Ryan McDevitt

Professor of Economics @WashUOlin & School of Public Health

[Michigan Track & Field / Cross Country @UMichTrack]

Ticket Punched! 🎟️

Brendan Herger is heading to Eugene for the second straight year! #GoBlue〽️

[Ryan McDevitt @ryanmcdevitt]

Hope this practice spreads to economics and health policy as well

https://t.co/sdZ2PSx571

[Ryan McDevitt @ryanmcdevitt]

Dialysis facility closures outpaced openings in 2024 — I lay out the economics of why this is happening

https://t.co/F17XwuRW64

[Ryan McDevitt @ryanmcdevitt]

@florianederer I watch the dialysis industry closely 😉

[NBER @nberpubs]

Featured in the latest Digest: Price Competition and Fraud Among Medicare Equipment Suppliers

https://t.co/61u1OUCts5

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Congratulations to my colleague @jetson_econ for being named one of the Best 40 Under 40 business school professors!
https://t.co/MtXKmZHNFF

[Bloomberg @business]

Andrew Bursky and his wife pledged $200 million through their family foundation to name a newly created school of public health at Washington University in St. Louis. https://t.co/ziuNhkNqc5

[Ryan McDevitt @ryanmcdevitt]

feeling that today

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Many university administrations in the US are in denial. They are shrinking faculty size and adding new layers of administration. The AI Era requires precisely the opposite.

[JAMA Health Forum @JAMAHealthForum]

Among traditional #Medicare beneficiaries, private equity acquisition of primary care practices was not associated with changes in all-cause or preventable hospitalizations, but modestly reduced emergency department visits.

https://t.co/XtkUYETTdp

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

@florianederer @andreamatranga @billyisapilgrim Let's be clear that the best and worst skill of economists is that absolutely nothing, including donor money, changes our minds.

[Ryan McDevitt @ryanmcdevitt]

These data are flawed and incomplete. Better to use the validated, comprehensive dataset from @sungilkim94 et al. here:

https://t.co/P5e0EK91E7

https://t.co/uB91uqKuW7

Several replications currently in the works —@ambarlaforgia and I highlight some of the major flaws in the current literature here:

https://t.co/xHQLdLsmHl

[Private Equity Stakeholder Project @PEstakeholder]

Find out which hospitals in the US are owned by private equity here: https://t.co/oiGHYtVJwA

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Watch Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 run 1:59:30 to destroy the Marathon World Record in London!!🤯🔥

First man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon.

2. Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 1:59:41
3. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 2:00:28

All under the previous World Record.

[Penn Relays @pennrelays]

@UMichTrack earns the College Track Performance of the Day presented by @on_running after shattering one of the oldest meet records in their Men’s 4x800 Championship of America victory 😤

[Michigan Track & Field / Cross Country @UMichTrack]

Brendan Herger cracks the top-10 all-time NCAA performers list in the 1500m and he’s only a sophomore! 🤯 #GoBlue〽️

[NBER @nberpubs]

Investigating how the gender mix of expert teams affects performance during childbirth care finds that female-only teams achieved the best maternal outcomes, from @ambarlaforgia and @vini_singh_ https://t.co/gYucpu5I3Q

[Michigan Track & Field / Cross Country @UMichTrack]

Trent McFarland and Brendan Herger smashed Kevin Sullivan’s 1,500m record from 1997 this weekend at the Wake Forest Invitational!

McFarland holds the new program record 💨 #GoBlue〽️

[Michigan Track & Field / Cross Country @UMichTrack]

With a PR of 3:34.06 in the 1,500m, Brendan Herger has the No. 2 time on the program performers list! #GoBlue〽️