us.
Support rebuilding: temple-israel.org/home.html?…
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As a kid, when I used to travel to Europe, I remember being shocked at the security outside every single synagogue. Men with huge machine guns, often requiring pre -registration from tourists to attend services, a passport, etc. It felt so foreign, so unreal. So over the top. I get it now.
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Although nearly 8 million Americans use Medicaid home and community-based services for long-term support, there is more to learn about the best ways to finance and deliver this care, from Jacob M. Sims Speyer, @aneeman, Norma B. Coe, and Ellen Meara nber.org/papers/w34701
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The authors of a new Perspective argue that autism research programs should focus on both causes and effective services and supports. Alarmist claims, chasing of debunked theories of causation, and further stigmatizing autism are counterproductive. Read the Perspective by Tara Eicher, PhD, John Quackenbush, PhD (@johnquackenbush), and Ari Ne’eman, PhD (@aneeman): nej.md/4a5QRA4
ALT Perspective "An imagined epidemic necessitates an imagined cause, which has led the administration to pursue questionable sources of environmental causation while ignoring other, well-established contributory factors." "Challenging Claims of an Autism Epidemic — Misconceptions and a Path Forward" by Tara Eicher, Ph.D., John Quackenbush, Ph.D., and Ari Ne’eman, Ph.D.
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Essential article today - by @SigridRausing:
‘Antisemitism is infecting human rights groups — my charity had to act’
thetimes.com/article/c7760ae…
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A pleasant read for your holidays, about the experience of receiving the opposite of a terminal diagnosis.
People born with CF the same year as me (1992) lived to a median age of 31. Now the median age of death is over 65.
I found this feature from @sarahzhang on CF profoundly moving theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Ari Ne'eman retweeted
"More than 100,000 people in the US are in need of a transplant, and each year thousands die waiting. But despite the shortage of organs, some American hospitals are aggressively courting international transplant patients, a NYT investigation found."
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Ari Ne'eman retweeted
A very interesting 🧵 about the politics and history of how we define developmental disability.
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This is a FASCINATING thread by Ari (whose book I am still waiting patiently be published). As someone with CP, I was surprised to learn that CP has been considered a DD from the beginning.
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The Trump administration’s Soviet approach to autism policy: skewing the data to fit a political agenda isn't helpful. statnews.com/2025/09/30/rfk-… via @statnews @aneeman
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Work requirement would go all the up to age 65, allows up to a year lookback, and if you lose Medicaid, you can't get an ACA premium subsidy to buy an ACA plan. Locked out.
Republicans Pass Strictest Medicaid Work Requirement They Have Ever Put Forward nytimes.com/2025/05/22/upsho…
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It is scary being an American Jew right now. We go to synagogues that are fortified with armed guards and police. Kids go to schools that have layers of security. Campuses and cities are filled with antisemitism. This isn't the world I grew up in. It's disgusting and disheartening. And I don't know how it will end.
BREAKING: Two staff members of the Israeli embassy who were shot and killed Wednesday evening in Washington have been identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim by the Israel's foreign minister. apnews.com/article/israel-em…
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There is a direct line between demonizing Israel, tolerating antisemitic hate speech in the public square, and violent action. We are now witnessing the deadly consequences of months of relentless antisemitic incitement—amplified by international organizations and political leaders across the globe—since the horrors of October 7. This is not a debate over policy; it is the mainstreaming of hatred, and its consequences are measured in blood.
The Jewish community will not be silenced nor cowed. We will not retreat into the shadows. We will continue to gather proudly, to celebrate our heritage, and to defend our people—here and everywhere. We call on national and local leaders to join us in standing against this violence and reaffirming that antisemitism, in all its forms, has no place in the United States of America.
Conference of Presidents Statement: From Incitement to Murder: Antisemitic Attack Murders Two at Jewish Heritage Event for Young Diplomats in Washington.
conferenceofpresidents.org/p…
Ari Ne'eman retweeted
Some familiar but still-necessary points in here from my friend @aneeman and others:
ALT In general, Ne’eman thinks that “the average autistic person, as well as the average family member, doesn’t wake up in the morning thinking, ‘Have they found a better mouse model?’” They do think about whether they’ll be able to find a full-time caretaker who is covered by insurance, or what the newest adaptive communication devices will be capable of. When autistic self-advocates were largely excluded from the decision-making process, funding for things that would help them immediately, like communication assistance or housing support, fell by the wayside.
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(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...
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a great resource for folks doing health politics!
In preparing for the job market I recently wrote a draft syllabus for a proposed course on the Politics of Disability. Sharing it here in case its of interest to others - would love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hope it helps!
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Partha Deb, Jeff Wooldridge @jmwooldridge , Jeff Zabel, and I are pleased that our new difference-in-differences paper is available as an NBER working paper.
Estimating treatment effects in difference-in-differences designs in which the treatment start is staggered over time and effects are heterogeneous by group, time, and covariates, and when the data are repeated cross-sections, from Partha Deb, @healtheconnort1, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, and Jeffrey E. Zabel nber.org/papers/w33026
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Great piece by Stephen Nuñez about SSI. Crucial program, but lots of harsh $ rules recipients must abide by.
If there’s a benefit program in need of reform/enhancements, this would be it.
Launched 50 years ago, SSI was supposed to ensure older/disabled people would never have to “subsist on below-poverty incomes.” Yet the *maximum* benefit level is just 75% of the poverty line. More than 50% of recipients live in poverty. That’s a choice.
firesidestacks.com/p/50-year…
