La recherche a besoin de vous! Enquête scientifique en ligne, sur un l’expérience du système de soins et les erreurs médicales. Merci de répondre, ce n’est pas long (15 minutes) Voici le lien vers le questionnaire : bapouey.limesurvey.net/256195?lang=... N’hésitez pas à relayer !

Takeshi Amemiya, my colleague and friend for many decades, has died at age 90. He made fundamental contributions to econometrics, having, as an empirical scholar, some gripes with the available toolkit. In retirement, he taught a course on the Economics of Ancient Greece. /1

Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, @phinifa.bsky.social, & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya show that switching users from a chronological to an algorithmic feed on X significantly shifted political opinions in a pro-Republican direction. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/

Anyone switched from Outlook to Thunderbird (or sth else) in an Outlook dominated organization? Strongly considering it.

I have question from a colleague about the history of the concept of human capital. Any advice? Literature recommendations? @shoet.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @cleocz.bsky.social @vhalsmayer.bsky.social

🌧️ Historique ! 40 jours consécutifs de #pluie en France, c'est-à-dire 40 jours avec au moins 1mm de pluie en moyenne en France. Cette série record s'est achevée hier, comme prévu (et tant mieux pour les sols gorgés d'eau).

We may not be single, but we are looking for fun (narrowly defined here as academic debate about the methodological challenges encountered when studying rare moths)

In case anyone would like to listen to Justin Avoth's brilliantly energetic reading of this, and wants to avoid Audible/Amazon, Libro FM is a good alternative: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

The widely touted gap in economic performance between the U.S. and Europe has more to do with measurement by our statistical agencies than the genuius of entrepeneurs like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-grand-...

We have some interesting empirical results for France that should hopefully become a paper later this year. For example, we see that GPs matter a lot and that many children tend to receive missed vaccines later.

Great point - low vaccination rates can be caused by many things - it's not always misinformation. Important to know the context you're working in and what the barriers are.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Andrew: I'm worried I'll be alone on my birthday Thames Valley Police: Relax

🤖NEW POST ON AI🤖 Perhaps you're thinking like Brenda from Bristol, 'not another one!' but... I felt that lots of writing about Claude Code doesn't really show you how it works. So I thought well, why not? And along the way some bad literary allusions. 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/the-appren...

This is a really interesting and helpful piece about working with AI by @benansell.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

We are very happy to support the new edition of this workshop! We will also give a short presentation on common mistakes when writing economics papers, and we will award a prize for the best paper

We’re very excited to be headed back to the Economics of Mental Health Workshop this June—this year as sponsors! Stay tuned 👀

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

When I was 12 I thought Phil Collins was the most boring musician ever. When I was 16 I thought he was at least a decent jazz & prog drummer. When I was 26 I thought he was a pretty smart songmaker. Now at 34 I am convinced he might be one of the biggest musical geniuses of the 20th century

I'm not saying this in a critical way, so much as a "my God am I a coal miner who doesn't understand new tech" way, but also what are these agents actually doing?

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

This is why we need heterogeneous treatment effect estimation

Zumal die Lebenserwartung mit den Arbeitsverhältnissen zusammenhängt. Wer einen gut bezahlten und sicheren Job hat, der lebt länger. Wer wenig verdient, prekär arbeitet und auch noch gesundheitsschädlichen Arbeitsbedingungen ausgesetzt ist, lebt kürzer. Die Lebenserwartung ist eine soziale Frage.

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...

If you have used Claude Code or similar for research, I'd love to pick your brain on two issues I have been wondering about: - Data confidentiality: what kind of data do you give it access to? - Data security: how do you deal with the risk that the agent does something stupid with your data?

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne, heute mal wieder per Satellit SDO und kräftig reingezoomt.

Low birth rates have modest long run negative effects, after good effects for a few decades, and raising birthrates exacerbates dependency. A giant, apparently permanent, disconnect between expert opinion (e.g., below) versus manufactured panic hype on this issue pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

One of the most frustrating things about the current US discourse over low birth rates is its laser focus on "how can we raise birth rates?" In this op-ed for @thehill.com, I explain why that's the wrong question and what we should be asking instead. 1/6 thehill.com/opinion/heal...

If you have used Claude Code or similar for research, I'd love to pick your brain on two issues I have been wondering about: - Data confidentiality: what kind of data do you give it access to? - Data security: how do you deal with the risk that the agent does something stupid with your data?

Good to know it's not just me

Just imagine that string buzz

Exciting news! My mum has just kindly given me this bundle of handmade linocut bookmarks. I'm giving one of these away for free with signed copies of my two latest novels. Please let me know if you'd like to grab one of these bundles for just book cover prices plus p&p. Only sending to UK, BUT...

More immigration into the US raises the number of health care workers and saves the lives of older Americans, from David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, and Brian E. McGarry www.nber.org/papers/w34791

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

💉 Fallait-il vacciner les enfants et les ados contre le #Covid19 ? Myocardite, thrombocytopénie... Une étude britannique sur des millions de mineurs conclut que les risques cardiaques d'une infection (barres 🔴) dépassent largement ceux liés au vaccin (🔵)chez les 5-18 ans. 1/6

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Economics has this reputation as being more conservative than the other social sciences, but look at us on this map of Bluesky, stuck between Swedish and Norwegian progressives!

according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle

well there’s an instant switch

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

And makes me want to share it!

🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n

Don't be Paul, take the win (congrats though!)