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William Garcia
@wrgarciag.bsky.social
Health Economist. PhDing UW Seattle
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1/ 📢 New paper alert! 📄 Together with Vitalii Tubdenov, we propose a measure of the "Average Period of Production" (APP) to capture the temporal dimension of production processes. It is inspired by Böhm-Bawerk’s capital theory.
February 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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PLEASE RT :)

Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics

Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)

Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
January 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May.

✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social

✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk).

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ESSGN Conference IV
Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…
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November 28, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
December 30, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Health Economics (Early View): A new study by Cícero et al. demonstrates that decreased trade tariffs and looser trade regulations is associated with lower cyclical mortality rates in Brazil. Trade is good for your health! (Very timely research!)

doi.org/10.1002/hec....
Trade Liberalization and Mortality Rates: Evidence of Pro‐Cyclical Mortality From Brazil
We trace the evolution of all-cause mortality rates in Brazilian regions with varying exposure to trade-induced economic shocks before, during, and after liberalization reforms in the 1990s. We find ...
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
November 27, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Studying Continuous, Time-varying, and/or Complex Exposures Using Longitudinal Modified Treatment Policies

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Studying Continuous, Time-varying, and/or Complex Exposures ... : Epidemiology
age treatment effect. Longitudinal modified treatment policies apply to a wide variety of exposures, including binary, multivariate, and continuous, and can accommodate time-varying treatments and con...
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November 25, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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The premier conference on the economics of migration in Latin America

Submissions due Dec. 15 — held in April 2025 at ITAM in CDMX

From the all-stars Ana María Ibáñez, Sandra Rozo, Anna Maria Mayda, Felipe Gomez, Patricia Cortés, Cynthia van der Werf, @hlarreguy.bsky.social, Marcela Melendez
October 25, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
Long COVID: a clinical update
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to sever...
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November 24, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)
November 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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A great thing about OpenBook publishers is that we could publish a second edition of our book within 7 months after the 1st edition. So here we are: A second edition (quite improved!) of our book is available for free downloading at arielrubinstein.org/gt/arielDocs....
November 14, 2024 at 6:14 AM