'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.
Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.
Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
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AI not liking my meeting style
It was truly unbelievable!
This is the closest thing economists have to consensus statements or economic policy guidelines.
American science is shrinking.
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV
Is there data on this?
Culture and Health handbook chapter - honered to provide a lecture to iHEA - youtu.be/5CLi_XCd2fM slides available here healthinequalitylab.org/research/wor...
Treatment First shows no lasting health gains, while Housing First also reduces costs by lowering long inpatient stays.
drive.google.com/file/d/1C0gv...
5/21
In her JMP, she uses a national sample of nearly 300,000 unhoused, mentally ill veterans to show that Housing First cuts 3-year mortality by 4.6 percentage points compared with no program.
4/21
Sydney Costantini is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research focuses on public, labor, and political economics.
3/21
We had a last minute cancellation: does anyone with policy experience working in federal administrative agencies want to come talk to my HKS admin law seminar tomorrow (Friday 4/17) at 1pm ET about the role of policy experts in federal agencies?
Happy to do remote - DM me if interested!
AJHE is now online! Our social media editor, Anna Chorniy, will be posting summaries of our accepted papers.
“We know it’s more expensive/toxic than the status quo, but now we also know it’s not much worse with respect to efficacy.” not a great sales pitch.
Doesn’t make sense for drugs that fail to dominate the status quo on both costs and side effects.
For me the concept of non-inferiority will never not be witchcraft, and I almost always find myself revisiting this visualization in the linked FDA Guidance to figure out what's going on.
www.fda.gov/regulatory-i...
A win for the Yinzers.
Some good journalism news.
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which runs The Baltimore Banner and financed by hotel magnate Stewart W. Bainum Jr. is buying the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and will run it as a nonprofit.
#media #culture #newspapers #publishing
Hey, #EconSky! The administration is trying to cut NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Click below to contact your representatives and urge them to save it. Tell your friends. Our research matters and is worth funding!
www.congressweb.com/COSSA/58?fra...
I knew Rebecca a little from time at Swarthmore. Her name crossed my mind, I remembered her diagnosis, and I googled her, half expecting to find an obituary.
Remarkable story of misdiagnosis. Former college/university president resigned because she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Seven years later, she has no signs/symptoms of the disease. www.cpr.org/2026/03/04/a...
You kid, but I once had mine rejected and didn’t realize it for months 😬
Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military,” by Greenberg, Wasserman, and Weber: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Today, guest lecturer Sean McElligott presented our students with this chart breaking down branded and generic pharmaceutical spending.
Check out that last panel. Should patients be spending most of their copays on generic drugs when generics are such a small % of drug costs?
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
"AHRQ hasn’t funded any new research projects in almost a year, and it hasn’t issued grant funding for existing projects since before the end of the previous fiscal year in September."
Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet.
What are we doing here?
While teaching instrumental variables tonight (the 2nd night of Passover), I somehow found myself describing compliers, defiers, always-takers and never-takers as the four children from the haggadah (the wise one, the wicked one, the simple one, and the one who doesn't know how to ask).
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
