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Rising healthcare costs 🟰 employment & earnings ⬇️; suicides & overdoses ⬆️. New from Harris Policy's Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Ithai Lurie, & Corbin Miller. w/ The Wall Street Journal coverage from Melanie Evans, Andrew Mollica, & Josh Ulick. ow.ly/uyUV50SoaqI

Front page of The Wall Street Journal: ⬆️ 1% health care prices causes ⬆️ insurance premiums which causes ⬇️ 0.3% income and ⬇️ 0.1% employment According to an NBER article by Zarek Brot-Goldberg Zack Cooper Stuart Craig Corbin Miller Lev Klarnet

When estimating demand, the price coefficient may be biased because firms adjust prices in response to demand shocks. In this (forthcoming) paper, Nathan Miller and I show how to resolve this source of endogeneity by invoking the supply side in standard empirical models.

A really great paper with compelling evidence that nursing homes illegally dump less profitable patients to make room for more profitable ones!

An overlooked answer to Ulam's request for social science ideas that are true and non-trivial: the theory of tax incidence. Almost no one without econ training gets that the person who sends a check to the govt isn't the person who loses money on net as a result of a tax.

Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums. The result? ⬇️ employment ⬇️ wages ⬇️ tax revenue ⬆️ overdoses ow.ly/YlsE50SKtbe Harris Policy's Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Ithai Lurie, & Corbin Miller.

ever since i was a little girl i wanted to fill a gap in the literature

The human mind wasn’t built for thinking about Pennsylvania every four years

Join my fantastic department - we're hiring in health economics & health policy! This is a tenure track assistant prof job. If you are going on the market with a PhD in economics, health policy, public health, or a related field, it's likely a great fit. 🔗aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Come work with me, Zarek Brot-Goldberg, and Josh Gottlieb on health economics research at UChicago as a Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Research Professional! Deadline is rolling, but we plan to start reviewing applications later this month.

.New York HPA #AnnualConference #CoveringNY: Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices – examining the impact of rising health care prices and challenges of making health coverage affordable, with @Stuartcraig of Wisconsin School of Business and @cdphp president Brian O’Grady

My new paper - Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector? - with Zarek Brot-Goldberg Stuart Craig & Lev Klarnet was just published in AER: Impact (AEA Journals). A Thread

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

This is also reminding me ~7th-grade me used to play a Sims/Theme Park style game called "Theme Hospital" in which you build/manage a system of hospitals in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Hos…

Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums. The result? ⬇️ employment ⬇️ wages ⬇️ tax revenue ⬆️ overdoses ow.ly/YlsE50SKtbe Harris Policy's Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Ithai Lurie, & Corbin Miller.

The problem was that the “conversation” was mostly about how much people hated paper straws. This high salience, low impact policy is the exact opposite of what we should have done. Instead replace grid generation with renewables. Nobody inconvenienced and huge impact.

I import way more data into Stata than I export and I’m sick getting ripped off.