Maddalena Grignani
@maddagrignani.bsky.social
She/her. PhD student @UPFBarcelona - interested in health economics and institutional trust. Aspiring DJ.
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When disadvantaged individuals receive basic income, they take time off work, address health needs, and, subsequently, reintegrate into employment, from Jorge Luis García, Patrick L. Warren, and L. Reed Watson https://www.nber.org/papers/w33891
June 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When disadvantaged individuals receive basic income, they take time off work, address health needs, and, subsequently, reintegrate into employment, from Jorge Luis García, Patrick L. Warren, and L. Reed Watson https://www.nber.org/papers/w33891
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NEW: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
NEW: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
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We have travel grants (up to 500USD) for PhD students and postdoc fellows to attend the San Francisco Replication Games on June 19th. Econ, pol sci and related fields. You can register to the event here:
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Email I4R to request a travel grant.
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Email I4R to request a travel grant.
May 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We have travel grants (up to 500USD) for PhD students and postdoc fellows to attend the San Francisco Replication Games on June 19th. Econ, pol sci and related fields. You can register to the event here:
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Email I4R to request a travel grant.
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Email I4R to request a travel grant.
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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
www.propublica.org
April 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
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NEW: Nike says most of the 1.1M people making its products earn 1.9X their local minimum wage. We obtained a payroll ledger for a Cambodian factory that supplied Nike for two years.
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.
Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one ...
www.propublica.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NEW: Nike says most of the 1.1M people making its products earn 1.9X their local minimum wage. We obtained a payroll ledger for a Cambodian factory that supplied Nike for two years.
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime" by Steffen Andersen, Elin Colmsjö, Gianpaolo Parise, and Kim Peijnenburg. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime
(Forthcoming Article) - Exploiting plausibly exogenous variations in the timing of cancer
diagnoses, we establish that health shocks elicit a large and persistent
increase in the probability of commit...
www.aeaweb.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime" by Steffen Andersen, Elin Colmsjö, Gianpaolo Parise, and Kim Peijnenburg. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen
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April 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....