Timothy Layton
@timothyjlayton
E-cargo bike Dad, avid run-commuter. Assoc Prof of Pub Pol and Econ @UVABatten, @nberpubs RA, and @JPAL. Via @HMSHCP @bu_economics and @BYUecon.
Somehow the name of the HBS phd student extraordinaire didn't make it into this tweet: It's Bohan Li, and she's awesome! Stay tuned for a health affairs podcast she did about our paper coming out soon.
New paper in this month's Health Affairs, with HBS PhD student extraordinaire (link in next tweet): We show that Medicaid managed care has shifted substantially over time from a program dominated by local insurers to one dominated by national for-profit insurers.
Just published in @JPubEcon: "The dynamic fiscal costs of outsourcing health insurance - evidence from Medicaid" By @timothyjlayton & @EranPolitzer sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics #publicfinance #healtheconomics
We need a centrist rebellion. Wokism was insufferable. trumpisn is 10 times worse. The trouble with us centrists is that we give people the benefit of the doubt. It’s also our greatest quality. We are aware that we don’t know everything. But we also know BS when we see it.
The woke are still utterly insufferable.
This. It's gun violence, opioid overdoses, car accidents and drowning in swimming pools that separates us from the comparison countries for the most part. It's mostly not because of private health insurance.
Here's another way of looking at it: the US mortality gap is huge for younger ages, nonexistent for older age cohorts x.com/jburnmurdoch/s…
I'm mostly confused as to why the AEA thinks that economists either need or would be responsive guidance on this topic.
I'm sick of the AEA acting like it has the right to be the arbiter of how our profession should operate. Social media isn't just for interacting with other economists. A big part of why I use it, especially when talking about policy, is to communicate with people outside of…
1/ This is a great visualization and excellent thread! The point about economic incentives is an important one. Incidentally, Olivia Zhao (HBS) and I just recently updated our working paper showing how market incentives impact antibiotic innovation. Here's what we found...
Many people talk about the 'Golden Age of Antibiotics' but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. How abundant was antibiotic development during that time period? How many types of antibiotics were developed? So I visualized it myself!
Evidence that the privatization of Medicaid does not save money and likely increases program costs, from @timothyjlayton and @EranPolitzer nber.org/papers/w33302
As America shut down in March 2020, and federal officials struggled to get $$ to desperate health providers, Brian Thompson said UnitedHealth could do it asap — and they did. The $135 billion fund helped keep countless providers afloat. Thompson’s role has never been reported.
Absolutely agree with @tylercowen that that this piece by @pahlkadot on how DOGE is uniquely suited to blast DC out of its risk averse culture and tiny reform agenda, for better or worse, is among year's best. Count me on the side willing to take the risk. eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-elo…
Looks like @MattAFiedler and @bf_churchill found it. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32061298/ (very bad) methods aside, paper is estimating mortality effects of giving people insurance. Kinda enormous leap from that to "insurers kill 68k ppl every year... (shocking, I know)
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