Jason Fletcher
@jasonmfletcher
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Prof: Public Affairs & Population Health Sciences @UWMadison; Author: @thegenomefactor; From @CityofAthensPR; Education: @UTKnoxville. views my own.
Madison, WI
Joined March 2010
My excellent Conversation with Sam Altman: https://t.co/YkUAJnglJm,
@sama
conversationswithtyler.com
How hard is it to change someone's mind, and could AI do it accidentally?
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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: https://t.co/1DSR2NZ38p The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
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Examining the effects of fertility during midlife on later-life longevity using Social Security Administration death records linked with the full-count 1940 census, from @jasonmfletcher and @HNoghani
https://t.co/sAw4oMYwUQ
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Three big announcements concerning new data from the AEA on the #EconJobMarket First, there are now live dashboards on AEA JOE that show the # of jobs listed on JOE each week, with comparisons to recent years. https://t.co/0yNlewc2zI...
#EconTwitter 1/many
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Using a new data to reevaluate previous studies on the income-mortality relationship, from @HNoghani and @jasonmfletcher
https://t.co/buq5EJtq0l
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I think this piece does a particularly good job summarizing and explaining the findings from our new PNAS paper on longevity trends: https://t.co/GJRmJmNKin Link to the open-access original article:
pnas.org
The fast-paced improvements in mortality in high-income countries since the early 1900s have led to a sustained increase in life expectancy. Howeve...
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@Jiacheng_Miao's PIGEON paper on GxE methodology is now published @NatureHumBehav with a new title. In our view, this paper can reshape the study design for future complex trait GxE work. Paper📰 https://t.co/UjPbAmhrp8 Software🧑💻 https://t.co/564QCMFIEV
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In this Article, the authors introduce PIGEON, a statistical framework for estimating gene-environment interactions for complex traits. @Jiacheng_Miao @Q_StatGen
https://t.co/kWbUZdsduB
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In March last year, at the age of 35, I was diagnosed with advanced stage III rectal cancer with a metastasis in my liver. This was a shock: I had no family history, and none of the doctors suspected it. In fact, I'd had a negative occult blood test when I went to ER with severe
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🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by @JohnHolbein1 alerted me, @OlleFolke, and Joop Adema (@Jopieboy) to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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10/ Please help share our extended replication to stop the spread of this erroneous policy evaluation! Read the new report here: https://t.co/sjO4FSeZJm
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🎓Excited to share two big milestones: ✅ Defended my PhD in Economics at @UWM ✅ Accepted a tenure-track Assistant Prof. position at @APSUBusiness starting this fall! Grateful for all the support. Can’t wait to keep teaching & researching! #PhDDefense #EconTwitter
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“An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”: @HectorP90663372 et al. introduce a new perspective "that fully incorporates cohort trajectories of all cohorts alive in the period of consideration.” @uwcdha @UW_CDE @UWLaFollette @MPIDRnews
https://t.co/lPNgq4tbws
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A study of Nobel Prize winners suggests changing your scenery leads to better, more creative work, from John Ham, Brian Quistorff, and Bruce A. Weinberg, https://t.co/RKxsy4fLAm
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How is an American research university funded? https://t.co/iPqPHD8nrL
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IZA in Bonn is closing down by December 31, 2025! https://t.co/Nk3DapE5yS
@Glabor_org #EconTwitter @UNUMERIT @GalorOded @milenkanik
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What is IZA? Some information: LINK The German Post Foundation has just announced the decision to close down the research institute IZA in Bonn on December 3
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We are delighted to announce our next brownbag seminar on Feb 19, 12pm, w/ Jason Fletcher (@jasonmfletcher), who will present on "Moving forward by looking back: New evidence that early life shapes our lifespan.” 310 Social Sciences & zoom. Do join us!
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🧵 On a Friday night, the NIH twitter account announced the most significant change to research funding in decades. What are indirect costs, how are universities funded and what are the impacts?
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above
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Beyond excited to share this new paper with all of you . It's the most fun we've ever had. We figured out how to study a latent index driving partner choice without measuring it directly🥂 @qinwen_zzz Preprint📰: https://t.co/dLsmZvcjiV Sumstats⬇️: https://t.co/0LJOblAOmR
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African Americans who changed their racial identity and "passed" as white in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lived approximately 9.4 months longer, on average, than their non-passing siblings, from @HNoghani and @jasonmfletcher
https://t.co/hzRtWPZSTl
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