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I announced 2 packages for Stata that speed up Sergio Correia's amazing reghdfe by ~10X. "jl" bridges to Julia. reghdfejl runs on top. It mimics reghdfe, but calls Julia. See statalist.org/forum…. Please follow directions under Installation in "help jl".

In latest @CapAndFreedom ep, Steve Levitt talks his career & retiring as The University of Chicago prof while still leading RISC & Freakonomics. We talk applied economics, Chicago econ dept (price theory failure, macro success, personalities), Freakonomics origin & more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ste…

Black workers in large US cities live closer to jobs and “good” jobs than whites, suggesting that spatial mismatch is unlikely to be a major source of racial earnings gaps, from David Card, @rothstein_jesse, and Moises Yi nber.org/papers/w32252

Evidence of widespread "tunneling" in the nursing home industry: providers extract profits by making inflated payments for goods and services to commonly owned related parties, effectively hiding 63% of profits in 2019, from Ashvin Gandhi and Andrew Olenski nber.org/papers/w32258

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors. We summarize our findings below. econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

Done another semester teaching causal inference🙂. Updated my course slides, added survival data, labs, corrected more typos this time. Close to 800 pages now. Always more to update next year. www2.stat.duke.edu/~fl35/CausalIn…

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Not in a million years would I have thought universities mobilized riot cops to deal with student protestors. This is disgraceful.

Thrilled to share our latest work with Adrien Bilal! Check out our new working paper: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝘀. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Read here: bit.ly/4bsxvU0 Thread below👇

We have an update to our Unexpected Compression paper. Data is still through June 2023, but there are additional analyses and improved estimates. I list a few of these in the thread below. 1/ nber.org/system/files/w…

🧵 1/ What’s at stake with race-based equations for lung function? Clinical, occupational, and financial reclassifications for millions of patients. I’m delighted to share this labor of love, published today in NEJM and unveiled at #ATS2024. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Twitter academia: 1. I am happy to announce xx (whatever trivial) 2. I am thrilled/excited that xx (papers, grants, promotion) 3. I am honored that xx ("awards" in all senses) Adding to that list now: "How I publish xx papers in x years" What next? How I become god?

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

Workers appear to undervalue COVID-19 risks compared to traditional physical hazards, from Cong Gian, Sumedha Gupta, Kosali Simon, Ryan Sullivan, and Coady Wing nber.org/papers/w33031