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Marshall Burke

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unsolicited commentary on economics and the environment. Stanford prof, +co-founder AtlasAI

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Data Analyst in Dean of Research, Stanford, California, United States
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is seeking a research data analyst (RDA) to contribute to several academic research projects...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
careersearch.stanford.edu
Research Data Analyst in Dean of Research, Stanford, California, United States
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is seeking a research data analyst (RDA) to contribute to several academic research projects...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Should we be climate adaptation optimists? A nice new paper by Matt Burgess, Matt Kahn, and colleagues argues yes. I'm not so sure. Optimism is not a plan, and we need a plan. Some thoughts: www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/should-...
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Should we be climate adaptation optimists? — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
by: Marshall B , with helpful feedback & additions from Andrew W and Chris C Yes, argues a recent working paper by Matt Burgess, Patrick Brown, Matt Kahn, and Roger Pielke Jr.  The pa...
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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment @woods.stanford.edu · 22/01/2026
For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has factored public health impacts into pollution limits. Now, the equation is changing. Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters. Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...
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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...
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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 20/11/2025
Analysis from @marshallburke.bsky.social and colleagues indicates that while mitigating further global warming can reduce heat mortality, mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures despite current adaptations to heat. 📄 READ HERE: ow.ly/CPRy50XtOnv
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Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 10/10/2025
Analysis from @marshallburke.bsky.social confirms that ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU. 📄 READ THE PAPER: ow.ly/ufQH50X8C2y
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Michael Eddy @michaeleddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I love it when papers have accompanying websites! also, neat when i found out @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social had a small role in supporting this work! 📄 & 💻by @marshallburke.bsky.social & a impressive team! adaptationatlas.org/... www.nber.org/papers/...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Cool and timely paper
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/09/2025
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 19/09/2025
A new study led by @marshallburke.bsky.social estimates that wildfire smoke emissions caused 41,380 excess deaths per year from 2011 to 2020, and rising temperatures could increase U.S. deaths from wildfire smoke more than 70% by 2050. ow.ly/RAp050WYWia
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U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds
Wildfire smoke increasingly threatens lives across the country. A new study shows smoke exposure in the coming decades will cause tens of thousands of excess deaths and predicts where exposure will oc...
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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is startling. The number of deaths every year tied to wildfire smoke now outnumber traffic fatalities, according to @washingtonpost.com coverage of a new @nature.com study from @marshallburke.bsky.social and others.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Important new paper from @marshallburke.bsky.social on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in @nature.com "climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the US under climate change - Nature
Nature - Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the US under climate change
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
An extraordinary new tool from @marshallburke.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow @stanforddoerr.bsky.social, and Andrew Wilson. If you've got the evidence they're looking for, they want to hear from you. 👇
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
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Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We at @stanforddoerr.bsky.social are excited to announce a new PhD program in Global Environmental Policy, accepting applications this fall for Sept 2026 start. We're looking for folks with interest in social sciences, data science, and enviro science and who have strong quant training 1/
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 21/08/2025
Wildfire smoke is spreading pollutants more widely than ever before. @marshallburke.bsky.social spoke with @emilypont.bsky.social of @heatmap.news about what’s driving the increase, and what can be done to prevent and mitigate the risks: ow.ly/5ILx50WIv7w
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Wildfires Have Crashed the East Coast’s Air Quality
Same goes for the Midwest, according to Stanford air quality researcher Marshall Burke.
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 18/08/2025
"Nothing else compares in the U.S." @marshallburke.bsky.social explains exactly why wildfires have made the East Coast's air quality so much worse to @emilypont.bsky.social. Full interview below.
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Wildfires Have Crashed the East Coast’s Air Quality
Same goes for the Midwest, according to Stanford air quality researcher Marshall Burke.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT! tinyurl.com/3enzuubc
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Global Environmental Policy)
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Dana Nuccitelli @dananuccitelli.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):
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The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections
An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 24/07/2025
I am sickened by what we’re seeing in Gaza right now. The IDF has blocked aid while shooting people waiting in food lines for what little aid is actually coming from the sham Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Israel needs to lift its blockade and the U.S. needs to stop sending bombs.
