Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

Check out this interview with LDI Fellow @davidpowell.bsky.social on the Health Affairs "A Health Podyssey" podcast!

Why did that happen, what does it tell us, and what can we do next? That’s what my forthcoming book, The Wage Standard, is about: how rules, norms, and power in the labor market shape who shares in growth. Coming out March 31. Pre-order here: www.thewagestandard.com

@caitlinpatler.bsky.social (@goldmanschool.bsky.social) is the lead author of an amicus brief co-signed by 140 scholars and submitted to SCOTUS in its consideration of birthright citizenship. Patler's research explores how citizenship and legal status shape mobility. Connect with Patler:

There's a tweet going around correctly pointing out the worst of economics (and economists). But here's the best of it. Humane, revealing, empathetic without sacrificing rigor.

🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain...

"Frog," said Toad, "what if there was more to economics than diff-in-diffs?"

At this point anyone who thinks #privateequity is net good for #health and #healthcare is on a potent kind of #crack. Seeing more and more patients kicked out of #dialysis centers and left with few options outside of coming into the ER every few days. #PE owned HD has a low bar to kick people out.

Pet peeve: un-self-aware academic junket culture. We spend $2000 to attend conferences where 75% of speakers rail against American inequality, while we splurge on $75 dinners, stay in $300/night hotel rooms, and take a $50 uber ride to avoid a 3-stop subway ride that would cost $2.50.

🚨 Check out our brand new #website 🚨 Redesigned with fresh, easy to access summaries of our work! Interested in our missing of "advancing $health by expanding #opportunity and #hope"? Read on! opportunityforhealth.org

Awwww. When we were kids my cousins and I used to make up awards to make each other feel better.

Check out @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social's new website! This is a group using cutting-edge research to explore and improve economic opportunity and health outcomes for all Americans. opportunityforhealth.org

🧵A thread on "AI one-shot papers". This has not been a focus on Bluesky, but on Twitter/X and LinkedIn, there has been a large discussion of the ability to "one-shot" policy evaluation, which David Yanagizawa-Drott has been pursuing in an interesting way: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

Sometimes I do studies purely out of intellectual curiosity. Other times I do studies because I see a gap and I truly want to improve care. Both should be acceptable! Let nerds be nerds!

Wow - I didn't expect this to get so much attention. I really appreciate you all sharing your stories like this. Our health care system is a mess. Thankful to all of you who are trying to fix it.

🚨@oppforhealthlab.bsky.social has a new website!!🚨 Fully redesigned, and full of helpful summaries of our work and associated resources. Our mission: "Advancing health by expanding opportunity and hope." Find out how: opportunityforhealth.org

On clinical service. Have had more uninsured patients than usual. One coming in with a heart attack and the other with diabetic ketoacidosis. Neither had regular care and all of this was preventable had their hypertension and diabetes been caught in time. We are in bad shape.

Ok folks: have at it

I have seen very few movies this year so I can't really judge the oscars, but one of the movies I did see was Sinners, and its portrayal of the Jim Crow economy is the film's driving force, even more than its supernatural elements www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Yup, this. You cannot demand R01s as the standard for promotion when they aren’t being awarded.

This is awful. Related, I hope universities move quickly to decouple career progression from R01s or expand what constituted an "R01e" Always felt that was a silly model and it's basically unworkable of this continues.

I got a helpful set of reviews at a top 5 as part of a kind rejection. I'm really impressed at how deeply the referees thought about the paper. It has been a good experience. Although I wonder now if the referees think I'm an idiot! You are never too old in this business to have self doubt!

4,600 papers and we know so little. These are the incentives we have in science. Get ready for supercharged production of crap thanks to #AI!

I've been reading a great deal about current and potential impacts of AI on labor markets. Just published: a 2-page overview of frameworks for thinking about this: www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

I'm not a degrowth person. But do we really NEED #AI? Is it actually going to improve our well-being? I am reading all the #AI in #science, #health, #labormarkets stuff. I think we are taking a wrong turn. At least we aren't stopping to question what kind of turn we are taking.

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Our work in NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

On Tuesday, March 10, join @budgetlab.bsky.social, @hamiltonproject.org, and @piie.com for an event on AI’s impact on the labor market. RSVP to watch in-person or online:

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Current allocations under the Rural Health Transformation Program are inversely associated with rural mortality and hospital bed losses, indicating that funding may not reflect clinical need. ja.ma/3OWHk6n

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week. We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!). Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY 1/7

My new article in @jhppl.bsky.social situates the current attacks on public health in a historical perspective. What I found surprised me. We've seen this before, and it's not as unprecedented as it feels. Thanks to @sarahgollust.bsky.social @oberlanderunc.bsky.social for editing! Read free below.

You can 100% do high-quality, controlled research about patients’ perceived mistreatment in healthcare. In fact, we should. It’s a major barrier to keeping all Americans healthy. Watch Dr. Green’s video!

The #income-#health gradient among working-age adults in the United States in areas with high vs. low economic opportunity @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social

Great new paper in The Review of Economic Studies using randomized incentives to detect non-response bias, using administrative data to provide ground truth for comparison. While incentives increased participation, they didn't reliably reduce NR bias academic.oup.com/restud/advan...

Time to repost some causality memes #IdentificationK9

This is old school good politics. Clear the garbage. Clear the snow. Make like easier.

Here is my entry for the #BirdWhisperer February 2026 art challenge. These two black-cheeked lovebirds found only in South-west Zambia are classified as vulnerable due to loss of habitat. #art #watercolour #painting #sketch #drawnfreehand #lovebirds #birds #birdlover #africanbirds #nature

Congratulations to Charles Manski on winning the BBVA Frontiers Award for his foundational contributions to partial identification, semiparametric methods, subjective expectations, social interactions and policy decision-making under uncertainty www.premiosfronterasdelconocimiento.es/noticias/xvi...

"Holiday card" - study and final.

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

Also, please share for visibility!

My Substack: AI-integrated research; a novel tradeoff and partial solution (part 1 of n) open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...

I unironically love this so much. Our sketchbooks look a lot like this. We discovered that we’re a #didsystem quite recently, and lately we’ve been relearning how to enjoy #art —together. The littles love to come out & make #messyart, and the bigs are learning to find beauty in the chaos. #plural

My daughter is also a painter, she’s 8 and loved his and asked me to share one of hers

The best piece of contemporary art I’ve seen in a while. Honestly and literally.

"On the Brooklyn Bridge" by my 7 year old and me.