Adam Sacarny

Once I can get a full keyboard of this I will consider it

👆Came here to say this👆

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

For sure. When we wrote the peer effects research letter, we couldn’t have a supplement so even the methods went mostly unexplained. (We cited our analysis plan which did describe them… maybe good enough but not ideal)

I wish they were more of a thing for econ papers. 600 words prob too short but 1,000 might work. Like I'm v proud of our paper on peer effects w/ @andrewolenski.bsky.social @mlbarnett.bsky.social (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...). JHE would have been a logical target but writing costs were high.

Love them for getting a simple fact out! Or reporting a study that might otherwise get file-drawered because costs of writing up the whole thing are too high. One thing that bugged me was that JAMA series journals wouldn't accept supplements for them, but that seems to have changed.

Do you love health economics and learning about cool new research? Do you like telling other people about it? Come and be a social media editor at AJHE!! We're looking for someone to join our editorial team @ashecon.bsky.social

This is *extremely* bad (for the accuracy of my paper introductions about tech adoption)

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Development of an Atlas for US Pediatric Acute Care This cross-sectional study offers a national US atlas of pediatric acute care centers in the US.

@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)

Safety and Efficacy of NVX-CoV2373 Covid-19 Vaccine | NEJM Early clinical data from studies of the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine (Novavax), a recombinant nanoparticle vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that contains the full...

I believe it’s used all the time in epi / public health for binary outcomes! Coefficients have a nice interpretation as relative risk ratios. And often used for estimating vaccine effectiveness, like in the RCT of the Novavax vaccine for Covid: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

This rules!! Just FYI there is a minor typo on the Scheduling page ("Both Intercity and Commuter trains are scheudled every 15 minutes at consistent and predictable intervals.")

Just don't run predictive margins!! They are not the same!

Toying around with this yesterday in Stata, clogit, xtpoisson, and ppmlhdfe were pretty similar in speed. But I just had one level of fixed effects (the group id). I would bet if you have additional fixed effects in the regression ppmlhdfe is far superior.

See journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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!

@instrumenthull.bsky.social where are we on this?

lol he is???

Also hopefully not a “Doctor Mike Reacts to Confused Health Economist” video situation

Not everyone in the US knows each other Rafe!!

Only in the sense that the algorithm is pushing me his entire repertoire

As someone on the Pitt to ER pipeline I strongly recommend this (now burning through ER season 8)

Doctor Mike!!! Let this be your introduction to the broader Dr Mike commentary universe

Very excited this is coming out soon!
cc @ambarlaforgia.bsky.social

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

The 2025 academic econ job market is trending better than the first COVID market year but worse than the rest of 2019-present

www.davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/

I think at Mailman at least there is an opportunity to request an extension, it isn't automatic. Just based on an email I saw from earlier this year. I'm not sure how hard it is to actually get the extension

Screenshot from the movie Speed of the bus making a high-speed turn surrounded by police vehicles

The bus I've been taking this week makes local stops then runs on the highway. Like the bus in the movie Speed. It's all I can think about on my way in.

National Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Bed Supply, 2011 to 2023 This cross-sectional study discusses trends in inpatient psychiatric bed supplies.

Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: we find that inpatient psychiatric bed supply increasingly comes from freestanding psychiatric hospitals in large for-profit chains.
Authors: Karen Shen @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Mark Olfson @columbiapsych.bsky.social + me
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Selfie of me smiling in front of the Broad Street pump

Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the Broad Street pump! Sadly, I saw that the pump handle had been removed. I worked to reinstall the pump handle so local residents would not be deprived of this vital resource. So glad to bring some of the latest American public health ingenuity to London!