Sam Burn
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Absolutely flabbergasting #EconSky
And just like that, the demographic health survey (DHS) data are gone. #polisci #conflictsky
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Absolutely flabbergasting #EconSky
Almost 40% cuts to UK foreign aid. It’s hard to express how sad and disappointed I am by this. We should be stepping up to help cover the USAID shortfall, not doing the same thing
Starmer planning big cuts to UK aid budget to boost defence spending, say sources
Starmer planning big cuts to UK aid budget to boost defence spending, say sources
Exclusive: PM expected to confirm boost in military spending to at least 2.5% of GDP by 2030
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Keir Starmer is planning drastic cuts to Britain’s international aid budget to help pay for a boost to defence spending,…
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February 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Almost 40% cuts to UK foreign aid. It’s hard to express how sad and disappointed I am by this. We should be stepping up to help cover the USAID shortfall, not doing the same thing
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Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives.
www.nber.org/papers/w33357
www.nber.org/papers/w33357
The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives.
www.nber.org/papers/w33357
www.nber.org/papers/w33357
Please give me examples of great papers using the IPUMS-DHS data to inspire my MSc students! (Also any tips for working with these data as an instructor…)
December 19, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Please give me examples of great papers using the IPUMS-DHS data to inspire my MSc students! (Also any tips for working with these data as an instructor…)
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Production of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy continues to power the Danish economy—since late 2021, Danish GDP growth has been 3.6%, but it would have been 0% without the contribution of rapid pharmaceutical manufacturing growth
November 26, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Production of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy continues to power the Danish economy—since late 2021, Danish GDP growth has been 3.6%, but it would have been 0% without the contribution of rapid pharmaceutical manufacturing growth
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I was asked to write on a topic that Tom McGuire is a world expert in. Tom is retired. Wasn’t on my dissertation committee. Never coauthored with him. He was traveling across the world when I emailed him. “Comments on this draft pls? Due in 48 hrs”. Detailed, incisive comments came back next day.
November 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
I was asked to write on a topic that Tom McGuire is a world expert in. Tom is retired. Wasn’t on my dissertation committee. Never coauthored with him. He was traveling across the world when I emailed him. “Comments on this draft pls? Due in 48 hrs”. Detailed, incisive comments came back next day.
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I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.
Israel strikes Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp | CNN
An Israeli strike on the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza caused many casualties, officials in the enclave said Tuesday.
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October 31, 2023 at 7:51 PM
I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.
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The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.
U.N. human rights lawyer resigns, criticizes the agency and calls the Israeli strikes in Gaza ‘gen...
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October 31, 2023 at 6:21 PM
The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.
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A stat I will tell anyone who will listen: the number of people who are uninsured but *eligible for Medicaid* (7.4M in 2021) is more than three times as large as the number of people in the failure-to-expand Medicaid gap (1.9M in 2021)
That's administrative burdens, not lack of affordability
That's administrative burdens, not lack of affordability
We have hotly debated for decades how to increase health coverage, control costs, and improve quality.
As Drew Altman and I write, maybe it’s also time to address the frustrating complexity of our health insurance system.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
As Drew Altman and I write, maybe it’s also time to address the frustrating complexity of our health insurance system.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Complexity in the US Health Care System Is the Enemy of Access and Affordability
Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.
jamanetwork.com
October 27, 2023 at 2:06 PM
A stat I will tell anyone who will listen: the number of people who are uninsured but *eligible for Medicaid* (7.4M in 2021) is more than three times as large as the number of people in the failure-to-expand Medicaid gap (1.9M in 2021)
That's administrative burdens, not lack of affordability
That's administrative burdens, not lack of affordability
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October 25, 2023 at 8:13 AM
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By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada.
“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.
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“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.
Read more:
‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire
Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal?
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2023 at 5:40 PM
By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada.
“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.
Read more:
“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.
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