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Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 13, 2026: good tweets

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:51:35 GMT

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

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^link. Josh Gans reflections thread

^…

^SWREAM (sticky wages rule everything around me)

^this is why AI is so jaggedly bad at business cycle macro especially

PISA scores

I’m not going to be able to adjudicate this one, but, claims:

^continues

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 13, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:51:33 GMT

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 6, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:22:38 GMT

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^file under blog posts that could be papers

^uh

^google trends data is basically fake: a continuing series

^what an opener

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 6, 2026: good tweets

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:22:37 GMT

ICYMI: Nobel special edition

Good tweets

^thread, claims

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Best of #econtwitter - Nobel 2026 special edition

An Economist — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:28:33 GMT

Throwback: 2025 Nobel special edition; 2024 Nobel special edition; 2023 Nobel special edition; 2022 Nobel special edition; 2021 Nobel special edition; and 2020 Nobel special edition

The prize & laureates

Threads / blog posts

^link

^link. “First, every Bob Hall paper is interesting! Only a handful of economists can say the same. Every paper has an idea”

^link

^thread!

^link

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^“Managing Your Career as an Economist after Tenure”, how about after a Nobel

^wife & husband paper!

Memes, jokes

Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 30, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:27:56 GMT

Nobel special edition coming later this week…

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^sleep! is! good!

^what. is this legit? sticky wages? some discussion

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#AMLEDS begins with Allan Timmermann (@UCSanDiego) on\n\n🎙️ “Gauging Hourly Economic Activity in Your Neighborhood”\n\n🕚 11am EDT · 5pm CEST\n\n#EconTwitter #BigData ","username":"JuriMarcucci","name":"Juri Marcucci","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1288472624696307713/adS2L96l_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-27T16:03:11.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HQvWlnCXYAAXwf0.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/nbzMzdbgjW"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":4,"like_count":7,"impression_count":556,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 30, 2026: good tweets

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:27:56 GMT

Nobel special edition coming later this week…

Good tweets

^🤯

@willmacaskill, @SamuelAlbanie, @tomcohen for taking the other side of this bet at 4:1 odds and to @andrewho03 for joining on my side.\n\nHere are the final terms we agreed on benjaminmoll.com/growth_bet/\n\nMore (within) ~7 years from now 😃","username":"ben_moll","name":"Ben Moll","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1176396969696276481/GVAduvUU_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-27T10:19:18.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HQuJZvrXsAAn05l.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/8Ta8sjm9jB"}],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"Would anyone like to take the other side of the following bet? I bet you (say) $25k inflation-adjusted that U.S. per capita real GDP growth will be <15% per annum in 2033 or any year before that. (15% implies a doubling time of ~5 years.)\n\nNote: I'm extremely bullish on AI and...","username":"ben_moll","name":"Ben Moll","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1176396969696276481/GVAduvUU_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":24,"retweet_count":48,"like_count":433,"impression_count":232835,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^perhaps obvious but this is why being a researcher is so destabilizing… you better know just how much you don’t know

^requesting a 3k word thinkpiece on this

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^this is not possibly correct is it

Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 23, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:22:23 GMT

“How is economics changing” FT article

^inclusions are not endorsements as always… (“trivial”?!)

Good tweets

^“starting fights” is an underrated strategy to increase research productivity

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@claudeai to organize all the Chicago price theory problems @irwincollier has collected from the archives. Access the database here: bryancutsinger.com/teaching/price…\n\nSuggestions welcome.","username":"BryanPCutsinger","name":"Bryan Cutsinger","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2029010164402044928/8Kzh7j0D_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-18T02:33:14.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"Economics in the Rear-view Mirror has crossed the 2000th artifact threshold. Presenting the Univ of Chicago’s economic theory prelim from the Winter quarter of 1953.\n https://t.co/R20A8MbZQO","username":"irwincollier","name":"Irwin Collier","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/598943627608457216/g0D2Re1T_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":14,"like_count":27,"impression_count":5534,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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@jburnmurdoch ","username":"StefanFSchubert","name":"Stefan Schubert","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1765862195806507008/vg0DSSyX_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-21T07:27:40.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HQOqtn6WwAAd4El.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/wjej2Q5V6R"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":15,"retweet_count":77,"like_count":352,"impression_count":49932,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@paulnovosad For me this chart is the more interesting one:\n\nDominant story for low-edu men is huge hit from decline of manufacturing. Dominant story for low-edu women is healthcare jobs. I don’t think either of those are zero-sum (not convinced men were ever competing for those jobs). ","username":"jburnmurdoch","name":"John Burn-Murdoch","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/922511756110557184/IDxUQ_rr_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-21T14:15:46.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HQQHP3FXgAAcVll.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/0tGurdJj3S"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":10,"like_count":40,"impression_count":20923,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 23, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:20:15 GMT

