I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality. My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector. 🧵👇

I have never been more intrigued by a movie synopsis. One sentence is also you need, apparently.

Me texting with my parents in Minnesota about the northern lights

Think I just finished reviewing my first paper for a journal that was entirely AI-generated 😞

If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.

As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

I've come around to the idea that many alternative payment models are really limited in the traditional Medicare space because they can't stop people from using expensive care from non-model participants. ACOs and episode-based payment models can't control "leakage" enough to be very effective.

Uhhh, very rude to completely call out my 2025 reading list like that

Wow. @jjmcdona.bsky.social of @factcheck.org says she doesn’t use the term #misinformation anymore bc it’s been politicized and become a trigger word. “It doesn’t mean anything anymore,” she said at #SciWri25. She now just says things are false or untrue.

The scientist running the study, Dr. Vivian Ho of Rice University, is brilliant and has done a lot of great work on unfair billing practices (and gotten some crazy blowback for it). I just submitted a bill for her analysis. They don't need any personal info, so redact your name and account numbers

Want to help check up on whether health insurance companies are meaningfully complying with price transparency laws? Check out this podcast to hear about a study collecting itemized hospital bills, or go directly to the study website. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/hel...

In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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

"Privately funded basic biomedical R&D is only viable when the market for it is good, and we didn't know it was going to be bad." - one of the people most likely to be able to tell whether the market was going to be good or not

Very good article, pretty sad. Really seems like the manufacturer is selling the NFL the opportunity to have plausible deniability more than anything else. "We used the best technology available to us to prevent concussions." Doesn't matter if it actually works.

We've been here before but let's see how FDA responds this time w/ Prasad wielding his influence. (I'm sure WSJ ed board + Loomer are already drafting their 2 cents...) "Sarepta's Duchenne confirmatory trial fails, but biotech will ask FDA for full approval anyways" endpoints.news/duchenne-con...

An FDA official told my colleague that the remaining user fee funding for the medical product centers, which includes the new drug, generic drug and biosimilar programs, likely can last through December. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/p...

Will Stancil epistemology is undefeated

So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right

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@allanmjoseph.bsky.social has been telling me there needs to be a "Dartmouth Atlas, but for pediatrics" for maybe a literal decade? And now there is! (h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

CMS head Mehmet Oz said new technology will allow Medicaid enrollees to verify their incomes “within seven minutes” for upcoming work mandates. What have two pilot tests of the tech in Arizona and Louisiana shown so far? Not much. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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WashU chancellor basically says, "We're still taking calls from the Trump administration, but we're not going to sign the proposed Compact."

For those who are wondering about grant proposal reviews in the USA

Kinda wild how much econometric knowledge is use it or lose it. Like a year ago, I typed out this equation in Word and understood what all of the parameters meant. It wouldn't take me that long to remember everything, but there's definitely some initial shock seeing it.

I’m thrilled to share that BU Questrom is launching a PhD program in Business Economics, in collaboration with BU’s Department of Economics. Our goal is to prepare students to do high-impact research setting them up for academic careers. Read a Q&A here: practicingeconomist.com/boston-unive...

📣It's not too late to join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event: "Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens," featuring expert panelists Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld and Dr. Amanda Isabel Mauri. Register for Zoom: buff.ly/4NtgbiU

US physician Medicare participation rose by 6.3% from 2013 to 2023, but exit rates were higher among female, older, and primary care physicians, especially in rural and shortage areas. ja.ma/4nZiU8W

Conservatives ask: Why do we need to subsidize ACA plans so heavily? It’s a fair question! Part of the answer here, in my latest for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/actual-hum...

men go nuts for cool jackets, they just love em

Amazing. Derek would have some words about the work that single button on the jacket is doing, tho

witches: bubble bubble toil and trouble me: hell yea hit me with that good news, ladies

I'd be very very surprised if WashU signed on to this, but I would quit if they did.

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I asked the best public speaker I know (known publicly as an amazing, charismatic presenter) his secret. Him: "I do ten full rehearsals of every speech" Me: "It's that easy?" Him: "I've told this secret to a lot of people, and none of them have ever started doing it."

New article out in print with Susan Yackee of UW LaFollette in @AnnualReviews Embattled Past, Uncertain Future: Law, Science, and Policymaking at the US Food and Drug Administration doi.org/10.1146/annu...

One woman bravely defending odds ratios against the linear probability mob

This is a joke website that just tells you to preprint your manuscript. Don't do what I did and bring it up in a meeting without testing it!

Fun fact: you can estimate a conditional logit by running a fixed effects Poisson. They yield the same estimates and standard errors - they maximize the same likelihood. Poisson regression forever!

Real dilemma here. This is not my personal experience with Bluesky at all (although I think all the jokes and examples to this effect are funny). But if I comment just for the sake of saying that, then I'm doing the Bluesky thing.

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion. More details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...