Had a claim denied by Aetna but joke’s on them because I’m a health economist on furlough. Bet they’ve never seen an appeal with a “methods” section before.

Time to see my PCP (primary care pastry)

"Forgive me father, for I have put ketchup on a hot dog"

A Chicago Pope means we're getting deep dish communion wafers!

A nice by-product of tariff discourse has been discovering one of my favorite undergrad economics professors is on this site (the incomparably brilliant @kclausing.bsky.social).

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

Hearing a lot about TikTok lately, thinking of finally downloading it and signing up for an account.

More detailed list of reconciliation policy options here from Punchbowll (h/t @zachlevin.bsky.social) punchbowl.news/reconciliati... ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback

🚨new paper alert!!!🚨 My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice! I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

It was pretty cool to meet the Big Boss, FTC Chair Khan today!

Belated annual Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake post!

Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.

One negative to this app (vs. the old one) is the quasi-LinkedIn vibe. You don’t get the absolutely hilarious, inappropriate, banger thoughts from random people shooting their mouths off about life.

As a health economist with 25+ insurance plans available to me during open enrollment, I’m almost disappointed to find myself making no changes this year. But like, why order something else off the menu when you’ve got dinosaur chicken nuggets you’re satisfied with?

I hired a research assistant over the weekend! She’s not great at Stata … much prefers aRf!

Good as Bluesky may be, it’ll never match MySpace circa 2004. Pettily adjusting my Top 8, changing the angsty profile song, and coding up a terrible background color. Life was good.