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@AEAjournals , Alex Trew, Bruno Caprettini and I examine this question for the case of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Shocks were both massive and long-lasting -- more than 10% ","username":"joachim_voth","name":"Joachim Voth","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1432740279589744640/NP1b0Qfl_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-19T14:39:32.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HQF3noTXMAARBeF.png","link_url":"https://t.co/P5oBm0MwWQ"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":58,"like_count":211,"impression_count":36973,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^can someone pls do this for econ phd programs 🤓

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 16, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:35:40 GMT

Good tweets

^(this is clearly correct but) “very little info to compute” besides, in the US, the 3000 souls and billion dollars that make up the 😍national statistical agencies😍

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^facts I probably should have been aware of, episode 1210. This graph has rewired my brain!

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 16, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:35:40 GMT

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nber.org/papers/w35580. \n\nStarted more than 8 years ago as two separate projects by two teams on each side of the Atlantic that shared the same…","username":"PDenderski","name":"Piotr Denderski","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1363540999142838274/BZlfic1y_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-10T11:32:46.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":11,"like_count":32,"impression_count":4162,"expanded_url":{"url":"https://www.nber.org/papers/w35580","title":"Cautious Careers: Job Mobility under Incomplete Markets","description":"Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.","domain":"nber.org","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2086777818596212736/UvR6uUtc?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

#SustainableED team's first publication is out in @PNASNews.\n\nWe document the scale of potential pollutant & carcinogen exposure across US K12 schools.\n\n8% of all schools are within a few blocks of EPA registered hazard sites.\n\nExposure risk is highly inequitable.\n\n🧵 ","username":"MatthewAKraft","name":"Matthew A. Kraft","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1016113797470121984/awGP59Fc_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-11T16:51:30.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HPdHWIuWMAA5Pb3.png","link_url":"https://t.co/CL1EliECl8"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":10,"like_count":20,"impression_count":1131,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@PDenderski @alexclymo @ayusufmercan\n\nIdea:\n1) Switching jobs is risky.\n2) We are risk-averse.\n3) Insurance markets are incomplete.\n\n=>Workers avoid risky jobs\n=>Lower wage growth & productivity\n=>UI can help","username":"Schoefer_B","name":"Benjamin Schoefer","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1258526725719257088/VhRzkk3E_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-13T19:35:39.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"What holds back job-to-job mobility and productivity growth? The role of risk aversion and incomplete markets, and a new, pro-growth role for unemployment insurance, from Alex Clymo, Piotr Denderski, @ayusufmercan, and @Schoefer_B https://t.co/PVj3fvgGdU","username":"nberpubs","name":"NBER","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/532652076543668224/usWf3i6V_normal.jpeg"},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":12,"like_count":61,"impression_count":6913,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 9, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:46:21 GMT

Good tweets

^direct link. maybe

^phone for Weitzman 1974

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^context here perhaps?

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 9, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:45:41 GMT

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^what do we think chat

@eric_schnell\n\nHow do we achieve global cooperation on climate or conflict reduction? The problem isn't selfishness as much as it is cooperation itself - at a smaller ","username":"mmuthukrishna","name":"Michael Muthukrishna","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1723690943289712640/xhmZZIjN_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-29T17:00:43.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOaRTwXWkAA2c9W.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/ZPeGjO784e"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":17,"like_count":56,"impression_count":13580,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@OlafWillner \n\nReminder: Project APE is an experiment in building a system that learns how to do policy evaluation autonomously. The potential upside is that we could then …","username":"YanagizawaD","name":"D. Yanagizawa-Drott","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2078660804074000384/cSg562UL_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:08:34.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNwsZIKbkAAoQlX.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/iecGIV1D1l"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":7,"retweet_count":32,"like_count":119,"impression_count":26667,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@AnthropicAI 's AEI data to offer the first landscape assessment of how Americans are using AI …","username":"ahall_research","name":"Andy Hall","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1940818025537482752/eMsuRJq3_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-04T14:44:07.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HO4riX8aMAEAL2U.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/OHbHxO01y1"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":10,"retweet_count":51,"like_count":211,"impression_count":80863,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 2, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:12:16 GMT

