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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 11/07/2026

🚨NEW PUBLICATION "The Influence of Interindividual Factors on Army Combat Fitness Test Performance" is now out in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise! (1/7) #Army #Health #Military #Research #Fitness

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 20/06/2026

Had an incredible week at the 7th International Congress on Soldiers' Physical Performance (ICSPP) in Paris 🇫🇷 It was a privilege to connect with international Warfighter health and performance experts and give two presentations

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 18/05/2026

I was honored to serve as one of the keynote speakers at this year's Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) Symposium hosted by the US Army. I had the opportunity to present on the Return on Investment, sharing data on how H2F is improving Soldier health, performance, and readiness.

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 08/08/2025

Had a great time at #MHSRS with my colleagues at USARIEM presenting research on the impact of the Army's H2F program on metabolic health and interacting with so many researchers and practitioners. Looking forward to building on this work evaluating H2F's impact on the Army

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 04/08/2025

I'll be at the Military Health System Research Symposium (#MHSRS) this week presenting on how the Army's Health and Holistic Fitness Program (H2F) has helped improve Soldiers' metabolic health and how health economics can be used to evaluate Solider health and performance.

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 30/05/2025

Very honored to have been selected as one of Old Dominion University's top 40 under 40. I completed a BA in Economics with a minor in Applied Math in 2010, MBA in 2013 and a MA in Economics in 2013. I can't be more grateful for my time at ODU and the preparation it gave me for a PhD and my career

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 29/04/2025

Not the GOAT of movies, but Apocolypto is a damned good movie and is vastly underappreciated

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 03/04/2025

This really gets at so many problems right now

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 31/03/2025

This is great news for hoops fans. Zach Lowe is back!

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 22/03/2025

Holding strong after round 1

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 27/02/2025

RIP to Gene Hackman, one of the greats. My favorite movies of his are Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Behind Enemy Lines, and Hoosiers

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 31/01/2025

A very interesting article from @axios.com based on a working paper from Clara Chambers, Benjamin Goldman, and Joseph Winkelmann. Axios Article: www.axios.com/2025/01/31/m... WP: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 25/01/2025

This also reminds me of this YouGov poll: (2/2)

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 25/01/2025

As a society, how do we deal with this type of information gap if the reality some people are living in isn't the truth? The true information is easily available from a quick Google search, yet we continue to survey after survey where there are results like this. (1/2)

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 12/01/2025

2009 LeBron dropping an easy 44 on Kevin Durant and the Thunder. LeBron being as good as he is at 40 makes you forget how fast and athletic he was in his prime. There's a whole generation of hoop fans who never saw this version of him 👇🏼

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 21/11/2024

Two useful charts for the conversation on government efficiency and employees: 1) The number of federal employees has remained relatively unchanged since 1970 2) The percent of the total workforce that are federal employees has been declining since 1960 #DOGE #Government #Jobs

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 11/11/2024

Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all who have served 🇺🇸

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 19/10/2024

Obviously this is not an easy task, but if AI is going to be a tool that students have as a resource in their careers, it's best to teach them how to use it and integrate it into their work, just like we do with Excel and statistical programs. (1/2) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 12/07/2024

There is a coming demographic cliff in higher education as the number of college aged students will decline after 2025. This will have large implications on higher education, especially for colleges that have not prepared. This will also impact Social Security and Medicare.

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 13/06/2024

When they say the game starts at 8:30, tip of should be at 8:30, not 8:45 or 9:00

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 08/02/2024

🚨Career/Life Update: I have accepted a new position to manage and lead the Data and Decision Science Program at the US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) in Natick, Massachusetts. This is an academic research position where I will lead a team that uses the (1/4)

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 29/01/2024

A few months ago I wrote a post diving into the data behind the gender wage gap: timmurrayecon.substack.com/p/what-do-we...

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 10/01/2024

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. The past that people often think fondly of, never actually happened.

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 21/11/2023

Had a great time at #SEA2023 seeing lots of awesome research and getting some great feedback on mine. Lots of great and important work going on in economics!

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 17/11/2023

If you're headed to the SEA Conference this weekend, feel free to stop by on Monday as I'll be presenting on how of pension plan type (DB vs DC) may have impacted retirees willingness to extract housing equity during and after the Great Recession. #SEA2023

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 16/11/2023

I want to say congratulations to my student Collin Ironside for presenting his Departmental Honors Research yesterday. He scraped data on politician's stock transactions and created an index to see if it outperformed the S&P 500 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Awesome work!!

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 11/11/2023

Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all who have served 🫡🇺🇲

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Tim Murray @timmurrayecon.com · 19/10/2023

This year, Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics as a pioneer in studying gender in the labor market. I wrote an article diving into the data for wages to explore what we know about the Gender Wage Gap in 2023. open.substack.com/pub/timmurra...

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