If govt wants academics to do more practical work:
(a) improve the quality and availability of data. Nobody can provide real-time analysis of data that are released with a 2-5 year lag.
(b) increase social science funding at NSF to provide public goods not just QJE's. 1/4
Contamination is the biggest threat to the recycling system.
It adds cost, lowers quality, slows the process, and can lead to worker injuries.
Here are 12 things you should never put into your recycling bin, dumpster, or chute 🧵:
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Kaiser Permanente" by Alyce Adams, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. https://t.co/nf8DwDuABX
🚨New Working Paper🚨
The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Health Care Utilization
with @alyceadamsPhD, @ray_kluender, @JinglinWang4, @francisawong, @wesyin
NBER WP: https://t.co/UHFA7Mqxqy
Ungated version: https://t.co/kmglKAonKF
Begin 🧵
Nice writeup of our paper on how medical debt relief impacts healthcare use (with @alyceadamsPhD, @ray_kluender, @JinglinWang4, @francisawong, @wesyin)
Kudos to the journalist for placing the paper in the broader context of our work on medical debt
https://t.co/6cadtrxhDT
A chapter in the Handbook of Industrial Organization tries to provide a uniform organizing framework for the recent work on selection markets, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and @nealemahoney https://t.co/nA6wlSKmxz
One reason some Americans aren't getting vaccinated?
They're worried about getting a surprise medical bill — and don't trust promises that it will be free.
As one unvaccinated woman put it to me, "“This is America. Your health care is not free."
https://t.co/XszvkTDQrO
“This is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves and to hold on to the goodness in each other no matter how difficult it is to do that.” —Chloé Zhao (@NYUTischSchool) in her #Oscars acceptance speech for Best Director, @nomadlandfilm
Breaking: The government has agreed to rescind DHS and ICE rules barring international students attending online universities from staying in the U.S., per a hearing this afternoon in Harvard and MIT's lawsuit against the agencies.
how to financially help BLM with NO MONEY:
1) TURN OFF YOUR ADBLOCKER.
2) go to: https://t.co/0fKq52m1x5
3) watch the whole thing.
4) watch 3-4 short videos.
5) repeat steps 2-4 as much as you can!
A way to be more productive while driving
Academic Article Audiobook
I wrote an R script to scrape and format academic article PDFs so you can listen to them through any reader app.
Code can be downloaded at https://t.co/DL4SoEoLyN. I'm new to R. I welcome any code feedback!