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Economist, professor at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.

Boston, MA
Joined December 2008
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights (@AEAjournals) w/ @talgross & @timothyjlayton. Use timing variation in social security receipt & show prescription drug purchases are sensitive to short-term liquidity. Julia Yates, joining UMich for her PhD, made a massive contribution to this work.
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Liquidity Sensitivity of Healthcare Consumption: Evidence from Social Security Payments" by Tal Gross, Timothy J. Layton, and Daniel Prinz. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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Why is his line so short? He's been in office 216 days. Interesting comparison! 🙂
Interestingly, Churchill wrote this at time of Maximum Peril. Not at all clear UK would win the war in August 1940. teapawt.net/andyheeps/status/82060…
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Results of randomized controlled trial at West Point suggests laptop use in class causes worse exam scores sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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@talgross Classic paper: http://bit.ly/kqRSHa
Everybody loved Hosni: 30 years of photo-ops the west would rather forget: http://bit.ly/fYQ0JD
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Added several new resources to my #egypt collection (including feeds on the ground): http://bit.ly/egyptsoc - add yr own #jan25
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was hoping Bruce Schneier would pen the definitive piece on why the TSA's approach is pointless. he didn't disappoint: http://nyti.ms/h1H0vO
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Primary care access improvement doesn't result in better patient outcomes per Dartmouth Atlas study http://goo.gl/Ugus
Miami's complexity & diversity make it the next great global city - Saskia Sassen in Foreign Policy - http://tinyurl.com/35pchnh
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Terrific analysis of WikiLeaks release by Amy Davidson of New Yorker: Should we be in Afghan at all? http://is.gd/dJWZK
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“An economist is a man with an irrational passion for dispassionate rationality.”
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Tal Gross retweeted
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” —Frank Sinatra
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