Good tweets

^incredible that the best answer we have to this [important!] question is “two Matt Clancy tweets from 2026 and 2024”

@mattsclancy the combination of \"what is the right end date\" + \"is it long-term growth or short-term fluctuations\" might be important, what do you think here? --\n\nif one uses the second industrial revolution rather than 1652: ","username":"BasilHalperin","name":"Basil Halperin","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1905332522260856832/rdYkmXc9_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-30T17:42:53.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOfkiyyWYAAI3FN.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/XHzr90woaX"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":1,"impression_count":210,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@mattsclancy and here's the distribution for *TFP* for England, from Bouscasse-Nakamura-Steinsson [all via Claude]\n- note is trend TFP growth + is decadal data ","username":"BasilHalperin","name":"Basil Halperin","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1905332522260856832/rdYkmXc9_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-30T17:45:21.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOflD2ZWIAAfwS1.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/NUluJaxwLB"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":1,"impression_count":144,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^hopium

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ft.com/content/0ed87a… ","username":"SoumayaKeynes","name":"Soumaya Keynes","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2019147931140374528/OC6bE2f2_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-30T07:33:36.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOdZEqjX0AAnhST.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/6xxsJauyfV"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":5,"like_count":12,"impression_count":3860,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 2, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:11:57 GMT

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@pangram, we studied self-published genre fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026 March\n\nTurns out Amazon is flooded with books ","username":"TuhinChakr","name":"Tuhin Chakrabarty","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1873976918954967040/RGxTU65o_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-28T15:20:53.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f4Bh!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2082106328621740032.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/pEWtdiJlPg"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":19,"retweet_count":136,"like_count":469,"impression_count":120122,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2082106328621740032/vid/avc1/1268x720/n-nBNlwATEG0JSAN.mp4","video_preview_media_key":"13_2082106328621740032","belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^dynamic version of this from Zach Mazlish

^incredible. Are cumulated event studies basically fake? I’m going to say it, honestly I think cumulated event studies are basically fake, sorry!

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#NBERSI2026.\n\nThe paper has generated lots of 🔥takes. I think it provides a window into the value & challenges of social science research.\nnber.org/papers/w35132 ","username":"MatthewAKraft","name":"Matthew A. Kraft","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1016113797470121984/awGP59Fc_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-30T13:42:37.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOes_MtWIAAnkT9.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/zl1wvy3Hzm"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":13,"impression_count":782,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 26, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:53:35 GMT

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@stripe Economics piece today about the recent firming of US productivity growth & AI's potential role in it.\nTLDR: we're likely in a high-productivity period today, but the main driver *so far* is firms running their existing capital hotter, not microproductivity gains. /1 ","username":"ernietedeschi","name":"Ernie Tedeschi","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1481433697182261248/rhqOzq7z_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T14:12:06.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN6mBq4W4AAB0Ht.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/x5MEweDbHO"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":10,"retweet_count":69,"like_count":318,"impression_count":113382,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^Waymo response

@MinneapolisFed shows, the homeownership rate on a per capita basis (owners / people) is lower than on a household basis (households / people)—because many young people haven't even started their own households; they're living with parents/friends. What's going on? 🧵 ... ","username":"AzizSunderji","name":"Aziz Sunderji","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1668329725339500544/qOTdZlE8_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:02:18.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNwrTzJXgAA_-gO.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/imcnWTyeFg"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":12,"like_count":47,"impression_count":4271,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^excellent

^back-and-forth continues

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cbpp.org/research/food-… ","username":"Katie_Bergh","name":"Katie Bergh","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1650590374933438470/1Vib79Ay_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:23:56.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNw40MTXoAA8joG.png","link_url":"https://t.co/tpbeJuITpy","alt_text":"Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million."}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":59,"retweet_count":204,"like_count":335,"impression_count":212761,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^what’s going on with the Hollywood economy the last few years

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 26, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:47:54 GMT

