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Back in 2022, a figure on HRT prescribing caught my eye in a Guardian article on the "Davina Effect". Fast-forward a few years, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Rhys Llewellyn Thomas, and I have a paper out: brendonmcconnell.github.io/pdf/HRT.pdf Short 🧵

there was some epic, early morning light this past weekend. the light hitting the mist created a "mistbow", which I'd never seen before. some snaps from my morning walk with the pups yesterday.

this has a good overview of the recent Fiscal Studies symposium to which @papiteide.bsky.social and I contributed. Our paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/..., more on the symposium here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755890...

Fiscal Studies | IFS Public Economics Journal | Wiley Online LibraryBasic methods to compute required sample sizes are well understood and supported by widely available software. However, researchers often oversimplify their sample size calculations, overlooking rele...onlinelibrary.wiley.com

nice little thread of our recent work highlighting the crime-reducing benefit of combining hotspot policing methods with spatial network models

First draft of a new paper out today [link: brendonmcconnell.github.io/pdf/plasma.p..., where we document the impact of plasma donation centers on crime in US cities. We find large and sustained effects of these centers on crime, notably property crime and drugs possession. Short thread below..

first draft out today: how to use the spatial network structure of crime in a city to improve upon the standard hot spot policing approach, joint with @corrradogiulietti.bsky.social and Yves Zenou. [1/3]

After a long time of battling with Stata, I finally figured out how to change the aspect on a cmogram graph (I wanted a square format). Sharing in case useful. The line after the cmogram command, I typed "graph display, xsize(1) ysize (1)". Before/After pic attached.