It took my 51 minutes to fold 1.5 load of laundry. I’m so inefficient or is this normal??

Now I can show this to my kids when I randomly let one of them choose the car song. These lemmas should satisfy them.

Econometrica@ecmaeditors.bsky.social · last wk.

Random Priority—a popular no-transfer allocation mechanism—is efficient, fair, & simple to participate in. Is it the only mechanism with these properties? Marek Pycia @econ.uzh.ch and Peter Troyan, UVA Economics, answer this long-standing question in the positive. buff.ly/zlSjmC0

Random Priority—a popular no-transfer allocation mechanism—is efficient, fair, & simple to participate in. Is it the only mechanism with these properties? Marek Pycia @econ.uzh.ch and Peter Troyan, UVA Economics, answer this long-standing question in the positive. buff.ly/zlSjmC0

This fall 2026, I'll be spending my Sabbatical at @brookings.edu with the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity. Excited for my time there and hope to connect with people in the health policy space as well as old friends!

New episodes coming soon, make sure we are on your feed if you want to listen to them!

The #Medicaid work requirement enacted by last year’s Republican reconciliation law was already bad enough. The Trump administration’s new interim final rule makes a bad policy worse...here's a little more on why: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Administration’s Last-Minute Restrictions Likely to Worsen Impact of Medicaid Work Requirement

The Trump Administration’s final rule implementing the new Medicaid work requirement makes major, last-minute policy shifts that will likely increase the number of people who are denied or lose health...

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Check out the latest IHEA online seminar! Anyone can come!

Davide Dragone@davidedragone.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Next VERB seminar. Do GLP-1 Medications Pay for Themselves? by Kosali Simon. Save the Date!! May 4, 2026. 15:30-16:30 UTC Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8625617099... @healtheconomics #econsky #healtheconomics @sebastiantt.bsky.social @unibo.it @johncawley.bsky.social @mariomacis.bsky.social

#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop! The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

homer simpson is holding a bell and a sign that says the end is near

ALT: homer simpson is holding a bell and a sign that says the end is near

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Christoph Kronenberg@ckronenberg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop! The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

Culture and Health handbook chapter - honered to provide a lecture to iHEA - youtu.be/5CLi_XCd2fM slides available here healthinequalitylab.org/research/wor...

Culture and Health

YouTube video by IHEA

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🚨New Paper 🚨 with Dan Grossman and Sarah Hamersma! authors.elsevier.com/c/1mxflc24bE... In policy debates, we often say the U.S. system is “fragmented.” But what does that actually look like for families, and how has that evolved? and how has US policy shifted this?

What is the phenomenon called when people who do complicated stuff try to explain things in the most simple terms while people who do really simple stuff, try to use fancy language to elevate the sophistication of what they are doing?

Please Share! The Environmental Inequality Lab is hosting it's second undergraduate research training program in environmental and energy economics this summer & it's open to all (with current U.S. work authorization)! Full-time, funded, in-person, 10-weeks. More details here tinyurl.com/EEE-URTP

Got some good news about a paper (that I'll share later), but just wanted to share that I tracked how long it took to work on this paper. From the first meeting about the project to the conditional acceptance: 1708 days From first meeting to first submission: 691 days

Today, I’m launching DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: an open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their expertise and accelerate data analysis by 5-10x -- *without* sacrificing the transparency... github.com/brhkim/daaf/...

GitHub - DAAF-Contribution-Community/daaf: DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: An open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their exp...

DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: An open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their expertise and accelerate data analysis by a...

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What’s your song(s) to listen to after a sh*tty day, not to cheer you up but to sulk in it? Something like Anna Nalick‘s “wreck of the day“

Substack: Hidden Curriculum: picking journals

Hidden Curriculum: picking journals

New paper: “Submissions Related to Editors’ Research Are More Likely To Succeed: Evidence From Economics Journals” shows evidence that (1) editors are less likely to desk reject manuscripts related to...

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The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.

Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Maybe OSU's faculty is too polite to say it publicly, but Chase is hiring people whose CVs wouldn't get them a 2nd look in a real dept's search. 2 pubs, both in bottom-tier/scam journals, & 1 citation? That's NOT a TT-at-an-R1 level hire. It's a diversion of resources to "win" a race to the bottom.

🚨 Please share widely! 🚨 I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame. Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

Also, please share for visibility!

Sebastian Tello Trillo@sebastiantt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are you a PhD Student curious about working in topics of health and aging? Do you feel like you may need extra support? I have a program for you! A one-day mentoring workshop hosted by yours truly and Jetson Leder-Luis (BU) through @nber.org www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Are you a PhD Student curious about working in topics of health and aging? Do you feel like you may need extra support? I have a program for you! A one-day mentoring workshop hosted by yours truly and Jetson Leder-Luis (BU) through @nber.org www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Mentoring Program on Aging and Health Economics Research

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I watched two 16-year olds get abducted, I have not been able to get any organization to try to help them, I think about them every day, I read stuff like this and I want to puke

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6mo ago

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Joe Robertson@joro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

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1000%. I had no idea how busy i would be

Sebastian Tello Trillo@sebastiantt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As a PhD student, I was told that "seniors" are always really busy, though I speculated, I really wasn't sure how this materialized. I'm not yet SSJ3 Senior, just like baby-senior, but one way it materializes is "Death by 1000 cuts" ⬇️

As a PhD student, I was told that "seniors" are always really busy, though I speculated, I really wasn't sure how this materialized. I'm not yet SSJ3 Senior, just like baby-senior, but one way it materializes is "Death by 1000 cuts" ⬇️

"When researchers cannot specify and be transparent about what equity means in their work, it risks becoming an aesthetic rather than a commitment." Sharp piece by Choi et al outling several issues with contemporary research that have increasingly troubled me. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Advancing the Science and Scholarship of Health Equity

Health equity research has advanced substantially during the past 2 decades and has emerged as a foundational element of population health science and scholarship.1 JAMA Health Forum has embraced thi...

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Why? The authors provide two reasons: First, economic strains leads individuals to compensate for their loss of legal revenues with illegal earnings. Second, cancer patients face lower expected cost of punishment through a lower survival probability. Wow!

I just came here to say that I'm 10 years out from my PhD and I'm "tenured" and the imposter syndrome is still strong. Maybe not for everything but for a number of aspects of my job.

Ok that was fun, let’s pause ai or like slow it down.