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Thanks!

Oh, I saw some coverage on Yahoo.com news. Can I suggest Yahoo.com news? They are being very pissy. It's like a fever dream.

what happened over there?

Staying out of trouble? Effect of high school career counseling on crime Human capital-based models of crime imply that increasing educational attainment will decrease crime. A growing body of empirical work has supported t…

Here is one of mine that I think is interesting

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Would love to free ride on this list, to motivate phd students to not chase stars.

do you have a favorite paper with a null effect?

{putting together a list}

Congrats!

This is a super useful tool for R users

friends, I’m about to spend a LOT of time in airports/hotels the next two months. help a girl out: what are your fav places to order delivery in Chicago, DC, or SF?

(bonus points for any food recs in Missoula!)

The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

screen shot from NBER website that contains paper title, authors, and abstract: Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan & David Torres Irribarra Working Paper 33798 DOI 10.3386/w33798 Issue Date May 2025 Since 1991, Chile has provided large, renewable cash grants to indigenous children in lower-income households, conditional on school enrollment. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of grant exposure on indigenous adults and their children, leveraging variation in expected grant exposure across birth cohorts and never-treated adults, and using fixed effects to absorb unobserved variables shared by adults born in the same year and community. Cohorts with the greatest exposure had 0.6 more years of schooling, 10% more hours worked, and 22% higher labor earnings, reducing pre-treatment ethnic differences. Mothers’ exposure increased their children’s early-grade test scores and reduced second-generation grant receipt.

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.

Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

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Call for Papers! The Annual Health Econometrics Workshop will be hosted by Edward Norton and the University of Michigan, Nov. 6-8, 2025. If you are working on methodological advancements in health economics we'd love to see your work. Please send papers to:

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STATA help: Does anybody know how to save (or estimate, idk, via bootstrapping or something) the SEs of the fixed effects in reghdfe?

Here are some ways the world has gotten better.

My cake on a face!

A primer on SNAP work requirements - The Hamilton Project An explainer on work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, summarizing the research on work requirements and their efficacy.

ICYMI: @chloeneast.bsky.social and I updated our FAQ about SNAP and work requirements last month.

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#EconSky

I didn't notice, but there does seem to be less research chat and questions. I used to mostly engage with questions people posted, if I knew the answer.

Examining external demands for parental involvement in educational settings finds that mothers are 1.4 times more likely than fathers to be contacted by schools, from Kristy Buzard, Laura K. Gee, and Olga B. Stoddard https://www.nber.org/papers/w33775

Exciting to work on this with @gabriconti.bsky.social @rginja.bsky.social and Petra Persson!

I guess a lot of people who were planning to retire aren't gonna.

Louisiana's hepatitis C "subscription model" treatment program increased detection and treatment rates while reducing mortality and liver transplants, from James M. Flynn, Bethany I. Lemont, and @bartonwillage.com https://www.nber.org/papers/w33617

Can your doctor save you? The best doctors do not simply offer more care: they deliver more effective care

Doctor quality varies more than we think—and it matters a lot for patient health. 🩺⚕️

Find out more in this IZA World of Labor piece, based on new research by @rginja.bsky.social, @julier.bsky.social, @bartonwillage.com & Alexander Willén.

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@rginja.bsky.social (U. Bergen) discusses her and coauthors research on the menopause penalty in the workplace. Using data from Norway & Sweden, she finds surprising long-term effects on earnings & health.

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#WomensHealth #EconSKy #Menopause

No I'm still down here.

Just a horrible road that feels like a nightmare.

Is there any follow up, quantification, or in depth news on what the (direct or indirect) impacts of yesterday’s economic boycott was?

Existence of Amazon prime implies existence of dAmazon/dt

Could that also be interpreted as counties with low wage growth use more social safety?