Julian Reif
@julianreif.bsky.social
Associate Professor
Illinois Gies College of Business
Coeditor, American J. of Health Economics
www.julianreif.com
Illinois Gies College of Business
Coeditor, American J. of Health Economics
www.julianreif.com
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
Always a good reminder, I still see this error quite often:
"The difference between significant and not significant is not itself significant. If you want to carry out inference for a difference, you need to construct the standard error for that difference."
www.econometrics.blog/post/overlap...
"The difference between significant and not significant is not itself significant. If you want to carry out inference for a difference, you need to construct the standard error for that difference."
www.econometrics.blog/post/overlap...
Overlapping Confidence Intervals | econometrics.blog
Perhaps you’ve seen a claim like this in an applied paper: “the estimated effect for Group A is statistically significant, but the estimated effect for Group B is not; this treatment helps As but not ...
www.econometrics.blog
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Always a good reminder, I still see this error quite often:
"The difference between significant and not significant is not itself significant. If you want to carry out inference for a difference, you need to construct the standard error for that difference."
www.econometrics.blog/post/overlap...
"The difference between significant and not significant is not itself significant. If you want to carry out inference for a difference, you need to construct the standard error for that difference."
www.econometrics.blog/post/overlap...
Our team at American Journal of Health Economics is looking for a social media editor! The position is compensated ($1000 per year) -- if you're interested, please apply using this Google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you love health economics and learning about cool new research? Do you like telling other people about it? Come and be a social media editor at AJHE!! We're looking for someone to join our editorial team @ashecon.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Our team at American Journal of Health Economics is looking for a social media editor! The position is compensated ($1000 per year) -- if you're interested, please apply using this Google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#econtwitter #econsky: I'm again organizing sessions for Ashecon this upcoming June (in Minneapolis, in-person only) focused on IPV/VAW in low- and middle-income countries; for myself, particularly interested in a session around intersections between IPV and health outcomes
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#econtwitter #econsky: I'm again organizing sessions for Ashecon this upcoming June (in Minneapolis, in-person only) focused on IPV/VAW in low- and middle-income countries; for myself, particularly interested in a session around intersections between IPV and health outcomes
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Calling all researchers working on the environment and health! 🌿🚑
#ASHEcon2026 will be in Minneapolis (June 7–10, 2026), and I’m helping organize the Environment & Health program.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions (deadline is December 10)!
👉 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...
#ASHEcon2026 will be in Minneapolis (June 7–10, 2026), and I’m helping organize the Environment & Health program.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions (deadline is December 10)!
👉 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...
2026 Call for Abstracts – ASHEcon
www.ashecon.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Calling all researchers working on the environment and health! 🌿🚑
#ASHEcon2026 will be in Minneapolis (June 7–10, 2026), and I’m helping organize the Environment & Health program.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions (deadline is December 10)!
👉 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...
#ASHEcon2026 will be in Minneapolis (June 7–10, 2026), and I’m helping organize the Environment & Health program.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions (deadline is December 10)!
👉 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...
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My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist.
We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.
Tell your students to apply! #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.
Tell your students to apply! #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist.
We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.
Tell your students to apply! #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.
Tell your students to apply! #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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This is such a bizarre talking point; I've thankfully never had to use most of the types of insurance that I have for me and my family
This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is such a bizarre talking point; I've thankfully never had to use most of the types of insurance that I have for me and my family
This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!
Not sure anybody can top Ted, but if you want to check:
clearsky.app
clearsky.app
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Not sure anybody can top Ted, but if you want to check:
clearsky.app
clearsky.app
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Life expectancy has increased at all ages
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Life expectancy has increased at all ages
Good to see Bluesky implementing an algorithm—it’s much needed. Hopefully it works well
Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky
Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...
bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Good to see Bluesky implementing an algorithm—it’s much needed. Hopefully it works well
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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
“What makes a Harvard student a Harvard student is their engagement in extracurriculars”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘Soul-Crushing’: Students Slam Harvard’s Grade Inflation Report | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard students pushed back forcefully against a new University report condemning grade inflation, arguing that it misrepresented their academic experience and would add pressure to an already demand...
www.thecrimson.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“What makes a Harvard student a Harvard student is their engagement in extracurriculars”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
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NEW PRE-DOC POSITIONS: @arpitrage.bsky.social
and I are hiring for two pre-docs, one to start ASAP and one to start next Fall, to help expand our work using LLMs to measure and study zoning codes in the US.
