martingaynor.bsky.social
Economist at Carnegie Mellon focusing on organizations and incentives, markets, competition, and antitrust, and health care. Formerly at the Antitrust Division, DOJ and at the FTC. Daf Yomi learner. Antitrust, Economics, Talmud puns.
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Hope it’s mild and short Melissa!
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To be clear, I’m not saying there aren’t problems with antisemitism at Harvard (there are), simply that’s not what the Trump administration’s actions are about.
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Erin Duffy at USC has done some work on this issue. schaeffer.usc.edu/research/all... I don’t know of anything else.
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Thanks. Yes - I’ve heard lots of anecdotes (it seems like everyone has at least one medical billing story when you bring it up), but little to no hard evidence.
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Is there much research on patient problems with medical bills (not debt; problems with billing)?
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Great idea! I’ll also tell about how I worked separating real and imaginary numbers for hours a day (dirty, dangerous, exhausting work) so I could afford the tuition to study.
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Thank you!
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Thanks Stacie!
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Thanks so much Steve - I appreciate it!
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Thanks so much Matt. I’m grateful for having been given the opportunity to work with you and all of my wonderful students.
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Thanks Matt! Having wonderful students like you has made this a real joy.
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Thanks Aaron!
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😆 Everyone knows about that, so no need to repeat it, although some may not know that I didn’t know any math when my wife married me (in spite of her father’s objections to her marrying someone who couldn’t prove a fixed point theorem).
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Thanks Lauren!
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!! You’re on! :)
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@causalinf.bsky.social has done a lot of fascinating interviews with a wide variety of economists - very cool - terrific stuff. Check out the interviews here causalinf.substack.com/podcast
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Thank you!
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Thanks R’ Goodman!
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Thanks Shooshan!
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Thanks David!
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Family, friends, community, how we treat others - those relationships are more meaningful & have much longer lasting impacts than what we do professionally. Scott Cunningham & I cover these topics (& a lot more) in an interview we did for his excellent podcast lnkd.in/eqfZUgbA.
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If I'd gotten a job offer from them I might still be there & be very happy about it. 3rd, the most important achievements any of us will have are our relationships with other people.
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When I was finishing grad school & going on the job market what I really wanted was a job at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica. They had folks doing awesome research & people played volleyball on the beach at lunch (I think the latter may have been most of the source of my interest).
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I've greatly enjoyed academia, but I could have been very happy & fulfilled working in government or for a research or consulting firm. I've worked in those settings & there are really smart, dedicated people doing important work there that makes a difference in real time (unlike most of academia).
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The point is that not everyone is successful right away & some people get off to a slow start, but that doesn't determine eventual professional achievement. 2nd, there are a lot of ways to have a successful professional career.
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After 5 years I was out of academia, with only 1 publication in a minor scientific journal. It took me a long time to mature as a researcher & to figure things out professionally. I got some lucky breaks & was fortunate to connect with smart, supportive people & things eventually came together.
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That's true of some, but many have traveled a far more circuitous route - that's certainly true of me. I left grad school in 1981 with my dissertation unfinished, and held 5 jobs in the next 7 years, including getting fired from one for not having my dissertation done.
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“Tariffs are tax cuts.”
“Correlation is causation.”
“Upper hemi-continuity is the same as continuity.”
Where will it end!!
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😆
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Thanks Dave!
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Both have smart, hardworking & dedicated public servants who help HHS work better internally and externally. They’re also both relatively small, so I doubt there would be substantial savings from combining them.