The 1975 Voting Rights Act extension lowered mortality for most nonwhite groups but raised it for white adults and older nonwhite men, patterns consistent with status threat, from Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, and Christopher A. Lowenstein www.nber.org/papers/w34421

This model refers to a representative agent, but I don’t remember voting for them.

Remember, you under-use “How dare you?!” when responding to reviewer comments.

What would have happened if they never made Sliding Doors?

There should be more top 5 journals.

Conditional acceptance! I just have to write a paper that referees and an editor like!

To our knowledge, this is the first paper to ignore the prior literature.

Confused about what inference method to use? What level to cluster at? Based on a review of thousands of published empirical studies, we develop a useful heuristic: a good approximation for your standard error is your point estimate divided by 1.96.

New research alert: Medicaid covers nearly 40% of treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), but recent “unwinding” of pandemic-era enrollment protections led many to lose coverage nationwide. How did this affect life-saving buprenorphine treatment?

Do I really have to rue the day? Can I just rue a couple hours?

Pro tip: If the journal has space constraints, replace “unintended consequences” with “whoopsies.”

My front-of-the-envelope estimate is that it costs 78 cents to mail a letter.

You get more positive reviews if you call it warm and fuzzy regression discontinuity.

A true labor economist uses Labor Day as a negative shock to labor.

The optimal number of times saying, “The optimal number of [terrible thing] is not zero” is zero.

Quick tip: if your paper status says “Pending Decision,” it’s likely to be positive. If it’s likely to be negative, it’ll say “Impending Decision.”

Lowering drug prices by 1500% is just hyperbolic discounting.

A triple-blind study where you also don’t tell the readers which was the treatment arm.

The replication package is your opportunity to add snarky comments throughout your code about your reviewers.

I wish there were a word that paid homage to the silent h.

You just think raisins are healthy since they’re disgusting.

I recommend constructing a file called omitted_variables.dta so when a reviewer asks about omitted variable bias, you can just merge it into your dataset.

The concept of opportunity cost is so important that I don’t understand why we don’t dedicate six years of graduate school solely to learn about it.

Stop asking what the counterfactual is and start doing whatever else it is that you could do instead.

GDP is such a flawed measure. Why does it only count gross stuff? What about countries that make a lot of non-gross stuff?

I don’t think people without kids understand how many songs there are about going to the bathroom.

Sometimes I wonder if there’s more to life than spending all day preparing for a virtual meeting which gets cancelled five minutes before it starts.

When I was a kid: wait one hour after eating before swimming Kids now: try not to eat in the pool

At that sweet spot in life where I can recognize that the motivation used by peloton instructors to get you through a tough interval (“You can do hard things”) is the exact same as the one Ms. Rachel uses to encourage toddlers to poop in a potty.

Teaching my kids about cause and effect. And how it requires an RCT. Otherwise you need to call it an association and highlight that you can’t declare the relationship causal.

What produces the best crop yields? Evidence from a field experiment

Stop calling it the expected value when you find it shocking.

Pretty big oversight that Stata uses “exit” to end a session when it could use “egress.”

They should just be called markets and I can decide if they’re super or not.

Sisters…

Vacationing in an untreated state is a SUTVA violation.

If you’re looking for some optimism about the future of research, remember that ORCIDs are 16 digits long.

They’re not actually fraudulent researchers if they tell you, “My research lies…”

Like growth rings in a tree trunk, you can tell how many times that a paper has been reviewed by counting the number of “as discussed above” and “as discussed below” phrases.

I’m in a lot of hot water right now. Though it’s more of a relaxing spa situation.

I appreciate when journals have the word “Journal” in their name. Sometimes I’m reading economics articles and start wondering, “Is this food? Is this a mode of transportation?” But then I see the word “Journal” and know that it’s a journal.

I started a new portion control diet. I can order whatever I want at restaurants and then my kids eat 80% of my meal.

Early Estimates of Awareness and Uptake of Over-the-Counter Naloxone academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

I was aware that having kids would increase the frequency with which another human being would sneeze directly in my face, but the magnitude has definitely been a surprise.

A spa which reads gentle reminders for referee reports to create a relaxing environment.

A new study finds that 11% of American adults reported illicit opioid use within the past 12 months and 7.5% reported use of illicitly produced fentanyl. bit.ly/4m7fUGX @davidpowell.bsky.social