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More than 100 aid groups warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza amid Israel's war with Hamas
A statement released by the 115 aid groups warned of "record rates of acute malnutrition" in the Gaza Strip.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2025
Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Does planting trees reduce the health impacts of extreme heat? As part of a review/meta-analysis we're writing, I think the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is "we don't actually know". Blog and short thread below: www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/does-pl...
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does tree planting improve health — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
Perhaps surprisingly, I don’t think we actually know. By: Marshall Burke
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Plz share + apply! seedfunding.stanford.edu/apply/U5N4
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Evaluation of climate adaptation interventions using observational data | Stanford Seed Funding
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/07/2025
In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys. It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research. In a new article I explain why it should be rescued. ourworldindata.org/demographic-...
Map of countries where the DHS was the only source of maternal mortality data
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits. www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...
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smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized.   By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Nice WaPo article on air quality in National Parks, showing improvements in many parks followed by wildfire-driven reversals. Among the many impacts of wildfires, incl. directly loss of infrastructure as in Grand Canyon fires right now, smoke will make them way less enjoyable.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Wildfire season really picking up (again, for east coast + midwest). NorCal and Canadian fires sending smoke south.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Has anyone had recent luck getting LLMs to *not* hallucinate academic papers? Simple literature search ("Find academic papers conducting RCTs of air conditioning on health outcomes") using GPT4o, Gemini Pro, Claude etc all just completely make up stuff. Anyone have luck?
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This seems, um, important.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/06/2025
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Killing a half million people by continuing to use coal for electricity is bad, imo www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation
From 1999 to 2020, about 530,000 deaths in the Medicare population were attributable to US emissions by coal burning for electricity generation.
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Makoto Kelp @soa-mazing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Our new paper shows how recent prescribed (Rx) burns in the western US impacted later wildfires. We find that Rx fires reduced wildfire severity + net smoke emissions, even when factoring in smoke from Rx fires. But, we find that these Rx fires were less effective in the wildland-urban interface.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Great article on what is being learned about wildfire smoke threats to health: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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America’s Coming Smoke Epidemic
The research on what smoke does to a body is just beginning.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
De-horning rhinos dramatically reduces rhino poaching, for cheap. Other stuff does not. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dehorning reduces rhino poaching
Across 11 southern African reserves protecting the world’s largest rhino population, we documented the poaching of 1985 rhinos (2017–2023, ~6.5% of the population annually) despite approximately USD 7...
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 04/06/2025
In a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, @marshallburke.bsky.social and colleagues outline a new framework for how to better incorporate data about climate-induced wildfire smoke into estimates of the societal and economic costs of climate change.
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Valuing Wildfire Smoke Related Mortality Benefits from Climate Mitigation
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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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 28/05/2025
Introducing acquaint, an R package that turns your R sessions into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows MCP-enabled tools like Claude Desktop and Claude Code to run #rstats code _in your active R sessions_ to explore objects, read documentation, etc. posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Really top notch content from The Crimson here - very well done www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Come At Me, Bro | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or des...
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain  economist.com/science-and-...
website views of PhD programmes up in Netherlands. canada, sweden etc website views from outside the US down massively in the US, up elsewhere
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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Big Beautiful Bill isn’t just targeting Medicaid, it’s an attack on the entire US health care system. $792 billion cut from Medicaid. $490 billion cut from Medicare. $194 billion cut from the ACA. 10 million will lose insurance and the broader damage will touch us all.
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Wherever you fall on the liberal/conservative spectrum, if you believe in checks and balances, you should be outraged at House Republicans who allowed this provision to sneak into the spending bill or didn't speak out against it. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
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A Terrible Idea
Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Medicaid has saved thousands of lives of low-income adults. Repealing Medicaid will likely kill thousands of low-income adults. www.nber.org/papers/w33719
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Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
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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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.
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