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This paper with @mfranevans and Jessamyn Schaller has just been conditionally accepted in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) as a short paper! 🥂 Updated 🧵 below after super-useful revisions. Also, this is my third paper in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) -- do I get a loyalty card?

We have a new paper out in Health Affairs Scholar #HAScholar which describes cash pay rates for psychotherapists and compares this to Medicaid rates. academic.oup.com/healthaffairss… Mean difference between cash pay and Medicaid rates was about 40%, likely an underestimate

PSA: If you're planning on fasting for Yom Kippur, now is when you want to be hydrating.

When choosing what to write, one thing I think a lot about is the difference between what topics and tone would be personally most fun for me, and what topics and tone will do my institution or my causes the most good. I think these guys could think harder about that

Great piece by Stephen Nuñez about SSI. Crucial program, but lots of harsh $ rules recipients must abide by. If there’s a benefit program in need of reform/enhancements, this would be it.

A great paper, and a fun little case study in economics publishing timelines for the medicine and public health folk:

Partha Deb, Jeff Wooldridge Jeffrey Wooldridge , Jeff Zabel, and I are pleased that our new difference-in-differences paper is available as an NBER working paper.

(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...

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a great resource for folks doing health politics!

Shavua Tov. A livestream of me at break-fast.

This has exciting implications for broader availability of assistive technology on the consumer market: nytimes.com/2024/10/12/hea…

Some familiar but still-necessary points in here from my friend Ari Ne'eman and others:

It is scary being an American Jew right now. We go to synagogues that are fortified with armed guards and police. Kids go to schools that have layers of security. Campuses and cities are filled with antisemitism. This isn't the world I grew up in. It's disgusting and

There is a direct line between demonizing Israel, tolerating antisemitic hate speech in the public square, and violent action. We are now witnessing the deadly consequences of months of relentless antisemitic incitement—amplified by international organizations and political

Work requirement would go all the up to age 65, allows up to a year lookback, and if you lose Medicaid, you can't get an ACA premium subsidy to buy an ACA plan. Locked out. Republicans Pass Strictest Medicaid Work Requirement They Have Ever Put Forward nytimes.com/2025/05/22/ups…