Absolutely flabbergasting #EconSky

Almost 40% cuts to UK foreign aid. It’s hard to express how sad and disappointed I am by this. We should be stepping up to help cover the USAID shortfall, not doing the same thing

Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357

Please give me examples of great papers using the IPUMS-DHS data to inspire my MSc students! (Also any tips for working with these data as an instructor…)

Production of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy continues to power the Danish economy—since late 2021, Danish GDP growth has been 3.6%, but it would have been 0% without the contribution of rapid pharmaceutical manufacturing growth

I was asked to write on a topic that Tom McGuire is a world expert in. Tom is retired. Wasn’t on my dissertation committee. Never coauthored with him. He was traveling across the world when I emailed him. “Comments on this draft pls? Due in 48 hrs”. Detailed, incisive comments came back next day.

I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.

The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.

A stat I will tell anyone who will listen: the number of people who are uninsured but *eligible for Medicaid* (7.4M in 2021) is more than three times as large as the number of people in the failure-to-expand Medicaid gap (1.9M in 2021) That's administrative burdens, not lack of affordability

The 2023 state of the climate report: it's fucked academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada. “I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou. Read more: