Jason Fletcher
@jasonmfletcher.bsky.social
Professor of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin. Health Economics, Social Genomics, Networks. Views my own. https://fletcher.lafollette.wisc.edu https://substack.com/@jasonmfletcher
A new focus of college education--creating experienced managers (of AI agents) jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/a-new-focu...
A new focus of college education--creating experienced managers (of AI agents)
All colleges and universities are re-considering (“reimagining”) the essential skills we need to be teaching and how students can demonstrate expertise during their work-lives.
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What are the long-run health effects of abortion legalization? @hamidnb.bsky.social, Vu & @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social find cohorts in utero under legalized abortion regimes had 4.5% lower adult mortality and sizable reductions in disability. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/744083 #EconSky
AI can help us fix science by attacking the worst evidence jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/ai-can-hel...
AI can help us fix science by attacking the worst evidence
But current rules and infrastructure are not ready
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Substack: How to transition from dissertation chapter to journal article jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/how-to-tra...
How to transition from dissertation chapter to journal article
Another lightning strike---two teams working on the same question
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Forty-three years a teacher, a role model who treated every economy as a system worth understanding whole, and a friend to me, always insisting you check all the boxes—and then go away, think harder, and circle back: **In Memory of Jeffrey Williamson: SATURDAY “SLOUCHING” & FRIENDS** Economic... 1/
In Memory of Jeffrey Williamson: SATURDAY “SLOUCHING” & FRIENDS
Economic history & related topics: The man who woke up eager, and the discipline of working as hard as you can to get the numbers right...
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16 years after starting the project, 13 years after first submitting, it lives: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... It was a good experience. More on that later.
Here are the 16 papers in the newest issue of Economics and Human Biology--see if you can find the pattern www.sciencedirect.com/journal/econ... In related news, happy to have a paper on early life effects of county health departments on longevity with @hamidnb.bsky.social
Many folks are replying to lament the loss of the paper. I agree we shouldn't give up on it! Google Docs version history + Pangram + submissions of multiple iterations of the paper + giving an exam on the paper is quite effective - see this syllabus, for example bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmo...
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last mo.Friends don't let friends give assignments that are AI-cheatable
Are we really living in a gerontocracy? open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
Are we really living in a gerontocracy?
demography weighs in
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Placing bets: Statistical power is a key impediment to longevity research open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
Placing bets: Statistical power is a key impediment to longevity research
Andrew Gelman of course has a great blog/substack and has been talking about statistical power issues in the social sciences for a long time.
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Another AI use case: listening to useless presentations so you don't have to open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
Another AI use case: listening to useless presentations so you don't have to
I’m a good way through sketching out a book length treatment of the work I’ve been doing on longevity (esp with Hamid Noghanibehambari).
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How often do NBER Summer Institute organizers put their own papers on the program? open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
How often do NBER Summer Institute organizers put their own papers on the program?
Peter Hull asked, so...
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Time to update our timeline of projects at americanmortalityproject.lafollette.wisc.edu Work on county health departments with @hamidnb.bsky.social Free access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Now there is no excuse not to take advantage of one of the best public good elements of @nber.org, which is circulating so much free, great and timely economics research throughout the year. This webpage makes it even easier to locate work related to your interests. gideon-bornstein.com/si2026.html
NBER Summer Institute 2026 — Video Library
A searchable library of the NBER Summer Institute 2026 recordings: jump straight to any talk's video and paper.
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Very happy to work with @nber.org to outline our research program (with @hamidnb.bsky.social), summarizing what we are learning about the impacts of early life circumstances on old age mortality and next steps.
The Long Shadow of Early Life: Life Cycle Exposures and Old-Age Mortality
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AI-assisted research obliges us to be a new type of "Senior Author" open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
AI-assisted research obliges us to be a new type of "Senior Author"
This is a new role for many of us. We have some of the tools to do it, but must develop others
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Mentoring Session Notes (Part 4): Tenure in unit vs. Tenure in profession, and Local vs. Global Maxima open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
Mentoring Session Notes (Part 4): Tenure in unit vs. Tenure in profession, and Local vs. Global Maxima
ASHEcon 2026 wrapped up in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago, and I thought I’d post a few of the main questions I heard in the early scholars mentoring sessions on Sunday.
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PhD student training in the age of AI: "Coach" vs "Lab" models open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
PhD student training in the age of AI: "Coach" vs "Lab" models
To the extent my views on AI assistance in research are distinctive among economists, one reason is that I have a history of running something closer to a lab of PhD students.
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Interesting stylized fact--the median US household gives < 2% of income to charity. I would have guessed closer to 10%. from: www.census.gov/content/dam/... But ChatGPT confirms: chatgpt.com/s/t_6a3af0e8...
Mentoring Session Notes (Part 3): What Cover Letters Are Actually For open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
Mentoring Session Notes (Part 3): What Cover Letters Are Actually For
ASHEcon 2026 wrapped up in Minneapolis last week, and I thought I’d post a few of the main questions I heard in the early scholars mentoring sessions on Sunday.
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