@okuchap @UWBusiness @UWMadison We’re super excited to have you, and I have no doubt you will produce many interesting and valuable things!
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Stuart Craig
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Stuart Craig
@stuartcraig
Assistant Professor @UWBusiness, studying competition, vertical contracting, and price setting in health care markets
Madison, WI Katılım Haziran 2014
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small update: I'll be joining @UWBusiness @UWMadison as an assistant professor of risk and insurance this Fall, graduating a year earlier than originally planned. I'm grateful for this opportunity and will do my best to produce something valuable :)
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@jt_kerwin These are very nice! I even go as far as to take the outline off the top. As an audience member, I have only ever used that as a source of anxiety about the presenter's time management!
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Your slides should avoid having tons of extra junk on them, but the default Beamer themes make that hard. So I made my own .sty file that fixes all the standard issues and put it on my website for everyone to use:
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I import way more data into Stata than I export and I’m sick getting ripped off.
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The problem was that the “conversation” was mostly about how much people hated paper straws.
This high salience, low impact policy is the exact opposite of what we should have done.
Instead replace grid generation with renewables. Nobody inconvenienced and huge impact.
Betsey Stevenson@BetseyStevenson
Plastic straws were picked because their consumption is visible (used most often in public) and so by targeting plastic straws, those concerned about plastic use could more effectively use peer pressure to both dissuade plastic use & start conversations about plastic.
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Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums.
The result? ⬇️ employment ⬇️ wages ⬇️ tax revenue ⬆️ overdoses
ow.ly/YlsE50SKtbe
@HarrisPolicy's @zarekcb, @zackcooperYale, @stuartcraig, @LevKlarnet, Ithai Lurie, & Corbin Miller.
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@Jabaluck There is an updated version on Steam called "Two Point Hospital" that is functionally the same, with some added content (including the ability to adjust prices!)
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@stuartcraig Until I saw the link I thought your post was a joke, like "of course, there is no video game for health economists." But, apparently there was.
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This is also reminding me ~7th-grade me used to play a Sims/Theme Park style game called "Theme Hospital" in which you build/manage a system of hospitals in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Hos…
Carbon@CogniCarbon
The first videogame you ever play can alter your path in life. Really interesting read.
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if i had the result that kids playing Super Mario Bros led to them becoming plumbers i'd submit it too causality be damned
Carbon@CogniCarbon
The first videogame you ever play can alter your path in life. Really interesting read.
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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My new paper - Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector? - with @zarekcb @stuartcraig & @LevKlarnet was just published in AER: Impact (@AEAjournals). A Thread
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the U.S. Hospital Sector?" by Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
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.@NYHPA #AnnualConference #CoveringNY: Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices – examining the impact of rising health care prices and challenges of making health coverage affordable, with @Stuartcraig of @UWBusiness and @cdphp president Brian O’Grady
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To be clear, I did not submit. Madison is just full of bright minds.
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@toniwhited First best is don’t use Matlab.
If you must use Matlab repmat and kron are red flags, those should almost always be bsxfun.
mathworks.com/help/matlab/re…
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I hate Matlab. You take a gawdawful mess that uses repeat, permutedims, kron, ones, zeros, and who knows what else, and you ask an AI to translate it to Julia and you get a pretty little loop with broadcasting that is actually faster than this impossible to read vectorization.
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@vini_singh_ that they do it best, but I'm being cheeky because my sense is that you meant "best" from the perspective of consumer benefit
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Come work with me, @zarekcb, and @GottliebEcon on health economics research at UChicago as a @BeckerFriedman Research Professional!
Deadline is rolling, but we plan to start reviewing applications later this month.
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The human mind wasn’t built for thinking about Pennsylvania every four years
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Join my fantastic department - we're hiring in health economics & health policy! This is a tenure track assistant prof job. If you are going on the market with a PhD in economics, health policy, public health, or a related field, it's likely a great fit.
🔗aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…
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@Jabaluck Also, it seems worthwhile to ask how we know if high prices provide an *efficient* level of innovation/quality. I'm aware of good papers showing that there *is* a gradient. But under cost sharing it's less obvious whether we're over/under-shooting those dynamic incentives
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There is a tension between conventional public economics and the way that most people think about health policy: absent some other distortion, prices only matter for efficiency insofar as they impact quantities, and this impact is considerably muted by health insurance.
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