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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 26d

The group was lots of fun, the quality of papers and discussions keeps increasing and we have academics from all over joining. My wish is to have more Croatians (possibly doctoral students and ECRs) involved. So, if you know someone, spread the word!

Stay tuned for the next edition!

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 26d

Giving credit where it's due, EUHEA (with then president Prof Mathias Kifmann) and @mattxsutton.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social were instrumental in starting all this. Once again, we had a blast. The local organiser Lana Kordić (Faculty of Economics, U. of Split) and the City treated us very well.

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 26d

🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).

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HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎉Today is the first day of the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (CHEW). 🎉
To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · Sep 3

New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications

Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Aug 27

Thank you for expressing my thoughts so clearly, Roy

youtube.com/shorts/6x3b3...

What happened at Beckham's birthday party!? 🎉 🕺

YouTube video by The Overlap

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Aug 25

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...

Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯

This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.

#rstats #econsky

Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.

dbreg(
tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#>
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> fare_amount 0.106744 0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086 0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6

Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · Aug 5

Quick @Stata tip: use the "coeflegend" option in a regression to display the name Stata uses for each coefficient.

reg price mpg i.foreign##i.rep78, coeflegend

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HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jul 8

Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social.

@manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jul 3

Meaning: These findings underscore the substantial economic benefits of timely mental health interventions, highlighting how reduced waiting times can mitigate productivity losses and enhance employment stability for those experiencing mental health challenges.

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jul 3

Findings: Living in area with faster access to treatment significantly affects labour market outcomes. One SD decrease in median area-level waiting time (~ 10.5 days) leads to a 1.5 pp drop in employment gap between individuals in good/poor mental health. Similar result (1 pp) for being off work.

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jul 3

Goal: we ask if longer waiting times for mental healthcare impact individuals' labour outcomes. Using UKHLS (15-19) data, we focus on timeliness of access to the NHS Talking Therapies, a large public mental healthcare programme that increased supply of psychotherapy to treat anxiety and depression.

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jul 3

📣 New paper alert 📣

Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.

Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social

The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes

The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · May 26

One week left!

HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · May 16

📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)!

The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.

Closing date: 02/06/2025

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · May 16

📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)!

The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.

Closing date: 02/06/2025

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · May 9

📣Just over a week to submit for the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop in Split, 8th-9th September 2025.📣

Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Mar 25

The Croatian Health Economics Association is happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in #Split on 8th-9th September 2025.

Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · Mar 28

Logging into ORCID so I can log into Web of Science so I can log into Manuscript Central so I can submit a referee report for free

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Mar 25

The call for abstracts is now OPEN, with submissions welcome until the 18th May 2025. Submissions of 350 words abstracts or full paper (and any question) to [email protected]!

Organising committee:
Prof. Ana Bobinac, Igor Francetić, Lana Kordić, Ismar Velić, Prof. Daniel Maceira (themed call)

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Mar 25

Alongside an open call, this year CHEW will also feature a special session focused on cross-learning between Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. Postdocs, PhD and Master students from Latin America across European Uni's are encouraged to submit their papers for this themed call.

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Mar 25

The Croatian Health Economics Association is happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in #Split on 8th-9th September 2025.

Keynotes:
- Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Feb 19

That's just people queuing at A&Es you idiot

www.lbc.co.uk/hot-topics/e...

Police quash claims armed ‘migrant mob’ stormed hospital after Elon Musk reposts fake AI-generated image

Elon Musk is under fire after reposting a fake AI-generated image claiming to show a "migrant mob" storming a hospital in Birmingham with weapons.

www.lbc.co.uk

Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jan 30

We decided to stay on the coast, so after starting North (Opatija, 2023) and going all the way South (Dubrovnik, 2024), Split was the obvious missing city (somewhat) in the middle. The 2nd City in HR, it went from being Roman, to Byzantine and Venetian. Beautiful.

Pic by mana5280@Unsplash.

Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · Jan 30

📣To all economists with an interest adjacent to health📣
We're happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Call for abstracts will be released at the beginning of March 2025. SAVE THE DATE in your calendar if interested!

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