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Simon Reif

@simonreif.social

👨‍💻 zew - centre for european economic research mannheim (health care markets and health policy group). 🧑‍🏫 FAU professor for economics (health care markets) 🏡 nürnberg. schlauraffen land. sometimes punkrock 💻 http://simonreif.eu

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Nick Huntington-Klein@nickchk.com · 6d ago

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

Simon Reif@simonreif.social · 3w ago

Zur Diskussion um die Anzahl an Krankenkassen: Weder im internationalen Vergleich noch im deutschen Quer- und Längsschnitt lässt sich ein klarer negativer Zusammenhang zwischen Kassengröße und Verwaltungskosten je Versicherten zeigen. Heute online beim ifo Schnelldienst ✌️ www.ifo.de/publikatione...

Weniger Krankenkassen, geringere Kosten? Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme | ifo Institut

Die Debatte um eine Reduktion gesetzlicher Krankenkassen wird häufig mit möglichen Einsparungen bei Verwaltungskosten begründet. Der Beitrag untersucht diese Annahme empirisch und ordnet sie ökonomisc...

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Simon Reif@simonreif.social · last mo.

Reading scientific papers is like...solve two CAPTCHAS s.t. Cloudflare has made sure that you are really a human, see that article is behind paywall, 2FA in the university network, Cloudflare again, nope, still no access... But good that the bots from SciHub are better than me...

Simon Reif@simonreif.social · 3mo ago

🥁Fans of @quarto.org: We have updated our template package at github.com/simonreif/ze.... It now has a cleaner structure, no LaTeX is needed in the qmd documents and we did a lot of bug fixes. For the cool kids, there is now also an AGENTS MD file that helps your AGENT to agent. 🤖🦶

GitHub - simonreif/zewwwwEcon: Quarto Templates for Applied Economic Research Projects

Quarto Templates for Applied Economic Research Projects - simonreif/zewwwwEcon

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Simon Reif@simonreif.social · last yr.

🦶We made a thing! An unbranded version of the @quarto.org templates we use for our empirical research projects (Slides, Papers, Project setup) in R or Python is available here: github.com/simonreif/ze... 🥂It's called zewwwwEcon since it is the version for the www of our internal zewEcon package 🤷‍♂️

Simon Reif@simonreif.social · 4mo ago

The amount of tokens I spent on this template is ridiculous, but if you ever wanted to have an academic PDF CV, rendered from Quarto via typst that uses multiple .bib files for different publication categories... check this out: github.com/simonreif/ac...

GitHub - simonreif/academic-cv-quarto: A modern, flexible CV template using Quarto and Typst. Features customizable colors, social media links and multiple literature lists from .bib files.

A modern, flexible CV template using Quarto and Typst. Features customizable colors, social media links and multiple literature lists from .bib files. - simonreif/academic-cv-quarto

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Hannes Ullrich@hannesullrich.com · 4mo ago

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: submit your digital health economics papers and abstracts by April 6! More info here: www.digitalhealthecon.org

Hannes Ullrich@hannesullrich.com · 5mo ago

Call for Papers! The 3rd Workshop Applied Economics in Digital Health will take place at HPI, Potsdam, 2-3 July 2026. Submission deadline on March 30. Exciting keynote, diverse academic program and policy discussions! Further info: www.digitalhealthecon.org @arieldora.bsky.social @simonreif.eu

Simon Reif@simonreif.social · 4mo ago

"We economists are just better with empirical methods, that's why we can contribute to a lot of research areas" ...says the first year PhD student who has just vibe coded his master thesis on the causal effect of smoking on lung cancer.