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Nathan Franz

@nathanfranz.bsky.social
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Econ job market candidate at UT-Austin, working on maternal and child health in India

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💗 Meet the new postdocs at @um-psc.bsky.social! @nathanfranz.bsky.social, @jessiehimmel.bsky.social, and @michaeltopping.bsky.social shared their research projects (summary in the link!) at PSC's kick-off brown bag seminar. @umisr.bsky.social @burgards.bsky.social psc.isr.umich.edu/news/meet-th...
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Meet the Post-Docs: Nathan Franz, Jessie Himmelstern and Michael Topping Join the Population Studies Center
Three new postdoctoral fellows introduced themselves and their research at this fall’s kickoff brown-bag seminar at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC). Here’s a look at their w...
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have no way of knowing how close the labs are to RSI other than what they say, and they say they're close. Everything on the other side of RSI looks Yudkowskian to me. I can't visualize an alternative.
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Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Something I realized today: "All models are wrong, but some are useful" applies in economics, but the usefulness is mainly rhetorical, not in describing reality. Models are engines of persuasion.
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Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The disdain with which some people smack and kick the buttons for automatic doors really bothers me
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Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Two self-driving cab brands at the same intersection. How long before one company starts running adversarial displays to mess with the other's vision model?
Two cars next to each other, driving away. Waymo on the left and a Zoox on the right, turning separate ways at the intersection's green light.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
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Christina Sarah Hauser @christinasarah.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I am delighted to share that my job market paper was featured in the World Bank's Development Impact blog today: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... Summary below. 👇
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Fostering Trust to Save Lives: Evidence from Organ Donation in Tunisia: Guest post by Christina Sarah Hauser
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Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. 

The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.
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Miranda Lambert @mirandainez.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm on the #EconJobMarket!🥳 My research examines how childhood trauma from violence shapes household violence in adulthood. My #EconJMP asks: How do trauma histories interact with their partners' experiences to shape intimate partner violence and violence against children? 🧵
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g0MKAJeczm5NYjduWR-gRAi2phErgDcG/view?usp=drive_link
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 18/09/2025
Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year
Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.
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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Excited that Open Phil is funding this @metaculus.bsky.social forecasting tournament on the future budgets and spending of NIH and NSF, and surprised that forecasters are expecting basically no cuts www.metaculus.com/tournament/...
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Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Applying to NEUDC Feels like they're trying to tell me something
Two choices in a drop down menu:
No, I will not be on the job market in 2025/26
Yes, I will not be on the job market in 2025/26
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Anne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Nathan Franz, PhD student at UT Austin - he’ll be on the market this fall! Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes Website: nathan-franz.github.io
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R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler @rdbressler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🚨New Paper🚨 Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics" My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics
Policies subject to BCA sometimes prevent premature deaths. If survivors would later have children, those policies not only prevent deaths; they cause…
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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso will be published on 8 July. www.amazon.com/After-Spike-...
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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
By the way, for anyone wondering why we have imports on the books from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the answer is that someone logged imports from Honduras incorrectly.
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Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Even if you think that having an overall trade deficit is bad, trying to zero out trade deficits with each country individually doesn't make sense. A quick example:
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Pakistan: 29% Sri Lanka 44% Bangladesh 37% China 34% Vietnam 46% India 26% Thailand 36% Indonesia 32% Cambodia 49% South Africa 30%
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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Eeshani Kandpal @eeshani.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A timely, important, and wonderfully written piece on the Demographic and Health Surveys by Caren Grown. So much learning stands on the shoulders of the DHS. Donors must step up and step in— and soon— especially to rescue the 18 surveys currently in the field. www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...
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An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program
Caren Grown reflects on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and its 40-plus years of impact.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Haven't tried it yet but www.aid-archive.org
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Aid Archive
Preserving information and resources for development and humanitarian aid
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 12/02/2025
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
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The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
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