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Igor Francetic

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{Applied ∪ Health}⊂Econ | Research Fellow at @hope-uom.bsky.social‬ | SNSF Ambizione Fellow at SUPSI | A mind-wandering seabound soul who played #waterpolo

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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 09/02/2026
SAVE THE DATE: The Croatian Health Economics Association is pleased to announce that the 4th Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW2026) will take place at Hotel Lone in Rovinj on *23rd and 24th* September 2026. Call for abstracts out in March 2026. Join us, we have the sea and good vibes!
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 21/01/2026
@hope-uom.bsky.social impact!
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 21/01/2026
No. 10 #BJGPTop10 Clinical pharmacists: Prescribing quality improved in practices with clinical pharmacists doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @hope-uom.bsky.social @igorfrancetic.fyi #ClinicalPharmacists #Prescribing #MultidisciplinaryCare #OpioidReduction #AntibioticStewardship #PrimaryCare #BJGP #research
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 12/09/2025
The group was lots of fun, the quality of papers and discussions keeps increasing and we have academics from all over joining. My wish is to have more Croatians (possibly doctoral students and ECRs) involved. So, if you know someone, spread the word! Stay tuned for the next edition!
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 12/09/2025
Giving credit where it's due, EUHEA (with then president Prof Mathias Kifmann) and @mattxsutton.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social were instrumental in starting all this. Once again, we had a blast. The local organiser Lana Kordić (Faculty of Economics, U. of Split) and the City treated us very well.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 12/09/2025
🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).
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HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🎉Today is the first day of the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (CHEW). 🎉 To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".
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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 27/08/2025
Thank you for expressing my thoughts so clearly, Roy youtube.com/shorts/6x3b3...
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What happened at Beckham's birthday party!? 🎉 🕺
YouTube video by The Overlap
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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky
Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.

