Professor of Economics @WashUOlin & School of Public Health
Joined February 2009
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
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With a 10th place finish in the 1500m (3:38.91) , Brendan Herger earns Second Team All-America honors! #GoBlue〽️
ALT Brendan Herger earns Second Team All-America honors in the 1500m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships
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Strongly recommend this piece by Jessie Shapiro on HBR about the mentoring program he has been running at HBS since his arrival. It has been transformational for our junior faculty, and it's helpful for others too.
hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-m…
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
Jun 8
NBER should make economists post their replication data with the working papers, before they do damage.
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Ticket Punched! 🎟️
Brendan Herger is heading to Eugene for the second straight year! #GoBlue〽️
ALT Brendan Herger qualifies for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1500m.
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May 28
Hope this practice spreads to economics and health policy as well
wsj.com/opinion/a-way-to-cha…
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May 26
Dialysis facility closures outpaced openings in 2024 — I lay out the economics of why this is happening
healio.com/news/nephrology/2…
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Featured in the latest Digest: Price Competition and Fraud Among Medicare Equipment Suppliers
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
May 20
Congratulations to my colleague @jetson_econ for being named one of the Best 40 Under 40 business school professors!
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
May 20
If you use fake citations in your paper, you will get one year arrival ban.
If you use fake data in your paper, you will get tenure at Harvard Business School.
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Andrew Bursky and his wife pledged $200 million through their family foundation to name a newly created school of public health at Washington University in St. Louis. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
May 8
Many university administrations in the US are in denial. They are shrinking faculty size and adding new layers of administration. The AI Era requires precisely the opposite.
May 8
A surprising number of people refuse to understand that idealized Oxbridge-style teaching and exams are incompatible with the mass higher ed that Americans invented and now take for granted.
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
Among traditional #Medicare beneficiaries, private equity acquisition of primary care practices was not associated with changes in all-cause or preventable hospitalizations, but modestly reduced emergency department visits.
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ALT Graph: Differential Change in Hierarchical Condition Category Score, Private Equity (PE) and Matched Controls, 2016 to 2022. X axis: Quarters relative to acquisition (-6 to 6). Y axis: Coefficient (-0.02 to 0.02). Shows pretrend and treatment effects.
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
May 7
Let's be clear that the best and worst skill of economists is that absolutely nothing, including donor money, changes our minds.
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These data are flawed and incomplete. Better to use the validated, comprehensive dataset from @sungilkim94 et al. here:
academic.oup.com/healthaffai…
github.com/sungilkim94/Kim-P…
Several replications currently in the works —@ambarlaforgia and I highlight some of the major flaws in the current literature here:
journalofethics.ama-assn.org…
Find out which hospitals in the US are owned by private equity here: pestakeholder.org/pesp-priva…
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
Watch Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 run 1:59:30 to destroy the Marathon World Record in London!!🤯🔥
First man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon.
2. Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 1:59:41
3. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 2:00:28
All under the previous World Record.
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
Apr 25
@UMichTrack earns the College Track Performance of the Day presented by @on_running after shattering one of the oldest meet records in their Men’s 4x800 Championship of America victory 😤
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Ryan McDevitt retweeted
Brendan Herger cracks the top-10 all-time NCAA performers list in the 1500m and he’s only a sophomore! 🤯 #GoBlue〽️
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Investigating how the gender mix of expert teams affects performance during childbirth care finds that female-only teams achieved the best maternal outcomes, from @ambarlaforgia and @vini_singh_ nber.org/papers/w35084
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