Ministers must do final drafting with close involvement of HMT and PM. This is beginning to look like a farce as pen is passed between advisers and officials. Whose plan is this? Alastair McLellan Sarah Woolnough Hugh Alderwick Sally Layla Moran 🔶🕊️

Here are the top causes of mortality in England in 2022: The NHS rightly spends a lot to minimise avoidable deaths (stopping smoking, preventing covid etc.)...

It's becoming very obvious that generative AI is making all forms of non-exam assessment totally obsolete. It's a threat to the integrity of education everywhere. It's not that hard to solve though - we just need more handwritten & in-person exams!

An interviewer just asked me what skills AI will make more important. My response? Critical thinking skills. This is because in the past there was value in creating large quantities of information. That is now costless. The new currency is how to generate, assimilate,

The editorial boards of seven leading health econ journals are taking a stand today against political influence and ideological attacks on peer review and academia. No matter what you study we want to see your scholarship and will NEVER collaborate with suppression. Please repost

🤔How did the pandemic change the use of home care by older people in England? Tune in on 5 June to hear NIHR ESHCRU researcher Anastasia Arabadzhyan explain.

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I’m very AI-forward but I don’t think these people understand what most white collar jobs are: communicating with other people about work tasks (ie emails/meetings) are a huge part of modern workplaces and will be hard to automate with AI tools.

EXCLUSIVE: Golub has a blunt warning: Golub's network-theoretic advances may be so dazzling that they damage the eyes of innocent bystanders

This is wrong. I talk to folks at the big AI labs all the time. Biggest errors they make, economically: 1) how long it takes to shift the structure of institutions and what this means for diffusion, 2) AI is acomplement for some tasks, not just a substitute, 3) prices adjust. 1/3

Last week 7 leading journals (including Health Economics) distributed a joint statement on editorial independence and academic freedom. Today, IHEA joins our statement in solidarity. See the endorsement on their homepage: healtheconomics.org

We have a new Institute for Fiscal Studies report out on the key decisions for the govt at the upcoming Spending Review. A short thread on what the Spending Review could mean for health spending – and why health spending matters so much for everything else. 1/12

In summary, given the size of health spending and the slow growth in planned overall spending, the government faces a really challenging and important trade-off at the Spending Review between increasing health spending and increasing spending on everything else. 12/12

New blog post where I explain why I disagree with this, and why I have slightly longer timelines to AGI than many of my guests. I think continual learning is a huge bottleneck to the usefulness of these models, and extended computer use may take years to sort out. L-nk below.

This is huge... "I argue, the `Synthetic Control Method' is so flimsy that economists do not even need to be aware that they have p-hacked their research design. It can happen by default because everything is left to subjective choice."

I think this view overrates what LLMs can genuinely do for research. ChatGPT Deep Research is remarkably shallow, so lit reviews aren't going to be helped that much. The writing phase of empirical research is in many ways the least important and least difficult part.

This is what I don’t understand. Peak Avanti/LNER services are often fairly empty. I get that higher prices are needed at peak time to smooth demand, but surely the price setters have over compensated?

By this definition even the King of Britain isn't counted as British Clown show stuff from Matt Goodwin

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