The ASHEcon Program Chair Award recognizes an exceptional abstract in each conference program area. Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Program Area	Abstract Title	Authors
Alcohol, Tobacco, Sugar and Illegal Substances	Excessive Sugar Intake in-Utero and in Early Childhood Leads to Earlier Onset of Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension	Tadeja Gracner, Claire Boone, and Paul Gertler
Climate/Pollution/Environmental & Health	Saving Lives with Cooking Gas? Unintended Effects of Targeted LPG Subsidies in Peru	Thomas Thivillon
Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors	How Does Rising Health Care Spending in the US Impact Labor Markets and Mortality? Evidence from Hospital Mergers	Zack Cooper, Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, Stuart V. Craig, Lev Klarnet Klarnet, and Ithai Lurie
Consumer Decision Making in Healthcare	What’s in a Bill? a Model of Imperfect Moral Hazard in Healthcare	Alex Hoagland, David Anderson, and Ed Zhu
Crime and Health	Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers	Adam Soliman
Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance	Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansions on Disparities in Birth Outcomes of Non-Hispanic Black and Non-Hispanic White Mothers By Marital Status	Joanne Constantin and George L. Wehby
Health & Development	Paid Work for Women and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the Rwandan Coffee Mills	Deniz Sanin
Health Equity	Bridging the Digital Divide: Do Community Center or Home-Based Telemedicine Delivery Models Offer More Equitable Access to Care?	Paul George
Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy	Minimum Wage Laws and the Design and Provision of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance	Mark Meiselbach and Jean Abraham
Long Term Care, Aging and Demography	Effects of Essential Caregiver Policies on COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes	Mingyu Qi, Nadia Ghazali, and R. Tamara Konetzka
Maternal, Child, Sexual, and Reproductive Health	The Effects of Residential Segregation on Infant Health	Tiffany Green, Hoa Vu, and Laura Swan
Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training, and Behavior	How Power Shapes Behavior: Evidence from Physicians	Manasvini Singh and Stephen Schwab
Prescription Drugs	Evidence of Excessive Pricing of Pharmaceutical Ingredients for Medicines Speculatively Repurposed As COVID-19 Therapeutics	Melissa Barber