Aaron Schwartz

A ?final thread about our new study measuring financial incentives to treat different racial/ethnic groups. Today’s topic: how this paper came about. I hope the details are helpful for early-career researchers. (1/n) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Not sure economists are fully prepared for what's coming in our field.

American healthcare is the best. Call urgent care: “Do you do stitches for kids?” Them: “Yes” Wait 3 hours with kid who needs stitches. Provider pokes head in door: “We don’t do that here. Go to the ER.” 2 mins tops. They bill at a rate equivalent to paying someone $6.2 million a year.

BU Questrom is hiring for a tenure-track position in the Business of Health. Details and more at practicingeconomist.com/bu-questrom-...

What it means to be an expert is going to change drastically. I have no idea what is waiting for us around the corner.

"No matter how we look at the data, AI wins. It wins in 100% of the pairs overall when judged by another AI model...and 87% overall when judged by human journal editors... [H]umans agreed as much or more with AI’s judgment than they did with other humans" gking.harvard.edu/files/peerle...

Date night shock Me to my wife: “do I look like Nathan Fielder? My wife: “you don’t NOT look like Nathan Fielder”

Sad to learn of the death of Jim Sabin. In residency, Jim facilitated our invaluable small group sessions on the challenges of doctoring. A phenomenal listener, accomplished psychiatrist/ethicist, he also, as the obit notes, had truly world-class eyebrows. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/b...

Friends: We have to stop running experiments where the outcome is a difference score. It is strictly worse in terms of statistical power. declaredesign.org/blog/posts/u... Control for the pre-treatment outcome instead! (example)

Don’t tell my nephew who isn’t on here, but bar mitzvah gift plans are coming together nicely.

🤩 it’s @annastansbury.bsky.social

The Federal minimum wage was effectively repealed over the last 17 years.

My #book on #stuckness now exists as a listed forthcoming, preorderable title! www.harpercollins.com/products/stu... Coming out end of June 2027. Working ToC attached. More details to follow! @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social

Read a little about David Blackwell and what a great quote

Here is my comment

Come join our department — two slots, looking for macro-labor, monetary, or international economists. Please share! econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

More physicians and higher physician quality, measured by licensing exam scores, reduce patient mortality in Chilean public hospitals, from Juan Pablo Atal, Tomás Larroucau, Pablo Muñoz, and Cristóbal Otero www.nber.org/papers/w35855

Denmark quasi-randomly assigned 12,000+ refugee children across towns. Those placed where social mobility is higher earned more as adults and had fewer convictions and teen births, from Daysal, Doyle Jr., Samandari, Simonsen, and Trandafir www.nber.org/papers/w35853

clawed frog embryo case update!!

U.S. health spending is on pace to cost almost $16,500 per person this year. And the biggest portion of an employer’s health spending — even for the largest corporations in the country — has remained the same since the 1980s: https://bit.ly/4edjsFi

A clear blue sky morning here in the keystone state.

Welch on the Grail multicancer screen www.statnews.com/2026/10/06/g...

Handy methods win Nobel. ✋

i'm actually going to take this goofy post somewhat seriously: much as going to the gym requires discipline, so too does going to the mental gym require discipline. and discipline is harder than it looks: it is about *your* ability to discipline *yourself*

The US is, or was, the world’s leading scientific power in economics. The Trump administration is inflicting extraordinary damage on what was once an infrastructure of excellence. The open question is how much of that damage will prove permanent.

1.5 year old has new habit. Whenever we put clothes on her, she declares “I cute!” Thinking of adopting this habit myself.

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Wow quite a story

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin is donating $2 billion to start a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami, part of the largest-ever individual gift toward higher education.

Several of my classmates in medical school were graduates of military academies like West Point, where they took classes in organic chemistry just like the rest of us. Does it really help the military to hobble these schools’ ability to recruit top orgo professors?

Impressive figures here

It's starting www.nber.org/system/files...

Where is Wipeout? Find me a better tv show about people falling down. You can’t.

Gift link, and some reactions herein. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

Happy 100th to John Coltrane. If you want to merge your consciousness with the universe, put on A Love Supreme. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3C...

My kid’s elementary school teaches all the kids to ride a bike and ride safely on roads and it is just the best.