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🚨New working paper!🚨 Non-Binary Gender Economics. Gender econ has almost exclusively measured gender as binary. But 1+ million people in US identify as non-binary. Nat'l Academies + American Psych Assn recommend better measurement of gender v. bio sex. nber.org/papers/w32222

More to see over there.

Post election takes, but not here. On 🟦☁️.

I feel like "top spokesperson" — while technically correct! — actually undersells this story. The person who resigned after less than two weeks was the *HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs*

My public comment opposing the proposed changes eliminating the X gender marker on passports. practicingeconomist.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

With liquidity constraints, moral hazard can be welfare-enhancing. Revisiting the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment finds Medicaid is twice as valuable if living hand-to-mouth, from Keith Marzilli Ericson (he/him/his), @JohannesJasper2, and @JustinSydnor nber.org/papers/w33648

My dad was an FBI agent when he was ordered to arrest Japanese Americans for internment. He did it for a day, quit, joined the Navy, and spent three years fighting in the South Pacific, 28 island landings. Never regretted his decision. His lesson was, "You can always say no."

Lowering administrative burdens raises take-up of subsidized health plans more than reminder nudges. Just Accepted new paper by K. Marzilli Ericson (Keith Marzilli Ericson (he/him/his)), T. J. Layton (Timothy Layton), A. McIntyre (Adrianna McIntyre (@adrianna.bsky.social)) and A. Sacarny (Adam Sacarny) zurl.co/js0uP

We're talking a lot about Medicaid cuts these days. So what's the benefit of the Medicaid program? Well, expanding Medicaid saves lives and lowers teenage pregancy. In the long-run, the program also pays for itself. A Thread

A team of experts has spent countless hours poking through every nook and cranny of this paper. It's such a waste that all that information is then locked away from public, who need the experts help in learning what they can conclude from the paper. /end

This is possibly the most important issue in the US right now. The federal government is, without due process, sending human beings with no criminal record, who are here legally, to a horrific prison in another country. And lying about it, to the courts and the American people.

Please, join a protest for democracy this Saturday, June 14th. America deserves better and can be better.

Census has announced the initial disclosure control plan for 2030. It doesn't look good. /1