dbreg(
   tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
   path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
   vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#> 
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount 
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#>                  Estimate Std. Error  t value  Pr(>|t|)    
#> fare_amount      0.106744   0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086   0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.
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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Quick @Stata tip: use the "coeflegend" option in a regression to display the name Stata uses for each coefficient. reg price mpg i.foreign##i.rep78, coeflegend
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HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 08/07/2025
Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social. @manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 03/07/2025
Meaning: These findings underscore the substantial economic benefits of timely mental health interventions, highlighting how reduced waiting times can mitigate productivity losses and enhance employment stability for those experiencing mental health challenges.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 03/07/2025
Findings: Living in area with faster access to treatment significantly affects labour market outcomes. One SD decrease in median area-level waiting time (~ 10.5 days) leads to a 1.5 pp drop in employment gap between individuals in good/poor mental health. Similar result (1 pp) for being off work.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 03/07/2025
Goal: we ask if longer waiting times for mental healthcare impact individuals' labour outcomes. Using UKHLS (15-19) data, we focus on timeliness of access to the NHS Talking Therapies, a large public mental healthcare programme that increased supply of psychotherapy to treat anxiety and depression.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 03/07/2025
📣 New paper alert 📣 Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics. Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social
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The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes
The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 26/05/2025
One week left!
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HOPE at UoM @hope-uom.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)! The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi. Closing date: 02/06/2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 09/05/2025
📣Just over a week to submit for the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop in Split, 8th-9th September 2025.📣
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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Logging into ORCID so I can log into Web of Science so I can log into Manuscript Central so I can submit a referee report for free
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 25/03/2025
The call for abstracts is now OPEN, with submissions welcome until the 18th May 2025. Submissions of 350 words abstracts or full paper (and any question) to chew@efri.uniri.hr! Organising committee: Prof. Ana Bobinac, Igor Francetić, Lana Kordić, Ismar Velić, Prof. Daniel Maceira (themed call)
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 25/03/2025
Alongside an open call, this year CHEW will also feature a special session focused on cross-learning between Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. Postdocs, PhD and Master students from Latin America across European Uni's are encouraged to submit their papers for this themed call.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 25/03/2025
The Croatian Health Economics Association is happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in #Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Keynotes: - Prof. Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Prof. Daniel Maceira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 19/02/2025
That's just people queuing at A&Es you idiot www.lbc.co.uk/hot-topics/e...
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Police quash claims armed ‘migrant mob’ stormed hospital after Elon Musk reposts fake AI-generated image
Elon Musk is under fire after reposting a fake AI-generated image claiming to show a "migrant mob" storming a hospital in Birmingham with weapons.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 30/01/2025
We decided to stay on the coast, so after starting North (Opatija, 2023) and going all the way South (Dubrovnik, 2024), Split was the obvious missing city (somewhat) in the middle. The 2nd City in HR, it went from being Roman, to Byzantine and Venetian. Beautiful. Pic by mana5280@Unsplash.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 30/01/2025
📣To all economists with an interest adjacent to health📣 We're happy to announce that the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (#CHEW) will be held in Split on 8th-9th September 2025. Call for abstracts will be released at the beginning of March 2025. SAVE THE DATE in your calendar if interested!
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Clare Bambra @profbambra.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our new study shows that the #covid vaccination reduced inequalities in mortality bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
line graph showing a decline in the covid mortality gap between deprived and affluent areas once the vaccination was rolled out
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
fortune.com/2024/04/23/f...
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 03/01/2025
📣 CfP: Workshop on 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 📍 𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟰 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲, Italy. Keynotes: Jonathan Kolstad (Berkeley) & Carol Propper (Imperial Coll.) Organizers: @jkwinter.bsky.social (LMU) & @arieldora.bsky.social (HPI, Uni Potsdam) Submit until 𝟵 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 👇 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
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Venice Summer Institute 2025: Digital Healthcare
Organizers: Joachim Winter and Ariel SternThe digital transformation of health care has included the roll-out and adoption of new tools and approaches, including electronic health records, telemedicin...
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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How snowflakes get their intricate shapes
From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors such as temperature can influence their shape.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’m working on updates the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals connected to January 6th. I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼
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NBER @nber.org · 28/12/2024
New tools for dynamic-treatment effect estimation with instrumental variables show the effects of revascularization on quality of life are larger and more persistent than conventional analyses suggest, from Angrist, Ferman, Gao, Hull, Tecchio, Yeh www.nber.org/papers/w33296
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 29/12/2024
Incredible piece of technology. Some say it's a key factor behind the Solow's residual.
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 27/12/2024
#weirdetimology "Umarèll" is a new word of the year 2024 in Sweden. The word - originating from Bologna's dialect - describes an old man watching construction projects with hands crossed behind their back Umarèlls are also great motivating devices for your desk www.spiritolibero.ch/products/cop...
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Ellie Fichera @elliefichera.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We have an exciting position as Research Fellow (FT, open ended) in our new Research Centre for 21st Century Public Health at the University of Bath. For more info and to apply, follow the link: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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CH12227 Research Fellow - Jobs at Bath
Research Fellow
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 14/12/2024
#etimology Biscuit = twice-baked
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Sam Merriel @sammerriel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Come join a growing #primarcare #cancer team in #Manchester with a #PhD studentship focused on #prostatecancer #inequalities within the @fbmh-uom.bsky.social #Bicentenary programme tinyurl.com/y68zby98 @mcrcnews.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social @cruk-mi.bsky.social @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social
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(Bicentenary) Ethnic, geographic, and sociodemographic inequalities in prostate cancer outcomes in the United Kingdom at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (Bicentenary) Ethnic, geographic, and sociodemographic inequalities in prostate cancer outcomes in the United Kingdom at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 09/12/2024
Ouch. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity
(December 2024) - We provide evidence that classic lottery anomalies like probability weighting and loss aversion are not special phenomena of risk. They also arise (and often with equal strength) whe...
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 04/12/2024
The HOPE group at the University of Manchester is now on bsky. Give it a follow! bsky.app/profile/hope...
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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
6 tips for evaluators on reporting null results 3ieimpact.org/blogs/how-co... from 3IE's Sebastian Martinez (Not the same but relatedly, I wrote a piece on how to publish statistically significant results in economics. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...)
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Psychology’s fraud crisis — following hot on the heels of its replication crisis — just keeps on keeping on. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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Vitor Possebom @vitorpossebom.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Econometrics Thread: Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE) Today, I will explain the basics of MTE and will mention the papers that I believe to be important. As my wife says, I like to preach and spread the Gospel of MTE. (PS: I'm moving some of my Twitter threads to here.)
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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
The University of Leipzig seeks to fill a Professorship in Public Economics. Relevant research interests include (intertemporal) allocative and distributive effects of public policies, such as environmental policy. Deadline: January 11, 2024. 📉📈 #EnvEcon www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit...
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Sixty years ago this month in the AER. Many would agree that this paper launched the field of health economics. www.jstor.org/stable/1812044
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 01/12/2023
Details: www.supsi.ch/en/bando1248
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Igor Francetic @igorfrancetic.fyi · 01/12/2023
🚨PhD opportunity🚨: Join me at SUPSI for an exciting SNSF-funded project looking at welfare & equity at the intersection of primary care, emergency care, and health insurance choices. The project involves collaborations with: Uni of Manchester, CSS Institute & EOC. Deadline: 29/02/2024, Details ⬇
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