The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is looking for a pending/recent PhD with strong causal inference skills, for a remote, part-time consulting position. This is a great opportunity for someone considering a transition from academia to the policy space. Deadline: March 15 Please share!

DeclareDesign is super useful for anyone in the design state of their experiment

Medicare Part B spends over $40 billion on physician-administered drugs. Our new study, forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics, finds that the program's payment formula slows drug price growth over time.

Are you a PhD Student curious about working in topics of health and aging? Do you feel like you may need extra support? I have a program for you! A one-day mentoring workshop hosted by yours truly and Jetson Leder-Luis (BU) through @nber.org www.nber.org/calls-papers...

#EconSky: Registration for "The Craft of Publishing in Economics" is now open! March 9, 12-1:30 EDT. Three fantastic editor will give suggestions for how to navigate the publication process w/ plenty of time for Q&A. More info & registration form below. econ4ua.org/the-craft-of...

FDA blinked www.wsj.com/health/healt...

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io

📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_ra

New dataset dropped this month: national Medicaid provider spending (2018–2024), aggregated by NPI x HCPCS x month. Includes FFS, managed care, and CHIP encounter data. Public, 3.3GB, provider-level detail. Looks very useful for utilization & spending research opendata.hhs.gov

#EconSky: Save the date & tell your friends! Economists for Ukraine will host an online workshop called "The Craft of Publishing in Economics" on March 9, 12-1:30 US EST. Sign up here to get more info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Francesca Gino saga has reached its logical conclusion: the LinkedIn post about what my adversity has taught me to launch “consulting services”.

Good idea

#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero. While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country. I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below). www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...

Nice essay by Carlos Chavez on the history and development of causal inference carloschavezp29.substack.com/p/on-causality

Lead (Pb) in archived hair in Salt Lake City. "Lead (Pb) in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency " www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Among patients already admitted to the hospital when a ransomware attack begins, in-hospital mortality increases by 34–38 percent."

From the thread: > Surprisingly, ChatGPT was much better at explaining and helping with Claude Code than Claude itself. For example, Claude gave me incorrect info about how to set up its permissions files.

If Julian is using Claude Code, that's a sign everyone must! This is a very neat step-by-step example of how to set up Claude Code and get it running on your machine. I use the native Claude Code in Claude App, but yeah, VS seems to be the default. I have it, but never got used to it.

Thoughts from a newbie using Claude Code for the first time. I don’t always use GitHub for my projects, but with Claude Code it feels like a must. Having a tool read and write files without version control is just too scary.

I've released a new version of strgroup, a Stata command that does fuzzy string matching. No new functionality, but the underlying C code has been optimized: it now uses much less memory and runs about 5 times faster github.com/reifjulian/s...

"knowing how and when to use gen. AI productively is not a simple skill; it requires domain-specific judgment that depends on disciplinary standards, developmental stage, and the goals of a particular assignment. In some contexts, reliance on AI short-circuits learning; in others, it enhances it"

This upward trend in measles cases is a very bad sign. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known and needs ~95% immunity to prevent spread. When communities fall below that level, as many do, outbreaks escalate fast. Infants too young to be vaccinated are especially at risk.

#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop! The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

From Andrew Gelman, how can we improve the research process? 1. Stop citing single studies as definitive. They are not. Check if the ones you are reading or citing have been replicated. 2. If you or someone else finds an error in your published work, publish a correction.

The @nber.org Summer Institute call for papers is now live: www.nber.org/calls-papers... [Note that typical meeting dates have been pushed back by a week due to Boston hosting FIFA World Cup events ending on July 9.]

Is anyone working on a study of the causal effects of prison work release programs? If so, please DM or email me. 🙏

Q: There’s a regression with three coefficients: b1, b2, b3 A theory says b1 > b2 > b3 What statistical test should I perform to test this joint prediction? The point estimates are such that b3 > b1 > b2, if that matters

Human health benefits are by far the largest benefit from most environmental regulations. By not monetizing these benefits moving forward, the Trump EPA is essentially saying there are no human health benefits to reducing air/toxic/climate pollution, improving drinking water quality, etc. 1/

#Econsky My co-author and I have a new paper we are presenting at the AEA Meetings, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... In this paper we examine Difference-in-Differences (DiD) from a time series perspective and provide three main results.

Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor. Why would competition lead to stricter regulations? 🧵 john-fallon-econ.com (1/9)

What happens when you remove medical debt from credit reports? I'll be presenting on this topic at #ASSA2026 in Philly on Saturday at 10:15am (Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth Hall D). DM me if you'd like to meet up.

Last chance to sign up for Econ PhD Chess tomorrow! We're sending arena invites today, please register by the form below ASAP if you want to be on our list or play on Sunday.

At this holiday season, we should remember people in Ukraine and their fight for freedom. I am proud to support @razomforukraine.org and the Kyiv School of Economics, which is helping to build a brighter future in Ukraine. foundation.kse.ua/en/

“learn from countries like Switzerland, where about two-thirds of young people go into vocational training after 11 years of compulsory schooling” economist.com/internationa...

AI has begun citing its own hallucinations. Reveals a related problem: many authors never bother checking, let alone reading, the papers they cite.

So Instacart showed different people different prices for eggs. Shocking? Before the outrage, ignore the Twitter press release. Look at what they actually found. Understand the facts and the economic theory to make sense of it www.economicforces.xyz/p/instacarts...

The anecdote about "true and non-trivial" ideas from social sciences leaves the impression that ideas other than comparative advantage are either trivial or untrue. Behold more basic ideas (from economics) that are true and non-trivial. #EconSky mytwocentsandcounting.substack.com/p/true-and-n...

One last (sobering) update on the #EconJobMarket before the winter holidays; data as of 2025-12-14. In terms of # of job listings on Job Openings for Economists (JOE), this is the worst job mkt in recent yrs for PhD Economists. # jobs down 20% from last yr, even 18.9% lower than during COVID (2020).

Last year, there were 11,000 abortions in Carbondale, IL, a city with 21,000 people www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away. She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her. The profession and the world are poorer without her.

Update on JOE postings -- things are worse: paulgp.com/2025/12/10/q...

"Unless you are living in 19th century Japan, you are probably used to reading text horizontally. Therefore, when possible, you should keep text horizontal – it’s the way people are used to reading" Amen. This goes double for graphs in presentations.

This also makes referee responses shorter :)

Health insurance researchers, send us your stuff! If you have questions about this special issue, please feel free to reach out to me or Miranda.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences combines "all of America’s national labs, MIT and Caltech, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy all into one organization" www.noahpinion.blog/p/china-has-...

This retracted Nature paper was the second most referenced climate paper in 2024

ASHEcon is seeking members to join the Scientific Review Committee in the peer review of abstracts submitted for consideration for the 2026 ASHEcon conference as the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN. Abstract reviews will take place in Dec 2025 and Jan 2026 . Deadline Dec 10th.

"global warming induces mechanical trends in extreme temperature exposure that correlate strongly with a location’s baseline temperature. Substantial bias emerges if trends in the outcome variable also correlate with baseline temperature for any reason"

be WISE and submit your work at this conference! I was told it's fantastic. The organizing group is solid, the location fantastic, the potential for high quality discussion is over the top. The keynotes are hit or miss, but what can I say, you win some and you lose some ;)