People living below sea level behind the dykes in the Netherlands haven’t drowned in years, so it’s clear we don’t need the dykes anymore.

As the retirement age of physicians increases (generallly good news), quality and safety of patiënt care may be at risk.

How do we deal with this, given that many of the senior staff resist audit and feedback?

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From Claudia Goldin: the negative association between household tasks and care tasks within the household and fertility.

Has anyone here (or know someone who has) studied the association between informal care and fertility?

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Strong variations on what should have been an objective fact: the development of income inequality over time.

Super interesting from a methodological, economical and political perspective (including the politics of US-economics).

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Life expectancy in EU was 81.3y in 2019 and declined to 80.1 in 2021 (latest year available).

Women had a 5.7y advantage, but not in Northern France, Belgium, Netherlands (see graph), Denmark, and Northern Germany.

Was it emancipation that caused higher smoking rates?

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Contrary to our expectations RF-ML outperformed OLS by a large margin even with our restrictive limitations.

Moreover, GBM-ML was much better able to identify groups vulnerable for risk selection.

We compared linear regression with machine learning techniques (RF and GBM) to optimize risk equalization for health insurance. Using the same set of explanatory variables we found that ML performed significantly better than traditional econometric techniques.

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