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Peter Eibich

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Health economist with an interest in aging, retirement and preventive care. Professor of Economics, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, IZA & GLO

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · Nov 26

My paper with Emma Zai on the health consequences of caring for grandchildren has been selected for the Kuznets Prize for the best paper published in 2024 in the Journal of Population Economics! Let me use this opportunity for a short introduction. 🧵 1/12 #econsky

link.springer.com/journal/148/...

Journal of Population Economics

link.springer.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

If anybody (in the UK) would like a signed and personalised first edition Everything Will Swallow hardback for cover price plus p&p, please drop me an email at [email protected].

My mum, Jo, has very kindly designed, printed and cut some beautiful bookmarks to go with each purchase (for free).

The Everything Will Swallow You hardback

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 3d

This is pretty shocking to hear for a well-regarded journal

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 3d

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

Have you ever wondered what the Hall would look like just lit by candles?

Wonder no more.

Happy Sunday!

We are looking at a large room lit only by candles. The candles are placed around a fireplace, on ledges around central posts and on tables. The light makes the floor glimmer.

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 19d

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website!
@univdauphine.bsky.social

leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...

Full Professor position in Economics | Laboratoire d’Économie de Dauphine (LEDa)

leda.dauphine.fr

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 5d

Please note this link is initially free to read but will lead you inexorably to a pay wall, behind which you can interact with eager content creators who will respond to your demands* in exchange for £££££

*for detailed financial analysis and contextualised reporting

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 5d

If someone were interested in getting an intro of drug pricing and drug pricing policy in the US, what books or articles would you recommend?

Thanks!

#HealthPolicy

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 7d

😀😂

A picture of various bell peppers cut vertically and the stem end has Googly eyes stuck onto the white part of the interior stem end . They all look either like they’re screaming or ecstatic

The meme says “cutting bell peppers and adding googly eyes is bound to heal your soul a little, give it a try”

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Mine Kühn @minekuhn.bsky.social · 13d

I’m excited to share our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social 🥳 written w/ @angelacar.bsky.social, J. Caputo, L. Ahrenfeldt, @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social

👉 Read the full paper here lnkd.in/enf3Duvg

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/pres...

Study reveals elevated mortality risk for single parents, with single fathers at particularly high risk | Tilburg University

A new study by Tilburg University and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research reveals that single parents in Denmark face significantly higher mortality risks than their partnered counterpar...

www.tilburguniversity.edu

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 6d

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6d

I am begging journalists to stop just repeating the phrase "pull factor" when it comes to a system which provides less than £50 a week to survive on, at best, per week, and denies people the right to work, among other things. The UK asylum system is not a "pull factor" by any measure.

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 7d

This was just about a month ago, so I guess Greenland is not fully off the table?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...

Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over a Reported ‘Influence Operation’ in Greenland

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 7d

Not only is RFKjr spreading disinformation about vaccines, infection & health but advertising for flu/covid vaccines and support for clinical teams to address questions re vaccines is not happening either. ie disproportionately negative vaccine messages dominate which likely will reduce uptake

Viewpoint: What we don’t see about vaccines COULD hurt us

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 8d

Thread (will horrify researchers)

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jul 14

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

www.nature.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10d

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 9d

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS

Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 @mattansb.msbstats.info · 10d

We've all been there... 🫂

Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 11d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 11d

Just discovered what is possibly the greatest headline of all time:
"McDonald’s fries the holy grail for potato farmers"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12d

twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics

with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball

between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis

then he did this

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 12d

This could change my practice. There are risks of overdiagnosis from breast screening but this looks like clear evidence of benefit.

The BMJ @bmj.com · 13d

New @bmj.com study finds that women who don’t turn up for their first breast screening appointment face a 40% higher long term risk of dying from breast cancer, mainly due to delayed detection

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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