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Adam Sacarny
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Associate Professor @columbiahpm.bsky.social visiting this fall @beckerfriedman.bsky.social. Also @nber.org & @j-pal.bsky.social. Economics & health policy. #econsky #healthpolicy #medsky πŸ“ˆπŸšžπŸˆπŸ—½πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 7d
HP OfficeJet 3550 regrets to inform you that your document was not selected for printing. Unfortunately, the number of jobs submitted far exceeded the paper in the paper tray.

If you would like to print, we encourage you to submit another job in the future.

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, John A. Graves, Adam Sacarny

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social Β· 13d
@allanmjoseph.bsky.social has been telling me there needs to be a "Dartmouth Atlas, but for pediatrics" for maybe a literal decade? And now there is!

(h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)
Development of an Atlas for US Pediatric Acute Care
This cross-sectional study offers a national US atlas of pediatric acute care centers in the US.
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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 18d
I believe it’s used all the time in epi / public health for binary outcomes! Coefficients have a nice interpretation as relative risk ratios. And often used for estimating vaccine effectiveness, like in the RCT of the Novavax vaccine for Covid: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Safety and Efficacy of NVX-CoV2373 Covid-19 Vaccine | NEJM
Early clinical data from studies of the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine (Novavax), a recombinant nanoparticle vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that contains the full...
www.nejm.org

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 21d
This rules!! Just FYI there is a minor typo on the Scheduling page ("Both Intercity and Commuter trains are scheudled every 15 minutes at consistent and predictable intervals.")

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 26d
Just don't run predictive margins!! They are not the same!

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 26d
Toying around with this yesterday in Stata, clogit, xtpoisson, and ppmlhdfe were pretty similar in speed. But I just had one level of fixed effects (the group id). I would bet if you have additional fixed effects in the regression ppmlhdfe is far superior.

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 26d
See journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 26d
Fun fact: you can estimate a conditional logit by running a fixed effects Poisson. They yield the same estimates and standard errors - they maximize the same likelihood. Poisson regression forever!

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· 27d
@instrumenthull.bsky.social where are we on this?

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 11
lol he is???

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 11
Also hopefully not a β€œDoctor Mike Reacts to Confused Health Economist” video situation

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 11
Not everyone in the US knows each other Rafe!!

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 11
Only in the sense that the algorithm is pushing me his entire repertoire

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 11
As someone on the Pitt to ER pipeline I strongly recommend this (now burning through ER season 8)

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 11
Doctor Mike!!! Let this be your introduction to the broader Dr Mike commentary universe

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Oct 9
Very excited this is coming out soon!
cc @ambarlaforgia.bsky.social

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social Β· Oct 9
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare" by Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare
(Forthcoming Article) - Firms often exploit weaknesses in government contracts to boost revenues, yet little is known about how they allocate these funds. We study how hospitals allocated $3 billion o...
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Β· Oct 4
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Β· Sep 20
The 2025 academic econ job market is trending better than the first COVID market year but worse than the rest of 2019-present

www.davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Sep 12
I think at Mailman at least there is an opportunity to request an extension, it isn't automatic. Just based on an email I saw from earlier this year. I'm not sure how hard it is to actually get the extension

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Sep 11
The bus I've been taking this week makes local stops then runs on the highway. Like the bus in the movie Speed. It's all I can think about on my way in.
Screenshot from the movie Speed of the bus making a high-speed turn surrounded by police vehicles

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Sep 10
Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: we find that inpatient psychiatric bed supply increasingly comes from freestanding psychiatric hospitals in large for-profit chains.
Authors: Karen Shen @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Mark Olfson @columbiapsych.bsky.social + me
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
National Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Bed Supply, 2011 to 2023
This cross-sectional study discusses trends in inpatient psychiatric bed supplies.
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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Sep 5
Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the Broad Street pump! Sadly, I saw that the pump handle had been removed. I worked to reinstall the pump handle so local residents would not be deprived of this vital resource. So glad to bring some of the latest American public health ingenuity to London!
Selfie of me smiling in front of the Broad Street pump

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social Β· Aug 2
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal
August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Jul 31
Congrats Arrianna!!!

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social Β· Jul 24
News reports say Columbia paid a "fine" of $200 million, which is grossly excessive, given the lack of any government authority to impose such a fine. On the blog, I parse the agreement and the stakes to explain what the dollar figure really reflects and its ominous implications. πŸ‘‡
How Bad is the Columbia Settlement Agreement?
Reporting (e.g.,Β  in the NY Times ) on the settlement agreement between Columbia University and the United States government describes the $...
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Β· Jul 24
Characteristically clear-eyed thinking on the dangers of "regulation by deal" from my colleague David Pozen. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Jul 14
Yes!!!!!

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Jul 7
Great rejoinder to a WSJ letter that (IMO quite incorrectly) interpreted the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment as showing that Medicaid doesn't improve health.

www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/o...
Defenders of Medicaid cuts are misunderstanding a study I worked on
Defenders of Medicaid cuts point to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment to argue that the cuts won’t harm people’s health. But they misunderstand the results, writes one of the study’s authors.
www.statnews.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social Β· Jun 30
If you end up using it please let me know how it goes! It seems like the RxNorm data is good for this application but would love confirmation...