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
and I are hiring for two pre-docs, one to start ASAP and one to start next Fall, to help expand our work using LLMs to measure and study zoning codes in the US.
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
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October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
NEW PRE-DOC POSITIONS: @arpitrage.bsky.social
and I are hiring for two pre-docs, one to start ASAP and one to start next Fall, to help expand our work using LLMs to measure and study zoning codes in the US.
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
and I are hiring for two pre-docs, one to start ASAP and one to start next Fall, to help expand our work using LLMs to measure and study zoning codes in the US.
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
Bad idea for economics: our author ordering is usually alphabetical
🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Bad idea for economics: our author ordering is usually alphabetical
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📢🚨 #HERB2026 is on 🚨📢
Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference
Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it.
Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜
Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference
Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it.
Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜
𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 (HERB 2026)
📍 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, January 22–23, 2026
🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 30, 2025
🔗 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 here: eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb
#healtheconomics @healtheconomics.bsky.social #econsky
📍 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, January 22–23, 2026
🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 30, 2025
🔗 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 here: eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb
#healtheconomics @healtheconomics.bsky.social #econsky
Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior (HERB)
Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior (HERB)
eventi.unibo.it
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
📢🚨 #HERB2026 is on 🚨📢
Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference
Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it.
Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜
Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference
Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it.
Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜
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Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
October 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
Wow
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
🧵 1/7
🧵 1/7
October 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Wow
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We're just now beginning to see the fallout of the administration's visa policies and rhetoric toward international students. Regardless of how bad it gets, it's 100% an own goal.
www.reuters.com/world/us/few...
www.reuters.com/world/us/few...
Fewer foreign students, fewer dollars: U.S. colleges feel the pinch
DePaul University has told faculty it will immediately reduce spending following a 30% decline in international enrollment this fall. The move is the latest by U.S. colleges to cope with the disruptive education and immigration policies of President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We're just now beginning to see the fallout of the administration's visa policies and rhetoric toward international students. Regardless of how bad it gets, it's 100% an own goal.
www.reuters.com/world/us/few...
www.reuters.com/world/us/few...
“In 2025, American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered a record 1,208 positions across all radiology specialties… In 2025, radiology was the second-highest-paid medical specialty in the country, with an average income of $520,000, over 48 percent higher than the average salary in 2015”
In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.
www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
www.understandingai.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“In 2025, American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered a record 1,208 positions across all radiology specialties… In 2025, radiology was the second-highest-paid medical specialty in the country, with an average income of $520,000, over 48 percent higher than the average salary in 2015”
I tried this on a manuscript—I’m impressed! It flagged:
- A missing variable in a first-order condition
- An outdated manual calc (“drop from X to Y is not Z%”)
- Inconsistent notation
- Miscellaneous typos (“and and”, “+ +”)
- Missing subscripts
- Several unclear passages
- A missing variable in a first-order condition
- An outdated manual calc (“drop from X to Y is not Z%”)
- Inconsistent notation
- Miscellaneous typos (“and and”, “+ +”)
- Missing subscripts
- Several unclear passages
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September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I tried this on a manuscript—I’m impressed! It flagged:
- A missing variable in a first-order condition
- An outdated manual calc (“drop from X to Y is not Z%”)
- Inconsistent notation
- Miscellaneous typos (“and and”, “+ +”)
- Missing subscripts
- Several unclear passages
- A missing variable in a first-order condition
- An outdated manual calc (“drop from X to Y is not Z%”)
- Inconsistent notation
- Miscellaneous typos (“and and”, “+ +”)
- Missing subscripts
- Several unclear passages
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Great opportunity. Great colleagues. (Note: Oct. 24 application deadline)
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Great opportunity. Great colleagues. (Note: Oct. 24 application deadline)
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....