Zach Levin
@zachlevin.bsky.social
Economist @ Federal Trade Commission (all opinions my own!) • Passionate about dogs, hospitals, and jorts • 🏳️🌈
www.zacharylevin.me
www.zacharylevin.me
Come work with me! #EconJobMarket
The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)!
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Come work with me! #EconJobMarket
Had a claim denied by Aetna but joke’s on them because I’m a health economist on furlough. Bet they’ve never seen an appeal with a “methods” section before.
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Had a claim denied by Aetna but joke’s on them because I’m a health economist on furlough. Bet they’ve never seen an appeal with a “methods” section before.
Time to see my PCP (primary care pastry)
May 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Time to see my PCP (primary care pastry)
"Forgive me father, for I have put ketchup on a hot dog"
May 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Forgive me father, for I have put ketchup on a hot dog"
A Chicago Pope means we're getting deep dish communion wafers!
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A Chicago Pope means we're getting deep dish communion wafers!
A nice by-product of tariff discourse has been discovering one of my favorite undergrad economics professors is on this site (the incomparably brilliant @kclausing.bsky.social).
April 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A nice by-product of tariff discourse has been discovering one of my favorite undergrad economics professors is on this site (the incomparably brilliant @kclausing.bsky.social).
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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
Hearing a lot about TikTok lately, thinking of finally downloading it and signing up for an account.
January 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hearing a lot about TikTok lately, thinking of finally downloading it and signing up for an account.
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More detailed list of reconciliation policy options here from Punchbowll (h/t @zachlevin.bsky.social)
punchbowl.news/reconciliati...
ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback
punchbowl.news/reconciliati...
ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback
January 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
More detailed list of reconciliation policy options here from Punchbowll (h/t @zachlevin.bsky.social)
punchbowl.news/reconciliati...
ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback
punchbowl.news/reconciliati...
ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback
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🚨new paper alert!!!🚨
My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice!
I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice!
I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
January 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🚨new paper alert!!!🚨
My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice!
I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice!
I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
It was pretty cool to meet the Big Boss, FTC Chair Khan today!
December 17, 2024 at 6:21 PM
It was pretty cool to meet the Big Boss, FTC Chair Khan today!
Belated annual Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake post!
November 29, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Belated annual Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake post!
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Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.
One negative to this app (vs. the old one) is the quasi-LinkedIn vibe. You don’t get the absolutely hilarious, inappropriate, banger thoughts from random people shooting their mouths off about life.
November 26, 2024 at 3:43 PM
One negative to this app (vs. the old one) is the quasi-LinkedIn vibe. You don’t get the absolutely hilarious, inappropriate, banger thoughts from random people shooting their mouths off about life.
As a health economist with 25+ insurance plans available to me during open enrollment, I’m almost disappointed to find myself making no changes this year. But like, why order something else off the menu when you’ve got dinosaur chicken nuggets you’re satisfied with?
November 20, 2024 at 3:37 PM
As a health economist with 25+ insurance plans available to me during open enrollment, I’m almost disappointed to find myself making no changes this year. But like, why order something else off the menu when you’ve got dinosaur chicken nuggets you’re satisfied with?
I hired a research assistant over the weekend! She’s not great at Stata … much prefers aRf!
November 19, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I hired a research assistant over the weekend! She’s not great at Stata … much prefers aRf!
Good as Bluesky may be, it’ll never match MySpace circa 2004.
Pettily adjusting my Top 8, changing the angsty profile song, and coding up a terrible background color. Life was good.
Pettily adjusting my Top 8, changing the angsty profile song, and coding up a terrible background color. Life was good.
November 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Good as Bluesky may be, it’ll never match MySpace circa 2004.
Pettily adjusting my Top 8, changing the angsty profile song, and coding up a terrible background color. Life was good.
Pettily adjusting my Top 8, changing the angsty profile song, and coding up a terrible background color. Life was good.