Submissions for the 2026 Midwest Health Economics Conference are due 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟏. We invite submissions of full papers or extended abstracts. Conference held on Sept 24-25 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Submit a paper or volunteer as a discussant: go.gies.illinois.edu/MHEC2026

The twins have officially entered the "why?" stage and I give myself ~2 weeks before I mentally crack.

New #FEDSNote: Measuring Renters in Credit Data: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note... #EconSky

Very cool (and unexpected): my working paper on hospital billing regulations and individual financial health with Yaa Akosa Antwi and Marion Aouad is the featured working paper on the NBER website today www.nber.org

Use the SHED and want an easier way to see all the survey questions over time? Now you can! I've built a new question tracker to show the questions asked in each year of the survey at shed.jefflarrimore.com (1/2)

New #FEDSPaper: Financial Well-being and Inclusion of Justice Involved Populations: Evidence from the SHED: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds... #EconSky

Examining the financial consequences of the 2007 California Fair Pricing Law, which places a price ceiling on hospital bills for financially vulnerable individuals, from Yaa Akosa Antwi, Marion Aouad, and @nathanblascak.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35080

Twice the normal amount of good news this morning! Crossed off an academic bucket list item with my first NBER working paper (w/ Yaa Akosa Antwi and Marion Aouad) going live this morning: www.nber.org/papers/w35080 More importantly, it was just accepted at the Journal of Health Economics!

NBER Behavioral Finance conference starts now! Program and link to livestream here: conference.nber.org/c/BFs26

Update: I'm 30+ runs in now. Battled Hades x3 times, but not close to beating him. Gameplay loop is great and writing is excellent. Claude Code learning definitely lagging behind.

Week five of AI in Finance: Fraud detection and compliance • How embeddings, LLMs, and graph methods can improve fraud detection • Where AI addresses the compliance and regulatory burden • The arms race of AI advancing cybersecurity risks and defenses arpitrage.substack.com/p/finding-ne...

As in previous years, the @AtlantaFed is running a visiting program for PhD student. Come and join us for an exciting summer full of economics and fried chicken! Deadline soon: April 4th! rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS/job/Atla...

New paper! Expanding public insurance to parents benefits parents and generates spillovers to children, improving their health care utilization. The estimates highlight intergenerational effects relevant for welfare analysis. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733364 @michellemmarcus.bsky.social

Accurate representation of lying on the rug with twins

Do you have a paper on financial decision-making? Want to present research & hike? Does Bozeman in early August sound good? The Financial Decision-making Conference is Aug 6-7! Submission deadline April 20. The call for papers is here: fdmconference.pages.dev#cfp

🧵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

Probably should be learning more about Claude Code, but Hades is on Game Pass. Thanks @paulgp.com and @economeager.bsky.social.

My attempt at articulating why I think LLMs are a clear net positive for all research, and it's a mistake to ignore it despite private concerns: paulgp.com/2026/03/16/r...

Please submit, health economists, and share widely!

Has anyone yet run a head-to-head comparison of the different advice that competing AI tools offer for expecting parents and for parents of newborns, infants, and toddlers?

Updated working paper with my KC Fed Colleague Ying Lei Toh examine how past experiences with fraud affect take-up of new precautionary actions (e.g., credit report freezes) in consumer credit markets: www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/FRBP...

I’m always for more data. But, be careful using the new Medicaid spending data released by the Trump administration. It’s missing a lot of important details and context. www.kff.org/medicaid/wha...

The extremely loosely goosey nature of data governance in AI land means that use of some types of confidential data may end up being signals of true human effort. The AI assisted papers that have been demonstrated only work because data is on the open internet and already cleaned/aggregated

I'm teaching a new course at Stern on AI in Finance and opening it up! Syllabus/slides on Github: github.com/arpitrage/ai... Weekly summaries on Substack arpitrage.substack.com/p/1-three-ru... First post is on Amdahl's Law, Jevons' Paradox, and why finance was slow to learn the bitter lesson

Posted a very early stage draft with rock star collaborators. Key question: when we actually roll out AI tools, how do people use them? Do they just defer completely? Does it improve productivity and ability? We look in the medical setting of pulmonary embolisms paulgp.com/papers/Radio...

Submission deadline for the Philadelphia Fed's Mortgage Market Research Conference is January 20th. Details here: bit.ly/4mT9Ocz

There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right? With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

More on dementia & finances: similar to credit outcomes, we see declines on asset side start about 6 years before dementia onset, patterns are consistent with mistakes driving declines, not healthcare spending or spenddown

Recently published at JPAM: "Can Machine Learning Target Health Care Fraud? Evidence From Medicare Hospitalizations" by Shubhranshu Shekhar, Jetson Leder-Luis, & Leman Akoglu. doi.org/10.1002/pam....

Best video games I played in 2025: 1. Finally played Outer Wilds. 10/10 no notes, go play it without spoiling yourself. It’s like a fun Myst with sweet space physics

Continuing an annual tradition (following @paulgp.com ). A (very) short list of great games I found time to play this year:

New paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár on leniency/judge IV designs. This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572

An R&R and an acceptance on the same day...universe has a strange way of compensating for a full weekend of potty training the twins...

My paper on the consumer financial impacts of Missouri's 2005 Medicaid cut with @1armedeconomist.bsky.social and Slava Mikhed is finally out in the fall issue of AJHE: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵

ICYMI: New #FEDSPaper: Understanding Preferences for Payment Cards using Household Scanner Data: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds... #EconSky

🚨New predoc positions!🚨 Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability. One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538

The fall edition of the @ashecon.bsky.social newsletter came out last week with 6 great articles 1. @jimflynn9.bsky.social interviewed ASHEcon President-Elect @johncawley.bsky.social www.ashecon.org/activities/n... 1/7

Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market: paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...

My co-authors Sarah Shubeck (UCM) & Emily Crawford (Booth PhD student) & I have a new paper in JAMA Health Forum studying the effects of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) on insurance churn (defined as losing health insurance over the next 12 months) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

More great work from this amazing team of researchers! The collection of papers Sarah and colleagues have put out have really changed my priors.

Our workshop Econometrics at Emory: Causal Inference with Panel Data is happening May 2–3, 2025! 🎯 We are thrilled to welcome Guido Imbens as our keynote speaker. But that’s just the start. 🎙️ We have a stellar lineup of speakers from both academia and industry to talk about causal inference!

JUST IN: Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.

The 2025 Midwest Health Economics Conference will be held at Notre Dame, September 4-5. Paper submissions are due by May 15. This is a fantastic conference, you can submit your papers here: nd.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance and #Development is back! We are meeting on April 14, 28, and May 12, with great speakers. Have a look at our program & sign up for our mailing list: www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-... Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio

Since 2018, UW RDRC supported over 150 research projects, including the well-being of seniors and people with disabilities in Social Security programs (SSI, SSDI, OASI). I am proud of the training and research conducted as part of the RDRC, but without SSA as a partner, this research will stall.

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

Hi #econtwitter and #econsky, we finally made the switch! This is the official account for the Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (EHEC). Follow for our 2025 presentation schedule, out soon! And please share widely!

BRFSS data has been taken offline

My friend told me YRBS is down: www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h... Anyone running into similar issues??