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arxiv.org/abs/2607.21534 ","username":"MishaTeplitskiy","name":"Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2070950787354599424/9kxSVR50_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-24T15:47:39.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOAQo4VWYAA3m9l.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/PNuZX35DTZ"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":5,"impression_count":548,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@instrumenthull, @_evan_munro and I have new toys for you 🧵\n\nOur new paper, \"Robust Signal Maximization in Spillover Experiments\", proposes an experimental design with large and robust power gains\n\narxiv.org/abs/2607.18601 ","username":"borusyak","name":"Kirill Borusyak","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1448948649329893382/CpDnRTzd_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-22T13:33:31.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN1epaBW0AA3ktT.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/bnadiowKt2"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":40,"like_count":146,"impression_count":24210,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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@SimonFuchs4 and @WoanFoongWong in a new paper we presented last week at the International Trade and Investment (ITI) program of the @nberpubs's Summer Institute.\n\nWe develop a theory to ","username":"LeiboviciF","name":"Fernando Leibovici","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2074483286043234305/8cUa0jxU_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:37:45.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNw_QsLWwAAggKb.png","link_url":"https://t.co/B9kkO8c122"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":9,"like_count":31,"impression_count":2386,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@ZoutmanFloris from @NHHnor\n🔗ssrn.com/abstract=71254… https://t.co/DxAjCdj1VL","username":"socampdi","name":"Sergio Ocampo Díaz","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1575590150742089729/pu5f9Skr_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-22T11:29:35.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":13,"like_count":34,"impression_count":5169,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

#econtwitter ","username":"ani_econ","name":"Aniruddha Ghosh","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1935077956881387520/zn1_pigS_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T02:49:59.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":4,"like_count":16,"impression_count":1575,"expanded_url":{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00531","title":"On Continuity of Separately Convex Preferences and Correspondences","description":"We study separate convexity for preferences and correspondences, and show that this weakening of the usual convexity postulate is strong enough to recover standard equivalences among continuity...","domain":"arxiv.org","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2080123230321524736/42krQht8?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…\n\nMain result: Firms that borrow against existing assets early in life all end up in the same place, while firms that borrow earlier against future cash flows outperform","username":"m_aragoneses","name":"Martin Aragoneses","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1773100019349872641/jaaTsA6b_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T12:22:21.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN6YDUtWoAAtSix.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/kMrKT80OPg"}],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21767 \nThe Nature of Firm Financing and Growth\nMartin Aragoneses @m_aragoneses @INSEAD, Chris Hansman @EmoryEconomics, David Licher, Ramana Nanda @imperialcollege\nhttps://t.co/51Kxi4y5CK\n#CEPR_MG #CEPR_BCF #EconTwitter","username":"cepr_org","name":"CEPR","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1281560719356567554/tURAm0lZ_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":13,"like_count":63,"impression_count":8895,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@Google & @GoogleDeepMind and covers how our AI is being used at scale. \n\nThe data set has 15 million de-identified interactions across a large ","username":"alexolegimas","name":"Alex Imas","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1994816403359010817/0zMDGpbF_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T15:58:03.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN7JEqeWgAAu4pI.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/fCoXbdA0le"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":12,"retweet_count":70,"like_count":273,"impression_count":48512,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/ ","username":"meddly","name":"Dan Ly","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1246793070814863360/5EgMem7r_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-20T15:24:57.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNrjF0mXcAIxJG4.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/NSnwVe41Lp"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":5,"like_count":14,"impression_count":5043,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 19, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:59:53 GMT

Good tweets

^amazing. Begging for more of these

^will wait to see this in publications before believing it 😶…

Public goods

@devdatalab) developed our own and made them open for research.\n\nWe were kind of shocked this didn’t exist already. A thread 1/ ","username":"paulnovosad","name":"Paul Novosad","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1404388273359831042/7FWLaDSK_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-15T12:38:28.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNM1-pCX0AAaE6X.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/cN9Hp3asbF"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":14,"retweet_count":117,"like_count":610,"impression_count":68267,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Charts

@stripe Economics research with @llamamrama, following up on our prior solopreneur work. Here we focus on the UK. We find evidence that official public data on UK business formations may be *understating* recent acceleration. /1 ","username":"ernietedeschi","name":"Ernie Tedeschi","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1481433697182261248/rhqOzq7z_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-13T15:55:02.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHnw8tXMAADyqY.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/1sK5rdKE45"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHn3ORX0AEgJU8.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/1sK5rdKE45"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":4,"like_count":21,"impression_count":5661,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@jburnmurdoch ","username":"StefanFSchubert","name":"Stefan Schubert","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1765862195806507008/vg0DSSyX_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-18T19:19:23.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNiHjuNWcAAjacA.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/G2Bo7wwlUs"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":17,"like_count":95,"impression_count":7679,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 19, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:59:48 GMT

