Always a good reminder, I still see this error quite often: "The difference between significant and not significant is not itself significant. If you want to carry out inference for a difference, you need to construct the standard error for that difference." www.econometrics.blog/post/overlap...

Overlapping Confidence Intervals | econometrics.blog

Perhaps you’ve seen a claim like this in an applied paper: “the estimated effect for Group A is statistically significant, but the estimated effect for Group B is not; this treatment helps As but not ...

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🚨NEW RESULTS 🚨 🧵1/4 J-PAL affiliated professors Rebecca Myerson & @lauradague.bsky.social, & Allison Espeseth from @coveringwi evaluated the impact of outreach and assistance from health insurance navigators on #Medicaid renewal. Results below 👇

Dan Sacks and I are looking for a postdoc to work on Medicaid evaluation projects at UW-IRP. See posting: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-... . Email your resume and cover letter to Tim Connor at tim.connor@wisc.edu. For any questions regarding the position, please contact Dan Sacks at dan.sacks@wisc.edu

Postdoc, Postgrad, and Research Intern Vacancies

Browse Postoc and Research Intern vacancies at UW–Madison.

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Important findings on administrative burdens and Medicaid by Rebecca Myerson, Allison Espeseth, and Laura Dague @lauradague.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34191

Navigating Medicaid: Experimental Evidence on Administrative Burden and Coverage Loss

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Property tax protest season in Texas! Does anyone know why sales data are not public? Impossible to generate comps for my own purposes and for the appraisers whose valuations are evidently based on very thin data

Did you know that PRAMS is still not collecting data at all right now? That means a permanent disruption to monitoring - a gap in data and our ability to monitor the health of moms and babies that will be there, forever, because of these disruptions, regardless of whether these cuts stick

An update to show the seismic crash in NIH funding. The left side shows NIH has issued almost no "new" awards since Trump took office. Even renewals (you receive a 5 year award, but each year they renew it), which should be mushed into the lines above it, is shockingly low.

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The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Our new paper: folks leaving prison continued to access necessary medications for chronic conditions only around half the time in the community, even when enrolled in Medicaid and despite having a prescription in hand. Link to paper (open access): jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...