Health and Labor Economist, @UBuffaloEcon @SUNY. Aspires to draw his graphs on the board perfectly, every time.
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Mar 31
We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 32nd Annual #NIHCMAwards in Health Care Journalism and Policy Research! Join us in congratulating these journalists and researchers and learn more about their impactful work here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026AwardFinalis…
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Easy for most who are saying it wasn't worth it for him to try to save all these cars. But do you have any idea how much all these exotic autos he saved are worth in total???
It's like 3 to 4 Stata MP 8-core licenses!
May 14
Dutch dealer Oscar Gräper drove 10-15 luxury cars (Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Audis, Mercedes) out of his Moordrecht dealership one by one after a fire started in the neighboring building, ignoring orders from police and firefighters who eventually pepper-sprayed and handcuffed him
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Apr 29
There is currently a Bull on the loose on the University of Illinois campus.
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The owner of this account got official notice he’d been promoted to full professor last night.
I’m not telling you to brag or celebrate, but to humbly notify that there’s probably some sort of RD design that can be put to work here.
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Apr 29
Congratulations to NIHCMs 32 Annual Policy Research Award Winners @GottliebEcon, @MariaAPolyakova, Kevin Rinz, Hugh Shiplett, and @UdalovaVictoria for their piece “The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians” published in @QJEHarvard! Learn more here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026PRAWinner
@UChicago @Stanford @federalreserve @uscensusbureau
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In my view, the vast weight of the evidence suggests it is either no effect or a relatively small one in the medium term. The IRS study provides *some* movement of the prior towards a view of an effect, but its evidence is fairly weak in comparison to that of RAND and OHIE.
Apr 28
There's been a slew of studies in last decade using quasi-experimental methods — and one experimental study from the IRS! — that have confirmed that gaining coverage affects mortality. But really worth pointing out how utterly bizarre it would be if that *weren't* true —
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And this is definitely not true. OHIE showed uninsured actually receive a lot of care. This is also why they find Medicaid recipients place surprisingly low value on their Medicaid coverage.
x.com/awgaffney/status/20491…
Apr 28
There's zero debate that the uninsured get very little healthcare. How could it be that zero care had no impact on health? It would suggest that modern medical care is basically ineffective & we might as well go back to leeches, close the hospitals, cancel all doctors, etc.
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Congratulations to all the finalists! They are an impressive group I feel proud to be a part of.
@UBuffalo
Mar 31
Congratulations to our Policy Research finalists! Published in @JHealthEcon @NEJM @QJEHarvard @AEAjournals @JPubEcon, these researchers cover a wide range of topics including physician staffing shortages, drug coverage reductions among Medicare beneficiaries, cancer-drug marketing, the costs of uninsurance, and physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers. Learn more here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026PRAFinalists
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Mar 31
Congratulations to our Policy Research finalists! Published in @JHealthEcon @NEJM @QJEHarvard @AEAjournals @JPubEcon, these researchers cover a wide range of topics including physician staffing shortages, drug coverage reductions among Medicare beneficiaries, cancer-drug marketing, the costs of uninsurance, and physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers. Learn more here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026PRAFinalists
#NIHCMAwardsPolicyResearch
@ScottBarkowski @UBuffaloEcon @eric_t_roberts @PennLDI @Harvard @HarvardChanSPH @UniversityofSo5 @GottliebEcon @MariaAPolyakova @UdalovaVictoria @UChicago @Stanford @federalreserve @uscensusbureau Mark Shepard Myles Wagner @Kennedy_School @OhioState Colleen Carey Michael Daly @JingLiUW @Cornell @UW @CM_Whaley @XiaoxiZhao_econ @BrownUniversity @uofl @BethMunnich Michael Richards
Mar 31
Announcing the finalists for #NIHCMs 32nd Annual Policy Research Award. Many thanks to our independent panel of judges and congratulations to our finalists! Read more about their outstanding work here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026PRAFinalists
#NICHMAwardsPolicyResearch
@JHealthEcon @NEJM @QJEHarvard @AEAjournals @JPubEcon
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Mar 31
We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 32nd Annual #NIHCMAwards in Health Care Journalism and Policy Research! Join us in congratulating these journalists and researchers and learn more about their impactful work here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026AwardFinalis…
#NIHCMAwardsJournalism #NIHCMAwardsPolicyResearch
@toledonews @investigatewest @PhillyInquirer @DispatchAlerts @inewsource @BostonGlobe @chicagotribune @SpotlightPA @dallasnews @MSTODAYnews @sfchronicle @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience @FierceHealth @sciam @TheCancerLetter @BGOV @cenmag @endpts @Medscape @guardian @KFFHealthNews @nytimes @NPR @business @LeverNews @washingtonpost @statnews @kare11 @HBO @PBS @GBH @whyy @WHYYThePulse @JHealthEcon @NEJM @QJEHarvard @AEAjournals @JPubEcon
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Mar 31
Announcing the finalists for #NIHCMs 32nd Annual Policy Research Award. Many thanks to our independent panel of judges and congratulations to our finalists! Read more about their outstanding work here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026PRAFinalists
#NICHMAwardsPolicyResearch
@JHealthEcon @NEJM @QJEHarvard @AEAjournals @JPubEcon
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My idea to combat tanking in the @NBA: use the salary cap system. Give teams at the bottom of the conferences cap space boosts that increase with wins. This counteracts the incentive to tank and gives teams an alternative path to build their teams that doesn't resort to losing...
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Further, distribute revenue sharing in proportion to the cap space boosts. This is better than making the odds in the draft the same for everyone because it still helps bad teams to get better.
More on this idea here: sites.google.com/site/sbarko…
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Columbia’s rank seems too low. Before 1940 it was arguably 1 of the 2 most important USA depts with Harvard. Home of the institutional school. Friedman got his PhD there, Becker arguably did his most important work there. Stigler was there. Do all get credited to Chicago?
Feb 24
Which modern economics department is most represented in history of economic thought textbooks? As measured by page mentions as percentage of total pages of over 70 HOET textbooks, published between 1901 and 2022, looking only at pre-2000 Nobel Prize winners, Chicago. All Souls College (Hicks) and George Mason University (Buchanan) punch above their weight.
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What about Ken Arrow and Kuznets, who got their PhDs there? Does Columbia get “credit” for them at all?
Classification is clearly important here.
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Which modern economics department is most represented in history of economic thought textbooks? As measured by page mentions as percentage of total pages of over 70 HOET textbooks, published between 1901 and 2022, looking only at pre-2000 Nobel Prize winners, Chicago. All Souls College (Hicks) and George Mason University (Buchanan) punch above their weight.
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