Traffic fatalities increase on the days of major music album releases, when online streaming to mobile devices surges, raising the possibility of driver distraction, from Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu, and Anupam B. Jena www.nber.org/papers/w34866
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📢 Call for Papers – #EHEW2026
Empirical Health Economics Workshop
📍 Milan (Univ. Milano-Bicocca) | 🗓 July 9–11, 2026
📝 Empirical & policy-oriented research in #HealthEconomics
⏰ Deadline: March 31, 2026
Innovative methods to measure mortality beyond age 50 in LMICs are needed. This study evaluates the potential of parental survival histories, in which respondents provide data on their parents’ ages, and if deceased, their age at death and date of death. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
Paolo Berta
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🤔 How do researchers overcome complexities when combining different studies or data sets to answer specific #research questions?
Check out #Longitools blog post on data harmonisation and how we went about this process in the LongITools project. #exposome
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(Spring 2010) - My first reaction to "The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics," authored by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, was: Wow! This paper makes a stunningly good case...