This happened 😱 !! Extremely honored to become an #NBER Faculty Research Fellow @nberpubs ! Thanks to those who nominated to the #EconomicsofHealth Program !!! Very happy to be appointed alongside many great colleagues and friends www.nber.org/news/nber-ap...

In honor of long COVID awareness day, I wanted to speak about what my experience is like, 25 months in. I am much better but still only leave the house a couple times a week. 1/

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the fentanyl crisis and the Democrats’ failure to respond to it. The Party was “a little too ready to dismiss the hubbub over opioids as partisan hysteria, and a little too slow to notice that people were actually troubled.”

Worth reading. No idea how much weight to give the thesis that Dems lost these regions because Republicans gave the fentanyl crisis much more political and media attention, along with purported trade and border-focused solutions.

Perhaps the single most disturbing post-election statistic/correlation I have read this month.

The enduring legacy of the opioid epidemic has important lessons for partisan politics that are often overlooked @newyorker.com thanks for the conversation & for featuring our work

Same cruelty, violence and dehumanization, only the victim changes. Ecuador now endures the tragedy of cocaine trafficking @economist.com econ.st/3V72oav

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Asking for your help #EconSky !! I’m interested in your favorite paper using an IV strategy with data available for PhD 2nd year class on methods. Thank you :)