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COMPIE 2024 conference - (COunterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 24-26 June, 2024 Call for papers: knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/… Local organization with @nadineketel supported by VU School of Business and Economics (inactief) and Tinbergen Institute

Our VoxEU piece on out-of-pocket payments for nursing home residents. How do we design co-payments for LTC that stimulate efficient use AND offer sufficient financial protection to older populations? With Marianne Tenand and @pieter_bakx. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… via CEPR

New paper by Owen O'Donnell ESHPM ErasmusUniRdam ErasmusESE reviews the evidence showing that ill-health causes poverty and health systems can reduce poverty: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal…

I've updated my Short History of Global Living Conditions. here it is: ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-g…

Ons onderzoek naar het effect van langer wachten op een plek in het verpleeghuis. Ouderen langer op een plek laten wachten leidt tot minder kosten in de verpleeghuiszorg, maar juist tot aanzienlijk extra uitgaven aan thuiszorg en ziekenhuiszorg.

Check out publication No. 2024005 in the EsCHER Working Paper Series. “What we know, can know and need to know about the causes of health inequality.” by Owen O'Donnell! eur.nl/en/research/re…

Want to know more about EsCHER? Have a look at this introductionary video on the Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam ESHPM ErasmusUniRdam ErasmusESE Erasmus University Eddy Van Doorslaer Stefan Lipman youtu.be/4wGJez2Yua4?fe…

Fantastisch en broodnodig stuk van Wouter Duyck. Laat ons stoppen met de school te therapeutiseren. Degenen die echt onder mentale problemen lijden, zullen dan de hulp krijgen die ze nodig hebben. standaard.be/cnt/dmf2024100…

UPCOMING WEBINAR on the effects of abolishing co-payments for #SocialAssistance in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 In this webinar from the #QuasiExperimentalMethods Interest Group, Bram Wouterse presents #research insights.🔍 JOIN US ON 19 NOV: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regist… @JoanCostaiFont

Vandaag in de Volkskrant AD.nl: Kabinet, maak niet kapot wat ons land zo succesvol maakt. Stop met de onverantwoorde #bezuinigingen op wetenschap. Bezuinigen op #wetenschap is bezuinigen op de toekomst van Nederland. Ondertekend door de leden van de De KNAW en De Jonge Akademie

Do a benefit cost analysis of US AID and you will be hard-pressed to find another agency that does so much good per dollar spent. We should be grateful to people like Atul who has taken time from his medical practice to help the poor, sick and starving around the world.

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

Heel interessant nieuw cijfer vanuit Eurostat en Statistics Belgium. De loonkloof tussen mannen en vrouwen bedraagt nog amper 0,7%. Tien jaar geleden was dat nog 7,5%! Daarmee zit België helemaal vooraan de Europese klas.

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De Belgische 10j rente is deze week met 0,5% gestegen (vnl. door EU aankondigingen extra defensie-uitgaven). Structureel (op termijn) kost dat ons evenveel als het opschalen van de defensie-uitgaven zelf... NB: in begrotingstabel stond er 360mln "besparing" op rente-uitgaven

When you lied on your resume but still got the job.. 😂

How did we get here? Donald Trump tanked the economy based on a book his son-in-law found on Amazon. He told Jared Kushner to find him an economic advisor—someone who could make him “look tough” and talk tough on China. Jared searched Amazon, saw a book called Death by China,

Individuals who died of Covid-19 were often in poor health, but there was a lot of variation: one in 5 people who died of Covid-19 in the Netherlands had an above average life expectancy. We show this in our new paper in Epidemiology. journals.lww.com/epidem/abstrac…

Imagine saving 6 lives every minute, every day, for 50 years. That's what vaccines have done — protecting at least 154 million lives in the last five decades. Because of vaccines, more babies reach their first birthday than ever before. Measles shots alone account for 60% of