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Jason Abaluck
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A critical error that I see many grad students make: they try to estimate Frankenstein's model. Rather than viewing a model as answering a research question, they view a model
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I think of research design (informally) as being fundamentally about whether you have a story for where your identifying variation comes from--contrasted with the case where your identifying variation is
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COVID was a preventable disaster. Many ideas existed that could have helped that were not tried because no one had an incentive to test them. The government can provide incentives
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I don't think it works for experts to just "explain the function from actions to outcomes":1) Normative analysis requires understanding of positive models that often only experts have2) Experts have
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Next up: @ashdgandhi on selective admissions in the nursing home industry. A perennial problem in healthcare is selection. Nursing homes want to try to admit patients who generate a lot
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People puzzled by Trump's near-win forget how hard it is to form beliefs about the world. Even for professional policy analysts, your views about nearly all topics are heavily shaped
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More NBER Live Tweeting -- @GottliebEcon preventing on healthcare spending and physician earnings. (Sorry I skipped Maura's excellent paper because people kept sliding into my Zoom DMs). This paper is
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My experience was:a) The med community was *terrible* on masks as of late March -- people I spoke with insisted, "We can't recommend something that wouldn't be approved by the
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