Igor Francetic
@igorfrancetic.fyi
{Applied ∪ Health}⊂Econ | Research Fellow at @hope-uom.bsky.social | SNSF Ambizione Fellow at SUPSI | A mind-wandering seabound soul who played #waterpolo
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Igor Francetic
@igorfrancetic.fyi
· Jul 3
The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes
The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…
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📣 New paper alert 📣
Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.
Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.
Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).
September 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).
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🎉Today is the first day of the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (CHEW). 🎉
To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".
To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".
September 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎉Today is the first day of the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (CHEW). 🎉
To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".
To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".
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New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications
Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
September 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications
Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
What happened at Beckham's birthday party!? 🎉 🕺
YouTube video by The Overlap
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August 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
![Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.
dbreg(
tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#>
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> fare_amount 0.106744 0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086 0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qww63z2t5rrhniusz5x7gk23/bafkreiajmnp6jiaycebutwid2lxx57hrz3zc3qp2p5ijnoqiyqag34xpe4@jpeg)
August 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
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It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.
Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.
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Quick @Stata tip: use the "coeflegend" option in a regression to display the name Stata uses for each coefficient.
reg price mpg i.foreign##i.rep78, coeflegend
reg price mpg i.foreign##i.rep78, coeflegend
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Quick @Stata tip: use the "coeflegend" option in a regression to display the name Stata uses for each coefficient.
reg price mpg i.foreign##i.rep78, coeflegend
reg price mpg i.foreign##i.rep78, coeflegend
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Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂
July 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂
Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social.
@manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social
@manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social.
@manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social
@manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social
📣 New paper alert 📣
Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.
Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.
Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes
The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
📣 New paper alert 📣
Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.
Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.
Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
One week left!
📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)!
The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
May 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
One week left!
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📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)!
The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)!
The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
📣Just over a week to submit for the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop in Split, 8th-9th September 2025.📣
The Croatian Health Economics Association is happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in #Split on 8th-9th September 2025.
Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
May 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
📣Just over a week to submit for the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop in Split, 8th-9th September 2025.📣
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Logging into ORCID so I can log into Web of Science so I can log into Manuscript Central so I can submit a referee report for free
March 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Logging into ORCID so I can log into Web of Science so I can log into Manuscript Central so I can submit a referee report for free
The Croatian Health Economics Association is happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in #Split on 8th-9th September 2025.
Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Croatian Health Economics Association is happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in #Split on 8th-9th September 2025.
Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
📣To all economists with an interest adjacent to health📣
We're happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Call for abstracts will be released at the beginning of March 2025. SAVE THE DATE in your calendar if interested!
We're happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Call for abstracts will be released at the beginning of March 2025. SAVE THE DATE in your calendar if interested!
January 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
📣To all economists with an interest adjacent to health📣
We're happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Call for abstracts will be released at the beginning of March 2025. SAVE THE DATE in your calendar if interested!
We're happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Call for abstracts will be released at the beginning of March 2025. SAVE THE DATE in your calendar if interested!
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Our new study shows that the #covid vaccination reduced inequalities in mortality bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
January 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our new study shows that the #covid vaccination reduced inequalities in mortality bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
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January 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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📣 CfP: Workshop on 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲
📍 𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟰 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲, Italy.
Keynotes: Jonathan Kolstad (Berkeley) & Carol Propper (Imperial Coll.)
Organizers: @jkwinter.bsky.social (LMU) & @arieldora.bsky.social (HPI, Uni Potsdam)
Submit until 𝟵 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 👇
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Venice Summer Institute 2025: Digital Healthcare
Organizers: Joachim Winter and Ariel SternThe digital transformation of health care has included the roll-out and adoption of new tools and approaches, including electronic health records, telemedicin...
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January 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📣 CfP: Workshop on 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲
📍 𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟰 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲, Italy.
Keynotes: Jonathan Kolstad (Berkeley) & Carol Propper (Imperial Coll.)
Organizers: @jkwinter.bsky.social (LMU) & @arieldora.bsky.social (HPI, Uni Potsdam)
Submit until 𝟵 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 👇
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
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I’m working on updates the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals connected to January 6th.
I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼
I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼
January 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m working on updates the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals connected to January 6th.
I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼
I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼
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New tools for dynamic-treatment effect estimation with instrumental variables show the effects of revascularization on quality of life are larger and more persistent than conventional analyses suggest, from Angrist, Ferman, Gao, Hull, Tecchio, Yeh https://www.nber.org/papers/w33296
December 28, 2024 at 6:30 PM
New tools for dynamic-treatment effect estimation with instrumental variables show the effects of revascularization on quality of life are larger and more persistent than conventional analyses suggest, from Angrist, Ferman, Gao, Hull, Tecchio, Yeh https://www.nber.org/papers/w33296