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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 3h

A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · 1d

Care is not distributed equally...
💡 Research in Nature Aging

1 in 5 older adults with dementia receives no care for daily needs.
In China, nearly 100% lack formal care.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/s435...

#NatureAging #Dementia #EconSky #HealthInequity #LTC

Absence of care among community-dwelling older adults with dementia and functional limitations - Nature Aging

Using data from the United States, England, Europe, Israel and China, Lin, Qian et al. identify that at least one-fifth of persons with dementia and functional limitations received no care for daily a...

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · 1d

💡 New research in JHE!

🕰️ Becoming a main carer cuts 9.6 hours off the workweek.
💑 If you're caring for a partner? That's 22.5 hours gone.

🚺 Late career women are hit hardest: often pushed out of work after health shocks.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

#EconSky #InformalCare #Women

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · 3d

TLDR can be found here: vu.nl/en/news/2025...

Losing a partner increases the likelihood of nursing home care - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

When older adults lose their partner, their likelihood of being admitted to a nursing home rises sharply—especially in the first few months after the loss.

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · 3d

My paper has been published open access, find it here! We apply the Callaway St'Anna estimator to estimate the impact of partner loss on the immediate need for long-term care using not-yet-treated as controls. #econsky #econometrics #healthecon #LTC

Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · 3d

When a spouse dies, the surviving partner’s need for institutional long-term care spikes—by 1.5 percentage point within 3 months, then fades by 10.

Early post-bereavement support is key to sustaining “aging-in-place.”

Read our new paper: tinyurl.com/zpubkxhu

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Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · 3d

When a spouse dies, the surviving partner’s need for institutional long-term care spikes—by 1.5 percentage point within 3 months, then fades by 10.

Early post-bereavement support is key to sustaining “aging-in-place.”

Read our new paper: tinyurl.com/zpubkxhu

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Apr 8

Afterthought: does that say more about me or about GPT’s capabilities? #phdlife

Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Apr 8

Making four latex tables into one very big longtable and Claude ai is saving me so much time 💕
Why not gpt? Well, their context window is not big enough for my data🤭
#ai #llm #academia

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Apr 2

Signed up for the IBPPC in London yesterday as a presenter! #conference #BehaviouralPublicPolicy Stay tuned for the details…

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Mar 31

Redoing my data cleaning for the billionth time because overseeing consequences of filters on 240 variables and ≈ 2.7 million rows is apparently very complex for my brain… Who would have thought? #datascience #phdlife

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Feb 10

This thread reminded me to check my new shiny to do app just in time for sundown 😌

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Xander Koolman NL @xanderkoolman.bsky.social · Feb 5

Ons onderzoek gaat over de werking van het stelsel en daarmee over instituties (verboden), met name barrières (verboden) voor doelmatiger zorg, en we willen causale relaties schatten die unbiased (verboden) zijn, etc.

Als wij ons werk deden in de VS dan koden we nu de tent wel sluiten.

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Jan 20

New week of more grey, gloomy Dutch weather #BlueMonday #Dutchlife

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Jan 14

Working from home because the landlord is installing a new dishwasher. The cats are thrilled #wfh #cats #phdlife

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Jan 13

I finally got my react-expo website working properly with a high SEO score! #reactdev #girlswhocode #seo #webdesign

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Jan 2

Ik kwam dit tegen als advertentie op Instagram vandaag. Het lijkt erop dat we als Nederland niet alleen zijn in het zorgpersoneel tekort. Het lijkt bijna een wedstrijd te worden… #zorg #personeelstekort

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · Dec 17

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Dec 14

Coding the outcomes of the ongoing literature review gives some weird insights… did you know you can categorize death rates as ‘functional decline’? 🫢
#econsky #phdchat

Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Dec 5

Watching a nice Youtube video that quite well explains the research that lead to the Nobel Prize in Economics 2024 🤓

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P60T...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics: Explained

YouTube video by Economics Explained

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Dec 3

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Nov 29

My data is easier and more reliably to match than expected! #econsky #phdchat

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Nov 29

Spending the morning watching my bengal watching birds while waiting for my dataset to load in #cat #inception #phdchat

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ah het is op het nieuws! Ze gaan de social media bedrijven beboeten als ze t niet controleren 🧐
Lijkt me ook ingewikkeld

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ik vraag me echt af hoe die handhaving hiervan eruit gaat zien… Ouders boetes geven als de kinderen toch stiekem een Instagram account hebben aangemaakt? 🤭

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Chantal Schouwenaar @chantalschouwenaar.bsky.social · Nov 27

Win of today: correctly reproduced intermediate results using code I wrote months ago #phdlife

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