Journal finds that each hour of Fox News consumption reduces frequency of vaccination update in viewers under 65. Fairly sophisticated analysis in terms of separating out impact of Fox News vs just conservative vax hesitancy being associated w/Fox viewing. nature.com/articles/s4159…

The three Nobelists responded to winning in different ways. Bernanke gave a Brookings talk. Diamond held a press conference. Dybvig rocked out on his guitar in a hotel room.

In 2021, a woman pointed to Tucker Carlson’s vaccine misinformation as a reason her dad died of covid. New research shows Fox viewers were less likely to get vaccinated — especially in a period when Carlson led on talking about the vaccine. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

I do research at ETH Zürich Zurich, 7th University in the world with a budget of roughly 2 billion CHF. Still, its library doesn't have access to American Economic Association and Oxford University Press journals, that cover most of the top 25 journals in my profession. I am speechless

Just ended two fantastic days discussing research on AI/Econ. We thank all participants for their insightful and original contributions. A special thanks to Joshua Blumenstock and Daniel Björkegren for the inspiring keynotes Elliott Ash ETH Center for Law & Economics

Alex Jones was ordered to pay ~$1 billion for Sandy Hook lies. But the key issue remains: It’s so easy now to make a lot of money by lying outrageously and cynically. My piece on why we should focus on this, and the money machine, to slow this onslaught. nytimes.com/2022/10/16/opi…

I thought being corresponding author was cool, until I saw the enormous amount of spam. Rookie mistake

Check out the newly posted JMP by Germain Gauthier (GermainGauthier) "Measuring crime prevalence and reporting: Method and application to #MeToo" dropbox.com/s/jepq64dfauyo… An important entry for social science and for crime policy. (1/3)

My Stata SSC packages have reached in October a total of more than 15k downloads! Happy to see they are being used by the community ☺️

PhD students should have access to therapy

A great chance to explore working opportunities at our Center ETH Center for Law & Economics: We warmly invite interested students, #PhDcandidates, #fellows & #postdocs to our hybrid CLE Hiring Event on Thursday, December 8! Please register via this form until Dec 5: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Quick Stata tip: inlist2 is a better version of inlist that allows more than 10 arguments. h/t Matteo Pinna ssc install inlist2

Quick Stata tip: use "binscatterhist" to show a binned scatterplot along with histograms of the variables. h/t Matteo Pinna ssc install binscatterhist sysuse auto2, clear binscatterhist weight length, hist(weight length) ymin(1100) xhistbarheight(30) yhistbarheight(13)

#OpenAccess from @PolAnalysis - The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during #COVID19 - cup.org/479Kmcd - Elliott Ash, S Galletta, Dominik Hangartner, Yotam Margalit & Matteo Pinna #FirstView