Sam Burn

Absolutely flabbergasting #EconSky

Almost 40% cuts to UK foreign aid. It’s hard to express how sad and disappointed I am by this. We should be stepping up to help cover the USAID shortfall, not doing the same thing

The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives.
www.nber.org/papers/w33357

Wow, these are all amazing resources! Thanks so much 🙏

Please give me examples of great papers using the IPUMS-DHS data to inspire my MSc students! (Also any tips for working with these data as an instructor…)

a graph of Danish GDP growth, which increases 22.5% from Q1 2016 to Q3 2024, next to Danish Real GDP ex Pharmaceutical Manufacturing rising 16%

Production of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy continues to power the Danish economy—since late 2021, Danish GDP growth has been 3.6%, but it would have been 0% without the contribution of rapid pharmaceutical manufacturing growth

I was asked to write on a topic that Tom McGuire is a world expert in. Tom is retired. Wasn’t on my dissertation committee. Never coauthored with him. He was traveling across the world when I emailed him. “Comments on this draft pls? Due in 48 hrs”. Detailed, incisive comments came back next day.

Israel strikes Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp | CNN An Israeli strike on the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza caused many casualties, officials in the enclave said Tuesday.

I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.

U.N. human rights lawyer resigns, criticizes the agency and calls the Israeli strikes in Gaza ‘gen...

The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.

A stat I will tell anyone who will listen: the number of people who are uninsured but *eligible for Medicaid* (7.4M in 2021) is more than three times as large as the number of people in the failure-to-expand Medicaid gap (1.9M in 2021)

That's administrative burdens, not lack of affordability

various climate records broken depicted in charts a. Antarctic sea ice extent (10 km²: rel. to 1991-2023 mean) b. 20 Global sea ice extent (10 km²; rel. to 1991-2023 mean) 0- C. North Atlantic ocean sea surface temp. anomaly ("C; rel. to 1991-2023 mean) d. World ocean sea surface temp. anomaly ("C; rel. to 1991-2023 mean: 60S-60N) 1.0- 0.50- 0.5 0.25 0.0 0.00 -0.5- -0.25- -0.50- -1.04 World surface temp. ("C; 2 m height; rel. to 1850-1900 mean) f. Cumulative area burned in Canada (million hectares) 1.5- 15 10 1.0- 0.5- 0.0+ Jan 01 Apr 01 Jul 01 Oct 01 Year 50 Jan 01 2000 2010 2020 Apr 01 Jul 01 Oct 01 2023

The 2023 state of the climate report: it's fucked

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‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal?

By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada.

“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.

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