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This fact alone reveals that we need bright-line rules. Even if we had the most vigorous DOJ and FTC (and likely if private merger enforcement were revived), it would not be enough. Bright-line rules cut through all the wasted time and resources and just stop the merger frenzy.

It's my first episode with Tradeoffs and I'm talking with Dan Gorenstein about health care inflation and what happened after the Trump White House required hospitals to make their prices public. Listen here: shows.acast.com/170f7fea-3078-… via Acast

🚨Janet Currie and I are hiring a health econ postdoc to join us at Yale Department of Economics and Tobin Center for Economic Policy! It's a one year position with the option to renew. Looking for an early-career scholar who wants to develop a high-impact, policy-relevant portfolio. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980 Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009 New working paper with Josh Gottlieb, Kevin Rinz, and Victoria Udalova w/ key facts on the rise of healthcare jobs

I am incredibly excited to share that I will be joining The LBJ School at UT Austin as an Assistant Professor in July 2025! 1/3

Union Health is proposing to merge with Terre Haute Regional Hospital. The deal with create a de facto monopoly and raise prices by 20% and lead to 800 job losses in the community. See our public comment on the deal. tobin.yale.edu/sites/default/… tribstar.com/news/local_new…

Columbia, Penn and other elite schools have drawn the ire of the Trump administration. But regional universities like SIU Carbondale are poised to take the greatest hit if funding is cut. Molly Parker has a great piece on what that means: propublica.org/article/region…

Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on the effects of US tariffs on China: "The Chinese will come out of this [trade war] better than we will. I think we have done a lot of damage to ourselves in terms of dealing with the rest of the world."

Impressed by the letter Indiana AG Todd Rokita sent opposing the merger of Union Health and Terre Haute Regional Hospital. He gets the economics totaly right. All politics are local, so it took some political courage to write. image.subscription.in.gov/lib/fe2e117473…

Join us in congratulating Faculty Director Steven Berry on his election to the National Academy of Sciences (National Academy of Sciences)! Read the announcement here: tobin.yale.edu/news/250502/st…

Excited to announce that I will be joining the Economics Department at Yale this upcoming fall! Incredibly sad to leave Austin and my wonderful colleagues at UT, but excited for what's ahead. In related news: come work with @codyfcook and I as a Tobin Pre-Doc! Posting linked ⬇️

So excited that this will be out in the world tomorrow! And grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

really interesting NBER working paper out today by Carolina Arteaga and colleagues: when a spouse gets sick, there is also a substantial deterioration in the partner's health outlook — an uptick in hospital visits (↑10%), overnight stays (↑8%), and even mortality (↑2%). The

Welcome to Yale University, Janet Currie! More about Professor Currie: tobin.yale.edu/news/250709/we… A fact sheet on her brand new paper about life expectancy in California: tobin.yale.edu/research/life-…