Econ Prof living in OKC | Applied micro, Environmental/Energy/Labor mostly | Always have dirty hands 🪴👨🏼🌾 #nativeplants
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New WP, just in time for #ASHEcon26! What started off as a project to learn LLM use for text analysis turned accidentally into a paper about stigma.
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US drinking water pollution has fallen rapidly; Safe Drinking Water Act loans reduce pollution and save lives. Analyzing 266 million pollution readings, from Keiser, @bhashmazumder.bsky.social, @davidmolitor.bsky.social, and @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35288
Manasvini Singh
Welp, looks like my plan to watch a few Taskmaster reruns totally worked.
You’re welcome, New York
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4/5 Bottleneck Thursday - Reality: "Aurora modeled what adding 10 GW of data center load in ERCOT without adding new transmission lines would do to the grid, and the consequences were stark: quintupling congestion costs and spiking power prices by 34%."
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Examining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277
Travis Roach
Looking forward to talking about The Wage Standard tomorrow in OKC!
Developers have announced 780 GW of projects. But the barriers to actually building are getting higher by the day.
Does cleaning up drinking water save lives?
New paper: We link US federal drinking water investments to Medicare records and find they reduce mortality among older Americans, with benefit/cost ratio>20.
Thread on what we did...
w/ Keiser, @bhashmazumder.bsky.social , @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social
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David Molitor
People who consumed 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine a day were less likely to develop coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes or stroke.
(Some) findings:
1. Just-obese patients have higher in-hospital mortality than almost-obese patients.
2. Just-obese patients get less diagnostic effort than almost-obese patients, in line with a stigma-based discrimination story.
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