Drexel Hillel staff are on their 4th day of being barred from their building due to security precautions taken by the university responding to their encampment.

The encampment demands the 'termination' of the Drexel Hillel.

Donate to Drexel Hillel here:
secureia.drexel.edu/s/1683/form/16…

One scientific point -- the view that the job market experiment was obviously zero-sum seems wrong: decreasing search frictions could have increased match values, holding fixed the total number of hires.

This past semester I was tasked to teach a course on Data Science for Economist at Emory Economics

Some of the materials I have used in the course can be found here: psantanna.com/Econ520/

I‘ve leveraged a good amount of work from the greats Grant McDermott (@[email protected]) and Tyler Ransom

NPR covering Steve Schwab and Manasvini Singh!

Race and rank affect military health care, study shows ualrpublicradio.org/2024-05-21/rac…

I couldn't agree more. Genocide has a very specific and limited meaning and the war in Gaza doesn't even come close to genocide.

Retweeting this job market paper in my field

🚨Out today in JACEP Open !! 🚨

Work led by Maggie Samuels-Kalow and our social emergency medicine team from Mass General Brigham on pediatric emergency care coordinators.

Open access link below.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/em…

Postdoc position available at BU Questrom in Business Economics and Analytics! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27668

Should be a good House Budget Committee hearing this Thursday on the budgetary effects of health care consolidation, feat. Chapin White & Ben Ippolito

budget.house.gov/hearing/breaki…

health policy / social policy hivemind - does anyone have good sources that come to mind on the (racialized) origins of asset tests in social welfare programs?

(focused specifically on asset tests as a part of means-tested programs, less on income tests)

Does anyone know if the NBER working paper archive is available as a dataset with the text extracted and other characteristics documented?

Uh we literally for 2000 years obsessed over going home and somehow we expect Palestinians will magically give up on it

Earlier this week, Loren Adler, Richard Frank, and I made four recommendations to CMS on how it could improve the VRDC fee structure to mitigate the downsides of shifting research into the VRDC.

Link: brookings.edu/articles/comme…

In the spirit of the olden days of #EconTwitter , I thought I’d write down some notes on finishing up my first year on the tenure track (in a liberal arts setting) in economics. These will be in no particular order and kind of stream of conscious. Let’s have a convo about it! 1/N