Nathan Franz
@nathanfranz.bsky.social
Econ job market candidate at UT-Austin, working on maternal and child health in India
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A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
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The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
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I am delighted to share that my job market paper was featured in the World Bank's Development Impact blog today: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Summary below. 👇
Summary below. 👇
Fostering Trust to Save Lives: Evidence from Organ Donation in Tunisia: Guest post by Christina Sarah Hauser
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November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I am delighted to share that my job market paper was featured in the World Bank's Development Impact blog today: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Summary below. 👇
Summary below. 👇
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I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
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I'm on the #EconJobMarket!🥳 My research examines how childhood trauma from violence shapes household violence in adulthood. My #EconJMP asks: How do trauma histories interact with their partners' experiences to shape intimate partner violence and violence against children? 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I'm on the #EconJobMarket!🥳 My research examines how childhood trauma from violence shapes household violence in adulthood. My #EconJMP asks: How do trauma histories interact with their partners' experiences to shape intimate partner violence and violence against children? 🧵
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Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year
Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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Excited that Open Phil is funding this @metaculus.bsky.social forecasting tournament on the future budgets and spending of NIH and NSF, and surprised that forecasters are expecting basically no cuts
www.metaculus.com/tournament/...
www.metaculus.com/tournament/...
August 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Excited that Open Phil is funding this @metaculus.bsky.social forecasting tournament on the future budgets and spending of NIH and NSF, and surprised that forecasters are expecting basically no cuts
www.metaculus.com/tournament/...
www.metaculus.com/tournament/...
Applying to NEUDC
Feels like they're trying to tell me something
Feels like they're trying to tell me something
August 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Applying to NEUDC
Feels like they're trying to tell me something
Feels like they're trying to tell me something
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Nathan Franz, PhD student at UT Austin - he’ll be on the market this fall!
Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes
Website: nathan-franz.github.io
Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes
Website: nathan-franz.github.io
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Nathan Franz, PhD student at UT Austin - he’ll be on the market this fall!
Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes
Website: nathan-franz.github.io
Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes
Website: nathan-franz.github.io
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🚨New Paper🚨
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics
Policies subject to BCA sometimes prevent premature deaths. If survivors would later have children, those policies not only prevent deaths; they cause…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨New Paper🚨
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PEPFAR, the U.S. global health program that has saved over 26 million lives from HIV, is in limbo. Without reauthorization, its future is uncertain. What does it look like to be a child who lives this uncertainty?
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April 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
PEPFAR, the U.S. global health program that has saved over 26 million lives from HIV, is in limbo. Without reauthorization, its future is uncertain. What does it look like to be a child who lives this uncertainty?
whatweare.substack.com/p/before-you...
whatweare.substack.com/p/before-you...
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After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso will be published on 8 July.
www.amazon.com/After-Spike-...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso will be published on 8 July.
www.amazon.com/After-Spike-...
www.amazon.com/After-Spike-...
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By the way, for anyone wondering why we have imports on the books from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the answer is that someone logged imports from Honduras incorrectly.
The databases really do claim that we imported "INSULATED COAXIAL CABLE AND OTHER COAXIAL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS" from HM/HMD. That doesn't make sense, but do you know what one of the top exports of HN/HND is? Insulated wire. I'd love to know the *mechanics* of the error but the result is obvious.
April 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
By the way, for anyone wondering why we have imports on the books from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the answer is that someone logged imports from Honduras incorrectly.
Even if you think that having an overall trade deficit is bad, trying to zero out trade deficits with each country individually doesn't make sense.
A quick example:
A quick example:
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Even if you think that having an overall trade deficit is bad, trying to zero out trade deficits with each country individually doesn't make sense.
A quick example:
A quick example:
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Pakistan: 29% Sri Lanka 44% Bangladesh 37% China 34% Vietnam 46% India 26% Thailand 36% Indonesia 32% Cambodia 49% South Africa 30%
April 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pakistan: 29% Sri Lanka 44% Bangladesh 37% China 34% Vietnam 46% India 26% Thailand 36% Indonesia 32% Cambodia 49% South Africa 30%
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*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
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A timely, important, and wonderfully written piece on the Demographic and Health Surveys by Caren Grown. So much learning stands on the shoulders of the DHS. Donors must step up and step in— and soon— especially to rescue the 18 surveys currently in the field.
www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program
Caren Grown reflects on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and its 40-plus years of impact.
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March 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A timely, important, and wonderfully written piece on the Demographic and Health Surveys by Caren Grown. So much learning stands on the shoulders of the DHS. Donors must step up and step in— and soon— especially to rescue the 18 surveys currently in the field.
www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
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BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals.
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
March 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals.
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
March 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
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Haven't tried it yet but www.aid-archive.org
Aid Archive
Preserving information and resources for development and humanitarian aid
www.aid-archive.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Haven't tried it yet but www.aid-archive.org
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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...