This week on #TheHiddenCurriculum, we talk with Sarah Miller on how to access restricted data! Sarah has had a lot of experience working with restricted dataset and give us a peek into that process!

Happy to see this project I worked on with Andrew Friedson, Maggie Switek, & Bumyang Kim get released this week. The report reveals the disconnect between clinical trials and where high-prevalence populations are located - areas to target for future trials: milkeninstitute.org/report/clinica…

In our June Tech Regulation Digest, Associate Leilani Jimemez digs into the logistics and potential outcomes of the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple, including how regulatory changes might impact the entire tech industry. Read the full report here:

Khoa Vu I think the saddest thing I heard in my career were colleagues telling me they would be a better parent someday when kids were older and papers were published. Sadly, that day never comes. Life is happening now.

"Employers want to be able to have choice and accessibility - and balance that with reduction in overall costs. These issues are important to employers, but they're also important to the beneficiaries, who have to deal with cost-sharing and out-of-pocket costs." Director

Senior Director Maggie Switek wrote a new op-ed published by the U.S.-Mexico Foundation on the North Capital Forum website, titled "Beyond the Headlines: China’s Real Role in Mexico’s Wealth Production” where she digs into China’s complex investments in Mexico and also analyzes how these

Every time I think Sarah has written her best paper she comes out with something better. 🐐

EVERYBODY SHUT UP the plane they use to fly the horses from all over the world to the Olympics for the equestrian events is called AIR HORSE ONE

Olympics announcer before Simone Biles’ floor exercise: “this is the kinda thing you’ll talk to your kids about.” My dad, after Simone Biles’ floor exercise: “I guess I gotta talk to you about that floor exercise.” Holding that in for 2 minutes won him the dad joke gold.

Tenure packet vs sabbatical application

9yo: “Dad, ask me something, I bet I know it.” Me: “What’s the airspeed velocity of a swallow?” 9yo: “Do you even know that?” Me: “Well are we talking about an African swallow or a European swallow?”

Medical debt is correlated with mental health. Authors suggest debt bad for mental health - totally possible. Also possible: mental health is insufficiently covered and a contributor to medical debt. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

For health economists interested in physician decision making, Janet Currie's new NBER working paper includes a 22 page appendix with some of the best papers in this area, all in a tabular format. This will become indispensable to me.

In the crossover event you didn't know you needed, I'm part of a proposed SXSW panel on the economics of dementia, please vote here to help make it happen! panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/148060

Great work Michael Kofoed

does anyone have a convenient way to grab MSA level BRFSS responses for self reported health?

1/ In our latest episode of #TheHiddenCurriculum, we had a great discussion with Sam about navigating academia as a queer economist.