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Daniel L. Millimet

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Economics 56%
Mathematics 13%
dlmillimet.bsky.social
You love staggered DID?! You wanna bet your life on it? 😂
atheendar.bsky.social
1/ #NaturalExperiments are increasingly being used to answer #clinicalquestions, like how does treatment X affect disease outcome Y.

Recent review by Lizzie Bair and me in NEJM Evidence covers examples and best practices for these types of studies:

evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Natural Experiments to Inform Clinical Practice
Natural experiments refer to events or practices that result in similar individuals receiving different services or interventions for arbitrary reasons. In the clinical context, researchers may wis...
evidence.nejm.org

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eckles.bsky.social
When treating one person might affect others, there's an explosion of possible ways to quantify these effects.

Which of these are relevant to applied problems — like choosing a policy governing treatment?

This is the jumping off point for this new short paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14391
Policy relevance of causal quantities in networks
In settings where units' outcomes are affected by others' treatments, there has been a proliferation of ways to quantify effects of treatments on outcomes. Here we describe how many proposed estimands...
arxiv.org

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smueconomics.bsky.social
🐎@SMU GIVING DAY - ECONOMICS✌️

The economics department runs the largest major at Dedman College and actively produces high-quality research in many fields.

This year, you can directly donate to the Economics Department in SMU's Giving Day campaign!

givingday.smu.edu/campaigns/de...
Department of Economics - SMU Giving Day
The Department of Economics is the largest in the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, serving nearly 700 majors, 70 minors and 60 graduate students.
givingday.smu.edu

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washingtonpost.com
In emails that began arriving late Monday, senior leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were put on administrative leave and offered reassignment to remote locations at the Indian Health Service as other employees began receiving layoff notices.
Massive layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies
The move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.washingtonpost.com

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joshua-goodman.com
Just read this truly lovely history of the fixed effects estimator, a concept I've repeatedly taught and used but never knew the origins of.

(Also helps me justify never using random effects!)

Thanks to Marc Bellemare and @dlmillimet.bsky.social for writing it.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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paperposterbot.bsky.social
link 📈🤖
Partial Identification of Binary Choice Models with Misreported Outcomes () This paper provides partial identification of various binary choice models
with misreported dependent variables. We propose two distinct approaches by
exploiting different instrumental variables respectively. In t

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beatrizgietner.bsky.social
Excited to be in London next week for the @escoeorg.bsky.social Conference 2025
Will participate in a special session about Inequality Across Households on Wednesday :)
Looking forward to presenting, but also to finally meeting prof @dlmillimet.bsky.social in person!
ESCoE Conference 2025 - ESCoE
ESCoE will hold its annual conference on 21 - 23 May 2025 at King’s Business School, King’s College London.
www.escoe.ac.uk

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bencasselman.bsky.social
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump. #EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data
www.nytimes.com

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politico.com
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given an unusual level of authority on the Israel-Iran tensions to Gen. Erik Kurilla, who is known as “The Gorilla.”
Hegseth defers to general on Pentagon’s plans for Iran
U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Erik Kurilla is overruling other top Pentagon officials.
www.politico.com

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maureenc.bsky.social
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded fed law enforcement agency in history, w/ more $$ per year at its disposal over the next four years than the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined
Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
Four Fears about ICE, Trump's New Masked Monster
We're about to pour $200 billion into immigration enforcement—it's a terrible idea, sure, but understanding *specifically* why is important.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
dlmillimet.bsky.social
As someone who was just in Europe for a conference … GET SOME AC! 😂 it was brutal

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sagan.bsky.social
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

~ George Orwell, 1984
dlmillimet.bsky.social
I still have file folders from my UG and grad classes as a *student* in the 1990s

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shooshan.bsky.social
#Econsky 📈📉 does anyone have access to cleaned thermal inversion data for the US 2000-2020 and is willing to share it?
liser-cb.bsky.social
📣 Call for papers - 18th International Conference on #Migration and #Development

📅 Event held September 25-26, 2025 in Paris

🤝 With keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

⌛ Submit by July 15, 2025

#EconSky #Poverty #Inequality #Globalization
dlmillimet.bsky.social
5 hour meeting today. Off to Italy tomorrow. Life as an academic and dept chair. Not complaining.

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