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Chris Ruhm

@chrisruhm.bsky.social
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Economics from the head and the heart.

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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#healtheconomics #economics 1/ I’m trying to extract a variable in MEPS for self-assessed mental health (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent) but I can’t find it on IPUMs. According to AI the name should be MNHLTH. Is it there and I’m missing it, under some other name, or not there?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | This Problem Is Easy to Solve
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
1/ My article "Mental Health and Mortality Trends in the United States" has just been published by the Journal of Health Economics. You can access it for free (for a while) using the link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCV0c7LGG... This is a revised & renamed version of NBER Working paper no. 32978.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My expertise is broader than I realized! "I believe you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "The Use of Metaphors in Paremiological Units of English, Russian, and Kazakh Languages: A Study Based on the Thematic Group "Labor-Idleness," submitted to Forum for Linguistic Studies."
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Lots of great point here. I particularly agree with the idea of being upfront about the weaknesses in your approach/results. I think readers will be a lot more forgiving if you are. Also the point about revising, although it take me at least 10 drafts to get anything decent.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's good to know the extent of my economic expertise!
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
1/ There has been lots of talk about the ideas of (toxic) masculinity coming out of those currently in power. Here is some of what masculinity means to me: 1. Protecting and supporting those who are less powerful or in need.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
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Opinion | A Day of American Infamy
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will not be buying anything today!
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Today was the last straw. I just cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Me too!
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Can anyone explain the logic behind the idea that the Trump administration will treat VAT's in other countries as tariffs? These certainly are a tax but one that doesn't affect imports differently than domestic production. Am I missing something? Or is this just an excuse for raising US tariffs?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I've just learned that the Census Bureau has taken all the (formerly) public food security files down from its website. What a world! I grew up hearing about how third world, authoritarian, and communist countries would censor, conceal, and modify data. I never thought I would live in such a place!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Borrow $338 million to pay themselves a dividend" is a really hallucinatory concept, like how do you diagram that out to distinguish it from plain old embezzlement
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A good article on how the government could actually reduce the debt. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Here’s trillions in federal waste the DOGE bros could actually target
Because what's more wasteful than giant tax breaks for people who don't need them?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
OK, I just deactivated the X-tweetie🐦 account. Slightly traumatic, but I feel good to have done it.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
In 2016 and 2020, economists organized to oppose Donald Trump's candidacy for president. It is now time for the economics profession to make the case against Trump once again. If you would like to become a signatory, please complete the form at the following location: forms.gle/DUoLUkZdMQUW....
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Economists Letter 2024
Instructions: Fill in your full name, exactly as you would like it to appear in the letter. Use the following order: first middle (optional) last. Add an institutional affiliation (e.g. University of ...
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
My newest research. www.nber.org/papers/w32978 #econsky
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"Despair" and Death in the United States
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...
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,138,081!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,138,081, Chris Ruhm ‪@chrisruhm.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 20, 2023"
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
1/ I thought I’d summarize results of my new study “US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths” published today in JAMA Health Forum (doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2006). The study looks at excess deaths from 7/20-6/22. The first months of the pandemic are not included because
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
The police actions shown here are outrageous. Who authorized this?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
For prior research, I have used SEER race-age-sex-specific population data as the denominator for calculating mortality rates. However, these data have not been updated past 2020 and it appears that there is no plan to do so. Ideas for alternative sources for recent years? (State level only is OK).
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Whatever your views on the Israeli-Gaza situation, can someone explain to me the rationale for the US giving massive amounts of aid to Israel given that they have the 11th highest GDP per capita in the world?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
If you are interested in understanding how excess deaths in the US evolved during the first two-years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you can get that information (for free) here: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...
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The Evolution of Excess Deaths in the United States During the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemi...
Abstract. Understanding consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic requires information on the excess mortality resulting from it. Multiple studies have examined exc
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
1/ In my view Biden has been a good, albeit imperfect, President, with some tangible achievements. (His initial embrace of the invasion of Gaza by Israel is not one of them.) However, he should not run again for President in 2024. Why not? 1. Whether true or not, he is perceived as being
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
#EconSky 📉📈 1/I posted this a bit more than a year ago to that other site and some seemed to find it helpful, so I thought I’d repost it here. This is aimed at academics in economics, public policy & related areas, but hopefully will be of broader interest.
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
One of the most balanced pieces on this topic that I have seen. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...
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Opinion | ‘We Are Overpaying the Price for a Sin We Didn’t Commit’
Israel has every right to defend itself and fight terrorists. But is this really the best way?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Does paid sick leave reduce fertility by facilitating reproductive choice? We think so. Look at our evidence and let us know what you think. www.nber.org/papers/w31801
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Does Paid Sick Leave Facilitate Reproductive Choice?
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...
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
A final version of my article: "The Evolution of Excess Deaths in the United States During the First Two Years of COVID-19 Pandemic" is up. You can access it here: doi.org/10.1093/aje/... #EconSky📈📉
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/10/2023
“But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians”
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A Textbook Case of Genocide
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
#econsky. And we're also hiring in applied micro! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
#econsky Great opportunity for a climate economist at UVA Batten! Pass the word. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Chris Ruhm @chrisruhm.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
I'm new to blue sky. What's the best way to follow folks I followed on that other site?
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