Absurdly high quantity of high-quality papers this week…

The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement

^it’s the summer of ```RSI’’’ in San Francisco…

More threads on the same paper:

More, more, more

Idiosyncratic favorites

@ProfSultanEcon and @gochristoph.\n\nIn line with wemustactnow.ai -- we provide early empirical evidence on the impacts of transformative generative AI. ","username":"ellliottt","name":"Elliott Ash","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1709231528402726913/XSl1v_h6_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-16T14:33:58.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNSK0VNW0AAByRK.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/b1AqdplH0X"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":47,"like_count":163,"impression_count":67058,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^…what. Another thread

^“random assignment of divorces to judges”

More paper summaries

cepr.org/publications/d… ","username":"SoumayaKeynes","name":"Soumaya Keynes","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2019147931140374528/OC6bE2f2_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-13T15:32:03.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHjlHAXcAEFG8e.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/d56BE4PNGo"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHjlGOXIAA2Msf.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/d56BE4PNGo"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":17,"like_count":149,"impression_count":16233,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@nberpubs paper w/ @PawelAdrjan, @BalgovaMaria, @jonasjessen & @JSockin: Workers infer unlisted job characteristics from what ads do list. Using a priced amenity—the 🇩🇪Deutschlandticket—we show this contaminates discrete choice estimates of WTP for amenities. 1/N","username":"simon_jaeger","name":"Simon Jäger","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1424721268985712650/9DRMM6Gu_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-18T14:44:23.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"Job ads can signal hidden job traits. Evidence from German workers shows this distorts discrete choice estimates of workers’ willingness to pay, from Pawel Adrjan, Mária Balgova, @simon_jaeger, Jonas Jessen, and @JSockin https://t.co/NX0GP3sZhp","username":"nberpubs","name":"NBER","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/532652076543668224/usWf3i6V_normal.jpeg"},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":10,"like_count":33,"impression_count":6534,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@amitbasole and Pratyush Priyadarshi. Link at the end.\n\nIndia's labour surveys sort households into strata before sampling. This can make estimates more precise, as compared to simple random sampling, but does it work? 🧵 ","username":"econanand","name":"Anand Shrivastava","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1899396215122653184/TW8yqCwo_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-19T09:54:20.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNlN_RaacAAsIcD.png","link_url":"https://t.co/O6ZCYjyfhC"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":5,"like_count":22,"impression_count":891,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 12, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:36:41 GMT

Good tweets

^is there work on this?

@JonSteinsson The economists who still think money is important tend to prefer Divisia measures. And these didn't move much in and after the crisis.\nI'm not denying those op eds existed of course. But the lack of inflation post crisis doesn't kill the case for the importance of money. ","username":"t_holden","name":"Tom Holden","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1283681420343422976/ZVtBGGdS_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-12T06:20:57.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNAb2pHXsAA58EK.png","link_url":"https://t.co/v9LLDPwChh"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":16,"impression_count":981,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@t_holden @JonSteinsson inspired by @C_Harwick (econlib.org/new-inflation-…)\n\n(haven't sold myself on Divisia yet but it's intriguing) ","username":"BasilHalperin","name":"Basil Halperin","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1905332522260856832/rdYkmXc9_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-13T01:25:42.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNEgm6abgAAz3X7.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/Q1e40On8pb"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":6,"like_count":32,"impression_count":5386,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^👁️o👁️

Public goods

@IFP has hosted the Economics of Ideas, Science and Innovation online PhD course. It includes lectures from luminaries of innovation economics like @ChadJonesEcon, @KRoyMyers, @inaganguli, @pierre_azoulay, @Afinetheorem, and others.\n\nUntil now, the only way to see ","username":"andrewmgerard","name":"Andrew Gerard","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2009634300497453057/xjqEdHHT_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-10T16:23:47.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HM4SFcCWwAASnx6.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/zLVD979tsH"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":25,"like_count":78,"impression_count":20041,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Charts

^is something being misread here?

@TheEconomist I wrote about the incredible progress that we have been making against dementia. Though total numbers are rising (because we are living longer), the actual rate at every age has been coming down sharply for decades. A short 🧵 1/ ","username":"rosenthal_jon","name":"Jonathan Rosenthal","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/741973629685141504/u28_3o87_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-09T16:33:12.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMzKvfEWwAAQahH.png","link_url":"https://t.co/xMv0KLMl3A"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":21,"retweet_count":140,"like_count":816,"impression_count":242130,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">