Jason Fletcher
@jasonmfletcher
Professor of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin. Health Economics, Social Genomics, Networks. Views my own.
Time to update our timeline of projects at americanmortalityproject.lafollette.wisc.edu Work on county health departments with @hamidnb.bsky.social Free access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interesting stylized fact--the median US household gives < 2% of income to charity. I would have guessed closer to 10%. from: www.census.gov/content/dam/... But ChatGPT confirms: chatgpt.com/s/t_6a3af0e8...
We got this "Comment" Published in mid May. But its really hard to find/see
Ongoing work with @hamidnb.bsky.social on NAFTA and mortality nber.org/papers/w34840
TFW you think--it seems unlikely researchers could find effects of a state policy on a rare outcome--and then look at the figure and recall the work of @jondr44.bsky.social
Very interesting Econ 101 -relevant example of estimating elasticities and (huge) externalities, this time from BitCoin mining. and really like the short communication format at JPubE @jpube.bsky.social by @annapappp.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
That’s above our kitchen table. 😀. My mom grew up on Lake George