Ezra Golberstein

@egolberstein.bsky.social

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Health policy and economics. Some Prince, some Minnesota. Opinions my own.

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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 12h

Every clever post of mine has a typo. Every single time.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 12h

You do know that the Rebecca Black Friday sale is just siting there, right?

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 14h

Fascinating.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 14h

JWs don’t do thanksgiving? I had no idea.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 14h

Best dessert is picking turkey off the bone while standing at the counter, anyway

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 16h

I’ll let you know what my kids think

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 20h

But the good news is that if your brother shows clear evidence of enjoying his gift after three months, you will get one too.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 20h

It somehow eluded my spam filter.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 21h

My kids are going to be so excited about their Chanukah present this year!

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Ezra Golberstein, David Darmofal

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums.

@reuters.com $XLV
www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

No way

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

Now that’s a conclusion that goes beyond the data!

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a weird way of saying that. One could just say something like, “I don’t buy your inference bc it relies on assumption X which doesn’t hold for reason Y.” If someone can’t articulate it like that, it just seems ornery.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

Since this is getting reposted a lot, adding that this paper looks great and I’m excited to read this before I teach metrics next semester. bsky.app/profile/susa...

Susan Athey @susanathey.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.

Golub Capital Social Impact Lab @gsbsilab.bsky.social · Oct 20

New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

It was pretty low hanging fruit

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

What does that even mean?

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Aaron Sojourner , and 3 more Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Todd Pugatch, David L. Anderson

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”

Golub Capital Social Impact Lab @gsbsilab.bsky.social · Oct 20

New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner , and 4 more Michael A. Clemens, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul Nightingale, David L. Anderson, Ezra Golberstein

Susan Athey @susanathey.bsky.social · 2d

Golub Capital Social Impact Lab @gsbsilab.bsky.social · Oct 20

New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 4d

The new CDC acronyms write themselves.
Centers for Disease Collaboration and Promotion.

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 5d

“Varied”

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 5d

I always had a feeling that shakshuka caused Trump, but never felt empowered to voice it until now.

Reposted by Ezra Golberstein

Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

Some thoughts on optimizing prior authorization in Medicare Advantage, co-authored with some of my favorite scholars @hneprash.bsky.social, @michaelannica.bsky.social, and @egolberstein.bsky.social, and supported by @commonwealthfund.org

www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2025/re...

Rethinking Prior Authorization in Medicare Advantage

Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources in Medicare Advantage, but there should be limits on when it’s required.

www.commonwealthfund.org

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 6d

So… who needs more cat pictures to help cope with everything?

Reposted by Sarah E. Gollust

Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 6d

I know it’s hard, but remember that it wasn’t just Cassidy that voted for this. It was every GOP senator but McConnell. And a lot of needless suffering will result.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.

Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”

Note the language in second photo.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Sarah E. Gollust, Ameet Sarpatwari , and 8 more Brendan Nyhan, Sarah E. Gollust, Ameet Sarpatwari, Smith, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Robert C. Richards, Dean Eckles, Lisa Diedrich, Ezra Golberstein, Dana Howard, Timothy D. McBride

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d

Reposted by Heather Boushey, Steven N. Durlauf, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers , and 10 more Heather Boushey, Steven N. Durlauf, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Joshua Goodman, Valerie Mueller, Climent Quintana‐Domeque, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Todd Pugatch, Daniel Kuehn, David A. Jaeger, Laura Hospido, Kathryn A. Edwards, Ezra Golberstein

CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 6d

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.