This story is insane. Congress passed a no surprise billing law that instead made doctors arbitrate with insurers over surgery costs. A few doctors are massively exploiting it to get six figure awards, and massively driving up healthcare costs.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
computer touchers: "build your own harness and use local models" feels like a maybe reasonable answer here; any recs on good templates or models to look into?
After the introduction of the German minimum wage, workers in low-wage occupations reported increases in work pressure. This reflects having to work faster, more pressure to perform, more need to multitask.
Interesting new working paper by Nagler & @erwinwinkler7.bsky.social
I looked into a gonzo First Things essay that argues women are using the government "prop up" their employment.
It's wrong, but it's wrong in an interesting way. Men actually increased thier employment *within* industry, but female industries grew faster.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/the-girlbo...
counterpoint: Instagram not knowing anything about me means all of my ads are for stuff like Sqwincher or ATTENTION DENTIST
My book (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...
Re-upping this one in light of discourse
I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of
@reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2!
Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky
"Equilibria, Folds, and Escapes" Revised paper with new title, new analytic results, and 70% longer (mostly appendix, text is ~10% longer). I characterize both the mean path of stochastic models and the most likely large deviations via deterministic differential equations. (1/3)
What job category do you think slowed down the most in 2025?
A deep dive into the cross-section of non-citizens and the 2025 jobs slowdown, recent pickup, and question of slowing wages. A post that asks more questions than it answers.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/the-cross-...
1/ New paper 🚨! (Ok, not quite new...) I'm very pleased to share that — after a long journey — my job market paper is finally out in the world.
It asks: Why do regions decline?
Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767
#EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.
Here’s what we found 👇
You might be interested in my paper! In our model monopsony has direct relevance for the passthrough of shocks to workers and implications for income risk. There will be a new draft soon but I think the core stuff is in this version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
These event-study designs are surely biased, maybe upwards (timing of birth is endogenous) or maybe downwards (bad controls). The reporting ignores the identification problem. I suggest everyone read this before endorsing yet another event-study design: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
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Three bad auctions this week, deteriorating market depth, dealers turning off autoquotes on Monday www.ft.com/content/2e01...
One of the most important issues for the world over the coming century is population growth, and here is a widely accessible introduction to the issues: www.aeaweb.org/issues/836
One pleasure of following an area of research for a long time is getting to see how its academic literature becomes both deeper and broader.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/kidn...
Please Share! The Environmental Inequality Lab is hosting it's second undergraduate research training program in environmental and energy economics this summer & it's open to all (with current U.S. work authorization)!
Full-time, funded, in-person, 10-weeks.
More details here tinyurl.com/EEE-URTP
The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents
In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do
SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment
No exaggeration, I think this is one of the most important stories in US health care. MAHA makes a lot more sense if you see it as a hostile takeover by the quackery industry
I blogged about data model and likelihood being different things and importance of using these terms correctly (with some excerpts from the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book, but we talk about these much more in the book)
Almost a year ago now, I asked the health policy hive mind what they wished they had learned about the federal regulatory process while they were still in grad school
I'm still firming up readings for a few sessions, but the class that emerged out of that brainstorming exercise kicks off on Monday
VCU was an 11 seed back in 2011, btw
Great piece by @soumayakeynes.ft.com on AI in economics in today’s FT (link at end) featuring Refine.ink.
Indeed, Refine regularly catches issues that need correcting but are missed by even the most rigorous current review processes.
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