Anirban Basu

Stergachis Family Endowed Professor & Director, The CHOICE Institute ( UW, Seattle, @amstatNews Fellow, @nberpubs RA. (he/him) 🐻 ⬇️

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

USING RACE IN CLINICAL ALGORITHMS

Started during the heights of pandemic, this paper has been a labor of love for me for the last 3 years… finally out at @ScienceAdvances

@UW_Pharmacy #UWCHOICE

https://t.co/5NrfzlCU7v

Some discussions…

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[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@Jabaluck What do you think will be in the utility function of a future AGI?

[AJHE @AJHE_journal]

New paper by @Basucally! How much of a drug's social value should go to innovators? 100% maximizes long-run welfare, but less if society prioritizes consumer surplus—especially when small countries can free-ride on others' R&D. https://t.co/ZCM5xuiXgs

[Annual Health Econometrics Workshop @HealthEconMetrx]

Call for papers! We are Excited that Partha Deb at CUNY has agreed to host the annual health economics workshop - Oct 1-3.

Please send cool papers to:
[email protected]

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@ashishkjha I do agree with you that private insurance market does not work in bringing down healthcare prices..

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@ashishkjha @ashishkjha .. unfortunately the price masks a lot of quantity (and some quality) aspects that’s not captured by just the procedure. Although I think we should be comparing US public reimbursements to compare with these other countries..

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@BanilowMary @instrumenthull I am fully aware that he does. I am just surprised they even the statistician did not bring up this literature when criticizing the Poisson model..

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@jmwooldridge One area where I am unsure about this approach is when we want to understand the effect of an X on Y, and X affects both Y and POP.. then I don’t want to adjust away the channel of effects through POP….

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@PhD_Genie Someone published my analyses.

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@KhoaVuUmn @haroldpollack Reverse causality?

[JAMA Network Open @JAMANetworkOpen]

Residency applications to programs in abortion-restricted states declined among both women and men post-Dobbs, with the largest gaps in abortion-related specialties such as #OBGYN and family medicine.

https://t.co/5jUKgzALHk

[Anup Malani @anup_malani]

Mumbai froze rents for 52 years (1947-1999) to protect tenants. Result: rental housing collapsed from 54% to 19% of stock. Landlords stopped building rentals. The irony is brutal.

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

This dysfunctional @chicagobulls management team is at it again.. getting minimal returns from trading their best players.. how can you not get a first rounder for Coby White…wish they could trade away this management for free..
@WaddleandSilvy

[NBER @nberpubs]

Household wealth begins to decline six years before the onset of dementia, largely because of poor financial decisions, from @JingLiUW, Kathleen M. McGarry, @lhnicholas, and @JonSkinner17 https://t.co/f0nh3N2MVC

[Lauren H. Nicholas @lhnicholas]

More on dementia & finances: similar to credit outcomes, we see declines on asset side start about 6 years before dementia onset, patterns are consistent with mistakes driving declines, not healthcare spending or spenddown

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@instrumenthull … unless your are Philip Rivers..

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@instrumenthull Indeed a nonsense take! You cannot apply prediction model on non randomized data and believe that you can reliably predict the counterfactuals.. as you can never validate those predictions..

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

That’s my gym-mate.. very proud!
@strongsasquatch

https://t.co/MpKezmFOgh

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@KhoaVuUmn Only if they were shocks😉…

[Anirban Basu @Basucally]

@KhoaVuUmn Preference heterogeneity..