Physician and health economist at Penn.
I study opportunity, hope, and health @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/atheendar/
Atheendar Venkataramani
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2/ Also, the discussion on the other site is, for the most part, super interesting and I learned a lot.
Is X wayyy better than this site for learning about new methods/papers, etc?
Help me rewrite my paper!
Would you rather see:
1. Noisier (with mostly flat pretrends) in a standard TWFE with sample restrictions that follow history/theory
2. Flat pretrends + more precisely estimated coefs in Synthetic DID
(Refs seem to be skeptical about 2. Baseline is hard bec noise for 1)
1/ Really impressed by @caitlinmyers.bsky.social's response to comments on her team's paper on iphones and fertility on the other site (www.nber.org/papers/w35310).
It takes courage to take on big questions. And it takes equanimity to cut through the noise and strengthen the argument.
Sherry Glied and I have critiqued the recent analysis on the impact of Medicaid work requirements on poverty. It is linked here: : www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Unfortunately, Professors Mulligan and Bai who appear to have led the work get a failing grade on this one.
