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Jason Harrison

nominalthoughts

Not sure why people still view the 90s "welfare reform" as a success, because whenever I look into it the results seem lackluster. A step in the *wrong* direction, and

Peter Aldhous

paldhous

THREAD: #BlackLivesMatter protests have not led to clear spikes in #COVID19 transmission. What does that mean? 1/ Here are trends in new cases (7 day rolling average) for some

Zarek Brot-Goldberg

zarekcb

Despite everything, I have a new paper with @timothyjlayton @borisvabson @AdelinaYWang: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28331 Distract yourself from the woes of the world by reminding yourself about the woes of privatized health insuranc

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

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

Luca Fornaro

LucaFornaro3

Updated version of The Global Financial Resource Curse (https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wch3u3pjdrz927/globfincurse_june2020.pdf?dl=0). Since the late 1990s, a global saving glut has pushed capital from developing countries to the US. But invest

Aditya Dasgupta

_adasgupta

Thing about state capacity: takes rare societal consensus + generations of effort to build public institutions like the post office, but just a few corrupt leaders to hollow them out,

Rafael A. Mangual

Rafa_Mangual

This statement is completely at odds with the available evidence, which clearly establishes a strong causal connection between police & public safety. Where are the fact-checkers? Where is the little

Erik Öberg

ek_oberg

Paper alert!In a new NBER WP, Tobias Broer, @KrusellPer and I present a simple model to investigate how the interaction of nominal rigidities and household heterogeneity shape fiscal multipliers. https://www.nber.org/papers/w28366 Thre

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. I expect history will judge PPP a success. Congress was right to include a second round of PPP in its $900 billion relief package. And many of the changes

Matt

tiredgenerally

Doesn’t matter. We’ll ban both.https://twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1317550849242075137 Since the gun enthusiasts have found this, here’s my take on gun policy: Irrespective of the political constraints, good gun policy looks like Ja

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

Under absolutely no circumstances are this field experiment and the associated paper ethically justifiable. Not even under utilitarian terms given the actual harm imposed on subjects. Households in an African

Nozomi Nakajima

nozominaka

New @nberpubs working paper w/ wonderful coauthors @felbarrera @paul_gertler @hpatrinosLow-cost, group-based information intervention increases parental involvement in schools, changes parenting behavior at home, and reduces disciplinary ac

Charles - 6'3 Caesarian; Legatus - 13th Legion

JiffjoffI

http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2006/2006-09-15-diseasemitigationcontrolpandemicflu.htmlDonald Henderson, arguably most famous Epidemiologist of 20th century - for eradicating smallpox - led a massive research

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

"Public health" isn't just about vaccinations, clinics and urgent care: it's a holistic discipline that encompasses all the contributors to health outcomes, which include things like housing, employment, transportation, po

Steve Matthews

SteveMatthews12

The U.S. recovery from the coronavirus-induced recession is already leveling off and showing signs of faltering only two months into the rebound, a series of real-time economic indicators show. A

David Beckworth

DavidBeckworth

.@RameshPonnuru and I make the case to actually embrace some 'catch-up' inflation this year as it is needed to restore the dollar size of the economy to its pre-pandemic trend

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