My newest research. www.nber.org/papers/w32978#econsky

"Despair" and Death in the United States

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...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,138,081!

4/ there would have been 271 and 447 thousand fewer deaths than if all states had restrictions similar to the 10 least restrictive states. Behavior changes probably played an important explanatory role.

3/ restrictions, covering: activity limitations, mask requirements or prohibitions, & vaccine requirement or prohibitions. Key findings are that if all states had adopted restrictions similar to the 10 most restrictive states, there would have been 271 and 447 thousand fewer deaths

2/ months of the pandemic are not included because there was little policy variation at that point and infection/death rates were largely determined by idiosyncratic factors (see the paper for evidence). The primary analysis looks at “packages” of weak versus strong restrictions, covering:

1/ I thought I’d summarize results of my new study “US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths” published today in JAMA Health Forum (doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2006). The study looks at excess deaths from 7/20-6/22. The first months of the pandemic are not included because

The police actions shown here are outrageous. Who authorized this?

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At minute 1:04 watch a police officer arrest a professor of economics. Not the best look for the police. I hope the President of Emory University is fired for green lighting this police riot. www.cnn.com/videos/us/20...

See police detain members of crowd at Emory University during pro-Palestinian protest | CNN

Video shows pro-Palestinian protesters forcefully arrested on the Emory University campus in Atlanta after an encampment was formed in the campus quad area. Emory University, in a statement from the c...

For prior research, I have used SEER race-age-sex-specific population data as the denominator for calculating mortality rates. However, these data have not been updated past 2020 and it appears that there is no plan to do so. Ideas for alternative sources for recent years? (State level only is OK).

Whatever your views on the Israeli-Gaza situation, can someone explain to me the rationale for the US giving massive amounts of aid to Israel given that they have the 11th highest GDP per capita in the world?

If you are interested in understanding how excess deaths in the US evolved during the first two-years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you can get that information (for free) here: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

The Evolution of Excess Deaths in the United States During the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemi...

Abstract. Understanding consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic requires information on the excess mortality resulting from it. Multiple studies have examined exc