Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!
Another reminder that undertreated high blood pressure has real consequences. A physician bonus tied to blood pressure targets led to fewer medication increases for patients with borderline hypertension, and those patients then experienced more heart attacks and strokes.
This is a fantastic and rare (!) example of authors of a published paper and the author of a comment on that paper working together to fix the scientific record. Kudos to all involved. This is not easy, even with good faith all around. @droodman.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social #EconSky
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
A theory of university parking (and fireworks)
www.economicforces.xyz/p/parking-fi...
I hate a bad haircut as much as the next guy, but this seems disproportionate....
I have some on my Google Scholar page as well
"[Novartis, Amgen and Lilly are] developing medicines that lower the level of lipoprotein(a), a fatty particle in the blood that is known as Lp(a)... Tens of millions of people in the U.S. have elevated Lp(a), an inherited and largely hidden driver of heart disease."
www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...
On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
confirmed here by multiple sources!!
another fun rumor is apparently the small and inexperienced firm taking over will subcontract the work back to ResDAC! I can feel the efficiency growing!
Why do universities have persistent shortages of parking? Why do states allow you to purchase fireworks, but not set them off?
www.economicforces.xyz
Pharmaceutical companies have spent years targeting a common blood particle associated with heart-attack risks.
New diff-in-diff paper in @jamainternalmed.com. We document some unintended consequences of a hypertension control quality metric and financial incentive -- one that's widely used in US healthcare. In the overall population with hypertension there were almost no impacts, but..
🚨 CORRIGENDUM ALERT 🚨
A decade after Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back was published in AEJ: Applied, we've just published an official corrigendum with the AEA.
This is a love story. 🧵
Commentary: To get a license from Illinois to cut hair, aspiring barbers must complete the same number of training hours commercial airline pilots are required to log for flight training: 1,500. It’s nearly double the 640 hours required for Illinois State Police officers.
#EconSky: check in on your Google Scholar page. It is not ok.
Screenshot is one of three hallucinated articles I found on my profile, clearly a downstream product of someone's AI hallucinations.
Supposedly they are shutting down ResDAC in 5 weeks, and, I’m told, replacing them with a totally novice firm with no experience/expertise in Medicare data.
