Dan Ly
meddly.bsky.social
Dan Ly
@meddly.bsky.social
Physician and health economist. Assistant prof at UCLA GIM&HSR. Studying physician decision-making and health care disparities. https://sites.google.com/view/danply/
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🚨New paper🚨The emergency department (ED) is like a box of chocolates; you never know which doc you're gonna get. What happens when you get a doc that admits patients more often? Are you less likely to die? @stephencoussens and I explore this question in @JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/
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Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572

Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual
We develop a step-by-step guide to leniency (a.k.a. judge or examiner instrument) designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures. The unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator (UJIVE) is...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Kid a few years from now: “Daddy, why is my name Yoshinobu?”
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Someone on a listserv I was on asked how to install SPSS on a server. I scoffed before realizing one day soon I'll be asking how to install Stata on a server and someone else will be rolling their eyes...
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A great listen!!!
September 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!

Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🚨New paper🚨The emergency department (ED) is like a box of chocolates; you never know which doc you're gonna get. What happens when you get a doc that admits patients more often? Are you less likely to die? @stephencoussens and I explore this question in @JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/
December 23, 2024 at 9:46 PM
😭😭😭
I will never recover from this student email.
November 28, 2023 at 12:52 AM
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Happy Halloween, y’all. Here’s something scary for you today. #EconSky #EduSky
October 31, 2023 at 12:27 PM
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PSA: many of your Israeli, Palestinian, and Jewish friends and colleagues are experiencing trauma and grief right now.
Reach out to show you care about them. One human being to another. Politics aside.
I’m not okay but I gain much strength and comfort from all of you who did so. Thank you.
October 16, 2023 at 2:50 AM