WashU now has an influential leader of its planned new School of Public Health! As the inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean, effective Jan. 1, Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, will help establish & shape WashU’s newest school in 100 years. Congratulations & welcome! t.ly/vPWPG

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] 🧵

I wanted to do this because I think people likely would want to know details like this as they contemplate writing a book themselves.

English translation: ~20,000 sold
Japanese translation: ~2300 sold
Chinese translation: ~ 10,000 sold
Total: 32,300 sold

Excited to release the program for the 13th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, set to take place in Opatija, Croatia on July 4-5, 2024.
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tylercowen Jonathan Haidt JH: What if humans accidentally cut out vitamin D and started getting scurvy?

TC: That’s what the Aztecs did. They put nixtamal in their tortillas

Quintessential Tyler Cowen moment. Just instantly pulls out some obscure historical analogue. Incredible.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Jennifer Doleac Some of us repeatedly asked the reporters and the editor to not have our name in the piece at all, but they refused to respect that preference. Ironic that a piece written in the name of supporting women in economics ignores the clear wishes of a woman about whom they wrote.

“Separating Scarring Effect & Selection of Early-Life Exposures With Genetic Data”: Shiro Furuya Fengyi Zheng Qiongshi Lu Jason Fletcher employ genetic data to improve 'our understanding of the long-run effects of childhood.” UW-Madison CDHA UW-Madison CDE UW–Madison
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Congrats to Michael Topping for his 7th publication as a graduate student at UW-Madison Sociology
This paper in Soc Sci & Medicine shows that links between education and older adult pain are actually broader family background effects, using UK Biobank
Ungated for awhile: tinyurl.com/53uufpc4

New: After Promising to Make Government Health Care Data More Accessible, the Biden Administration Now Wants to Clamp Down propublica.org/article/cms-pr…

New work by Zijie Zhao on Valentine's Day! We noticed that many studies adjust for PGS in regressions and claim that they've 'controlled for genetics'. We show that this doesn't do anything, and introduce PENGUIN to solve this using GWAS sumstats
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’ve successfully filed 8 FOIAs and won 3 FOIA lawsuits. The following thread is a guide to filing a FOIA request as a researcher, including templates and real example filings.

Please RT! If this thread is helpful, I'll write a Part 2 on filing FOIA lawsuits.

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Just got the email from CMSGov that they are planning to discontinue physical access to the Medicare/Medicaid research files and force everyone to use the (incredibly expensive) VRDC. In the transition, they'll charge physical data users $10K/year to renew DUAs. This is bad.