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This is what Chief Economists look like! @Penny_WB Gita Gopinath.

This has been a pretty overwhelming day so far. I am so incredibly grateful for everyone who helped make this book happen, who has helped promote it, and who has bought it. Really, thank you. I'm very lucky.

Today I turn a page: after 15 wonderful years at University of Illinois Chicago today I start as Professor and Driehaus Fellow in the Economics Department at DePaul University @driehausbus! And after 7 glorious years as Executive Director of @ashecon ASHEconTony is retired: I'm just Anthony LoSasso now!

Excited to announce that today I begin my tenure as the inaugural North Hall Endowed Chair of Economics UC Santa Barbara! This year I will also serve as the Associate Dean and Faculty Equity Advisor for the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science.

Insurance brokers make financial mistakes when recommending products. AI improves choices, saving consumers money. AI complements human skill and productivity is enhanced, from Jonathan Gruber, Ben Handel, Samuel H. Kina, and Jonathan T. Kolstad nber.org/papers/w27038

Total website revamp, including a bunch of new papers. Let me know what you think! benjaminhandel.com

Here is a draft of our new paper on market-based provision of health insurance, behavioral economics, and inequality. Low education / SES consumers make substantively worse choices. static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee3119…

Following work by Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Ben Handel, and Jon Kolstad we look specifically at high-value and low-value care. We find that 3a: Low-spending plans DO NOT target low-value services identified by @A_Schwa et al.

Join O-Lab on 10/9 for a series of presentations on some of the best new work in education and healthcare policy! With Chris Walters, Jon Kolstad Ziad Obermeyer Ben Handel Claudia B Allende @SethDZimmerman Petra Persson @rothstein_jesse Register here! 👉 olab.berkeley.edu/olab-events

Consumer choice quality in markets for health insurance depends on socio-economic status, education, and one's peers. Granular evidence from the entire country of the Netherlands, from Ben Handel, Jonathan T. Kolstad, Thomas Minten, and Johannes Spinnewijn nber.org/papers/w27785

Pre-doc position to work at Berkeley on health economics research with Jon Kolstad and me. Please distribute to any good candidates! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…

An exciting lineup of papers and discussants for the NBER Insurance Meeting tomorrow (10/22). Program: nber.org/conferences/in… Livestream on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC79EL…

REStat will sponsor 5 early-career researchers from under-represented groups in the U.S. to attend the applied microeconomics meetings at the 2023 NBER Summer Inst (July 24-28) Applications due April 18th: zcu.io/DczD #econtwitter Ray Fisman

A reminder that applications are due *Tuesday*.

Looking forward to teaching health economics module with Matt Notowidigdo at the AEA Continuing Education program in San Antonio next January.

The causal interpretation of instrumental variables estimands of nonlinear, multivariate structural models with respect to rich forms of model misspecification, from Isaiah Andrews, Nano Barahona, Matthew Gentzkow, Ashesh Rambachan, and Jesse M. Shapiro nber.org/papers/w31799

What is Change Healthcare and why does its cyberattack matter? Health economist Ben Handel spoke with STAT's Bob Herman. trib.al/6FVMtQG