🚨 New paper alert! “Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?” with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet that’s forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights. TLDR: Yes…there has been way too little enforcement. 🧵

So honored & excited to be at Emory CFAR /Emory University for this presentation! Join us in person or online for a fun conversation about reducing the research to policy gap w/ #impsci

If you conduct any analysis on time series data, I highly recommend this primer on time series analysis from Andrew Jebb & Louis Tay. It includes #RStats code and #IOPsych -specific examples. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

It had to be done.

Accurate

Reasons to use LPM over logit:

1) linear should mean a line, damnit
2) what even is a “link function”?
3) probability rules are made-up, anyway
4) the {marginaleffects} package looks scary

Really important work and I am looking forward to reading in detail!

Extending prior work on physician receipt of industry gifts, the key findings are increasing prescribing of cancer drugs without improvement in patient survival:

Mentors adopting a 'downward learning mindset', seeking to learn from junior team members, provide more engagement, advice, and support to mentees. Reminders or prompts to adopt this mindset enhances mentoring effectiveness. doi.org/10.5465/amj.20… #IOpsych #mentoring #leadership

📢Seeking presenters for a session on Public Health Applications in Decision Analysis for the INFORMS 2024 Annual Meeting. This session is part of the Decision Analysis Cluster.

If interested please email me a description of your project so we can see if it is a good fit!

Pretty persuasive John Burn-Murdoch evidence that growing vehicle size is not the cause of America’s uniquely bad pedestrian safety situation.

ft.com/content/9c936d…

Looking forward to the discussion!

Whatever your views on optimal sentence lengths, truth-in-sentencing policies that remove the possibility of parole are extremely costly.

The incentive to invest in rehabilitation and practice good behavior—which the possibility of parole provides—is very helpful. /1

A recent paper by David Macdonald demonstrates this clearly, using data from AZ.

A truth-in-sentencing policy in AZ reduced engagement in prison programming and dramatically increased the probability of reoffending. The effects were largest (most detrimental) for violent

Very important result. Relieving debt is appealing because it is so tangible but this work suggests it may be too downstream or “too little too late” to be helpful.

Missed opportunity to publish in the BMJ Christmas issue. Sad. 🙃

TIL honeybees are also caffeine fiends

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Let me answer their question with a question:

Is there any major financial incentive in all of US healthcare for providers to maintain slack in their schedules?

Very glad I had a Tide™️ To Go pen because now instead of a small stain I have a larger, diffuse stain

Brookings Center on Health Policy is hiring!

We have 2 openings:

- Research assistant: for folks graduating college to a few years out w/ background in economics, math, CS

careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3428/rese…

- Staff assistant: Administrative support

careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3431/staf…

About 20%-40% of health equity research