Hey, #epitwitter, I’m giving a talk to a group of economists.
What would you like economists to know about COVID that you feel they’ve got wrong?
What questions about COVID do you wish economists would help us answer?
What’s your fav example of econ/epi COVID collaboration?
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@GidMK, @AbbyCScience,@Theresa_Chapple,@jfeldman_epi,@NoahHaber have interesting thoughts on this topic that I would love to hear.7 replies 0 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
Good question! I'd have to ask first: what flavor of economists? There are weird schisms, and my answer might change drastically depending (particularly for the macro/monetary set).
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One of the things that I really wish I would see more of that would require a HUGE econ/epi collabo is more RAND/CBO-style modelling to play out some of the policy scenarios and really explore the space in a much more comprehensive and systematic fashion.
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Can't be understated how massive of an operation those things are to do, and it would really require mashing a whole lot of heads together to get a functional engine with even a minimal amount of ID mechanics, behavior, and money/job flows to model, say, a vaccine roll out.
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Warning: AM EXTREMELY BIASED HERE. I'd also like to see a lot more collabo on impact evaluation methods in general; by a LONG shot the best COVID impact eval papers I've seen mash together QE methods w/ epi mechanistic models. The worst are often solo projects.
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Two mistakes I keep seeing economists make about epis as a group is the assumption that they/we only care about getting COVID to 0 at all costs, and/or that it is effectively impossible to get to "under control" conditions except by vaccine.
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Yes that's a good one, the idea that epidemiology doesn't include things like social determinants and secondary harms has been a consistent mistake I think, especially given the epi/health economist crossover
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