Simon Reif

Simon Reif

@simonreif.social

👨‍💻 zew - centre for european economic research mannheim (health care markets and health policy group). 🧑‍🏫 FAU professor for economics (health care markets) 🏡 nürnberg. schlauraffen land. sometimes punkrock 💻 http://simonreif.eu

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Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

🥁Fans of @quarto.org: We have updated our template package at github.com/simonreif/ze.... It now has a cleaner structure, no LaTeX is needed in the qmd documents and we did a lot of bug fixes. For the cool kids, there is now also an AGENTS MD file that helps your AGENT to agent. 🤖🦶

github.comGitHub - simonreif/zewwwwEcon: Quarto Templates for Applied Economic Research ProjectsQuarto Templates for Applied Economic Research Projects - simonreif/zewwwwEcon
Simon Reif@simonreif.social

🦶We made a thing! An unbranded version of the @quarto.org templates we use for our empirical research projects (Slides, Papers, Project setup) in R or Python is available here: github.com/simonreif/ze... 🥂It's called zewwwwEcon since it is the version for the www of our internal zewEcon package 🤷‍♂️

github.comGitHub - simonreif/zewwwwEcon: Quarto Templates for Applied Economic Research ProjectsQuarto Templates for Applied Economic Research Projects - simonreif/zewwwwEcon
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

I used to teach rent control as an example in my intro to econ class...I wish I had such a detailed overview back then...

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Atheendar Venkataramani
@atheendar.bsky.social

AI turbocharging something we were already doing!

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com

"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they should probably stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap."

medpagetoday.comIs AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

Trying to somehow relate this to academia 🫣

dax@thdxr.com

the last 20% to get a product shipped and successful is as difficult as ever this is where 99% of programmers have always fallen off the first 80% is a lot easier and so we're seeing more abandoned projects than ever

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AT Protocol Developers
@atproto.com

The most significant extension to the protocol since launch—atproto spaces—is now officially alpha software you can start testing with. Here's more about the goals and how to start testing. atproto.com/blog/atproto...

atproto.comThe Atproto Spaces Alpha is LiveAtproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.

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Nick Huntington-Klein
@nickchk.com

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

Zur Diskussion um die Anzahl an Krankenkassen: Weder im internationalen Vergleich noch im deutschen Quer- und Längsschnitt lässt sich ein klarer negativer Zusammenhang zwischen Kassengröße und Verwaltungskosten je Versicherten zeigen. Heute online beim ifo Schnelldienst ✌️ www.ifo.de/publikatione...

ifo.deWeniger Krankenkassen, geringere Kosten? Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme | ifo InstitutDie Debatte um eine Reduktion gesetzlicher Krankenkassen wird häufig mit möglichen Einsparungen bei Verwaltungskosten begründet. Der Beitrag untersucht diese Annahme empirisch und ordnet sie ökonomisc...
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

Reading scientific papers is like...solve two CAPTCHAS s.t. Cloudflare has made sure that you are really a human, see that article is behind paywall, 2FA in the university network, Cloudflare again, nope, still no access... But good that the bots from SciHub are better than me...

Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

Die Siffigkeit der Stadt und die Siffigkeit des Bahnhofs sind fast perfekt negativ korreliert wenn man nur Berlin und Heidelberg als Stichprobe nimmt!

Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

Ach herjeh... aber wenn @monika-schnitzer.com auch dabei ist wird schon passen...

Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik@pluraleoek.bsky.social

Wir präsentieren 🥁 - Mainstream-Ökonom*innen im Dienst der Kettensägen-Politik: www.insm.de/aktuelles/ka...

insm.deÖkonomen sehen Reformbedarf - INSMMit Blick auf den Reformstillstand: Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen forderte in den letzten Wochen öffentlich einen großen Wurf in der deutschen Reformpolitik. Unabhängig voneinander riefen die…
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

The amount of tokens I spent on this template is ridiculous, but if you ever wanted to have an academic PDF CV, rendered from Quarto via typst that uses multiple .bib files for different publication categories... check this out: github.com/simonreif/ac...

github.comGitHub - simonreif/academic-cv-quarto: A modern, flexible CV template using Quarto and Typst. Features customizable colors, social media links and multiple literature lists from .bib files.A modern, flexible CV template using Quarto and Typst. Features customizable colors, social media links and multiple literature lists from .bib files. - simonreif/academic-cv-quarto
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

I'll be chairing this, tune in ✌️

healtheconall@healtheconall.bsky.social

Next EuHEA Online Seminar - April 14: "Pay-For-Delay": Preventing competition in Pharmaceutical Markets #healtheconomics

dlvr.itNext EuHEA Online Seminar - April 14: "Pay-For-Delay": Preventing competition in Pharmaceutical MarketsFrom: EuHEA Subject: [External] Next EuHEA Online Seminar - April 14: "Pay-For-Delay": Preventing competition in Pharmaceutical Markets Next EuHEA Online Seminar - April 14: "Pay-For-Delay": Preventing competition in Pharmaceutical Markets The next seminar in the EuHEA Online Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday 14 April 2026, 1:30-2:30pm (CEST) "Pay-For-Delay": Preventing competition in Pharmaceutical Markets Speaker: Alejandro Medina, University of Verona Discussant: Paolo Li Donni, University of Palermo Chair: Simon Reif, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research & University of Erlangen-Nurnberg Abstract: [...]

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Hannes Ullrich
@hannesullrich.com

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: submit your digital health economics papers and abstracts by April 6! More info here: www.digitalhealthecon.org

Hannes Ullrich@hannesullrich.com

Call for Papers! The 3rd Workshop Applied Economics in Digital Health will take place at HPI, Potsdam, 2-3 July 2026. Submission deadline on March 30. Exciting keynote, diverse academic program and policy discussions! Further info: www.digitalhealthecon.org @arieldora.bsky.social @simonreif.eu

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Anne Sophie Lassen
@ansolassen.bsky.social

Really very happy to see our paper covered in Nature Magazine Full paper here cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

Nature@nature.com

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark. go.nature.com/4tcO2Em

go.nature.comMotherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and whyMothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

"We economists are just better with empirical methods, that's why we can contribute to a lot of research areas" ...says the first year PhD student who has just vibe coded his master thesis on the causal effect of smoking on lung cancer.

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Zeta Of 1
@zetaof1.bsky.social

It's quite funny actually when you realize that just this weekend alone a substantial amount of anthropic tokens will be burnt by an armada of tech bros convinced that talking to an AI echochamber will make them find a solution to the Strait of Hormuz situation in 48h.

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Paul Hünermund
@p-hunermund.com

Whenever science journalists say "Holy crap" there is a 99% chance of the paper not be replicable.

Tamar Haspel@tamarhaspel.bsky.social

Holy crap. Subjects who got chemo in the morning reduced risk of disease progressing by a whopping 60%. Super simple intervention, huge result. I hope the finding holds up.

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ZEW Mannheim
@zew.de

Wie krank ist unser #Gesundheitssystem? Einige Zusatzbeiträge wurden Anfang 2026 erneut erhöht. Was das bedeutet, bespricht #ZEW -Ökonom @simonreif.eu im ausführlichen Gespräch bei #SWR1 Leute. www.swr.de/swr1/leute/g...

swr.deFinanznot der Krankenkassen: Wie krank ist unser Gesundheitssystem?Erneut höhere Zusatzbeiträge bei den Krankenkassen und ein kränkelndes Gesundheitssytem: Prof. Dr. Simon Reif forscht daran, wie es wieder fit gemacht werden kann.
Simon Reif
@simonreif.social

I took three trains to get to the HESG in York and then three trains + one plane to get back home. Everything was on time 😳 I fear all my karma for this year was used up 😩