John de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @deNew_John@qoto.org

For those among us who know enough about the way Medicare pays for health care to be dangerous but not much more, MedPAC's annual Payment Basics reports are a treasure.
https://www.medpac.gov/document-type/payment-basic/

I went to a Ukrainian book fair in Noble Park:

* greeted a bookseller,

* asked if they had Ukrainian classics, esp. Executed Renaissance,

* gave my email for additional info,

* asked about the price of the book I liked & if they accept card payments,

* expressed sadness by the fact that they did not, and told I had no cash,

* thanked him for his solution: I take the book and follow the emailed instructions,

* said goodbye

And -- all this in Ukrainian! Not much but I am proud anyway!

In case you have ever wondered which quantile model fits your research question best, Nicolai Borgen, Øvind Wiborg and I have some answers:

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac052/6815678

We give you some very non-technical discussions (some equations too if you like) about the different estimands we can care about in our theories and how they fit to recent quantile models.

(So, don't use the wrong type of quantile model for you research any more - if you did so...)

Hostess released a cryptocurrency themed Twinkie this summer, apparently: https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/Hostess-crypto-twinkie-twinkcoin-17338390.php

I’m just a Gen Xer playing computer games in my basement. 🤟 I can’t believe this really worked. They really don’t build them like the used to. “Does it boot?” Yes, yes it does!

Twitter users right now

The delevoper of BirdsiteLIVE has ended his project because of the huge inflow from Twitter https://write.as/nicolas-constant/closing-the-official-bsl-instance

#Introduction (I'm new to this site)

I'm a Senior Research Fellow @IFPRI, where I've been for 27 years. I work on gender & intrahh issues, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, poverty & economic mobility.

I'm from the Philippines and growing up there has shaped my views on things A LOT. Like the need to decolonize development research.

I'm one of many co-editors of Food Policy.

I'm also crazy about turtles.

@deNew_John this is awfully nice, thanks!

#introduction

I am a health economist who uses #econometrics for my research on health #inequalities. I am professor of economics at the University of York. I use social media mostly to provide information on our research at the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), my workshops on DataViz and policy evaluation, and the annual European Workshops on Econometrics and Health Economics and their Asian, Australasian and North American counterparts