Matt Notowidigdo
@ProfNoto
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Labor Economics & Health Economics @ChicagoBooth AEJ-Policy co-editor @AEAJournals Research Associate @nberpubs
Chicago, IL
Joined July 2017
My annual tradition continues -- my 10 favorite economics papers published in 2021, ordered alphabetically. [Meant to do this yesterday, but I had a paper rejected on New Year's Day -- Happy New Year! -- so I decided to deal with that instead].
Just under the wire again, but I continue my annual tradition -- my 10 favorite economics papers published in 2020, ordered alphabetically. [Was pretty tough this year; might have to do an "honorable mention" list in January. ].
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RT @tyleransom: Exactly as @ProfNoto @C_Garthwaite @NicoleOzm and Jordan Keener drew it up in their paper on NCAA athletes!. "As part of th….
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Oklahoma State and Mike Gundy have reached an agreement on a restructured contract, and he will remain as the Cowboys' coach.
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RT @evankrose: Chicago labor/public folks (including me) are hiring new research professionals! We have a great program that provides a ton….
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The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) works with the Chicago Economics community to turn its evidence-based research into real-world impact. BFI takes a unique approach to bridging the...
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Had a great experience earlier this year using Standard Error Research Editors (@SamInLowerCase / . The company makes an admirable effort to keep their services affordable to students -- keep in mind for your JMPs!.
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At Standard Error we help you present your work in clear and sharp English and align it with the editorial expectations and the standards of top journals.
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ChatGPT 4o gets this wrong, too, though it does a nice job parsing the PNG
Only 55% of people worldwide got this simple table reading question from the 2012 international PISA exam correct. About half the world struggles to read graphs or do basic data interpretation
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In other @JPAL_NA news: we are continuing to accept self-nominations for invited researchers (application deadline is August 1st):
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I'm excited about this amazing line-up of @JPAL_NA-funded studies that will be presented this week at the NBER Summer Institute:
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RT @smilleralert: It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and….
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RT @tradeoffspod: Over the last decade, cities, states and even @iamjohnoliver have embraced a popular health care charity: forgiving peopl….
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RT @JPAL: To further strengthen equity & diversity in our research network, we are once again accepting self-nominations for invited resear….
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Today's wisdom from Overleaf: "Things are pretty mixed up, but I think the worst is over".
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RT @JPAL_NA: Read our affiliate spotlight of Bill Evans (co-founder of @LEOatND), where he discusses holistic approaches to reducing povert….
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RT @BeckerFriedman: In this episode of The Pie, @ChicagoBooth's @ProfNoto discusses how economic downturns can lead to valuable health gain….
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Great information and very useful templates!. My advisor's advice when I was a PhD student was to play the "desperate grad student" card ("I really really need the data for my dissertation"), but that doesn't always work and sometimes FOIAs are going to be necessary.
I’ve successfully filed 8 FOIAs and won 3 FOIA lawsuits. The following thread is a guide to filing a FOIA request as a researcher, including templates and real example filings. Please RT! If this thread is helpful, I'll write a Part 2 on filing FOIA lawsuits. 1/10.
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(Side note: Hearing the @stereolabgroop lead-in/lead-out music made me smile; my childhood friend Arijit Guha introduced me to the band back in high school, and I think he would have been so excited to hear it playing before my interview .
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When Arijit Guha exhausted his health insurance benefits, he turned to t-shirt sales to finance his cancer treatment. After seeing positive results last summer, Guha passed away from colon cancer...
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Really enjoyed this conversation about my new paper on the Great Recession and mortality rates (; if you want a ~20-minute summary of my paper, check out this interview!.
fresh audio product:. • Ajay Singh Chaudhary <@materialist_jew> talks about his new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World .• Matt Notowidigdo <@profnoto> on how recessions increase life expectancy.
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RT @heidilwilliams_: Grateful to our editing team Erik Hurst @ProfJAParker @NinaPavcnik @TimothyTTaylor and especially our authors for thi….
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RT @Erdal_Tekin_: Excited to launch the "Policy Insights" section within @JPAM_DC, created to accelerate the dissemination of short article….
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(As a former journal editor, I have to add that I think I tried hard to make sure I was always giving papers with "unsexy answers" a fair chance at being published. Here's one example from my time at AEJ-Policy: .
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(November 2022) - The Earned Income Tax Credit distributes more than $60 billion to over 20 million low-income families annually. Nevertheless, an estimated one-fifth of eligible households do not...
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"And it might end up being an unsexy answer, therefore published in an unsexy place, but it doesn't remotely change my level of satisfaction about and pride in the work that led to that outcome.". (Source: 2024 "Minority Report", .
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