Today, we are proud to introduce the #JusticeOutcomesExplorer ! JOE is a publicly available data dashboard that provides a fresh glimpse into how the criminal justice system touches the lives of millions of Americans every year: joe.cjars.org [1/10] 🧵

Covid, dengue, cholera, malaria…

You’d think if the pandemic taught us anything it might be the value of investing early and big in vaccine supply.

Today NHS England will begin, for the first time, to report regularly from the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLMDS). But that isn't the only big change in today's Referral-to-Treatment (RTT) data that you need to be ready for... (1/5) #nhswaits

Done. LIMITED our economic growth
Done. REDUCED our nation’s potential
Done. A PETTY exercise in racism and bullying to pander to a few racists on the Tory right.

NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

Read Nick Ridpath Sarah Cattan Pedro Carneiro’s report, funded by Nuffield Foundation: ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

We are looking for post-doctoral fellows to join us at Harvard Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health!

Research areas include:
1. Medicare Advantage
2. Dual Eligibles
3. New Medicare APMs
4. Quality/Equity/Social Risk
5. PE/consolidation

If interested, pls email CV to [email protected]

Are the conservatives using Dall-E to generate their promotional material?

Thrilled to see this out in the next issue of the QJE!

Expanding public options. When should state-owned companies compete with the private sector? aeaweb.org/research/publi…

For the first time NHS England has produced modelling that combines planning its future services and planning its long-term workforce needs.

This is a significant achievement. But our review identifies improvements that must be made.

Read our report 👇

nao.org.uk/reports/nhs-en…

This is important from the NAO.

As someone who has spent a lot of time reading the NHS workforce plan (particularly its appendices!), I have been sitting on a few thoughts, and it feels like a good time to share them.

The plan is clearly a major achievement, but...

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Pleased to share that my JMP is now forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)! My findings shed light on a troubling reality🚨 A $3 billion investment in sewerage infrastructure went amiss: poorly implemented works increased child mortality [1/6]

Thank you to the CBE@UCI undergrads for selecting me as professor of the year!
This award is truly special!

Article accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected]: Andreas Wiedemann and I show how support for welfare/redistribution varies by local area in the UK, how this has changed over time, + implications for the left when its core supporters are clustered in urban areas journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…? Core findings...

Forthcoming in REStud:

'Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program' by Martha Bailey, Hilary Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater, & reed walker

doi.org/10.1093/restud…

WHOA!

NYC reports it has almost completely eliminated its (VERY LARGE) backlog for SNAP (food stamps) and cash aid!

And they did it by... reducing administrative burden! Namely, they are waiving the 6-month report!!

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

3 JMPs this year (!) find pollution-haven effects in battery recycling:
1. @elitzow et al in Mexico: erinlitzow.github.io/MyFiles/JMP_Li…
2. Gerald Ipapa in Kenya: drive.google.com/file/d/1-00MNO….
3. Moogdho Mahzab et al in Bangladesh: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yd5W0p…
There seems to be a pattern here.

People should really put 'in the US' in these abstracts