<![CDATA[Best of Econtwitter]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2aGE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf3fd1df-288a-4bd3-908d-0e2f42a90efd_540x540.pngBest of Econtwitterhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.comSubstackThu, 30 Apr 2026 08:55:58 GMT<![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 29, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-2a3https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-2a3Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:01:42 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

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^“‘is X inflationary’ is determined by the monetary policy reaction function”, never forget it…

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 29, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-81ahttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-81aTue, 28 Apr 2026 17:01:28 GMTWelcome 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.

Good tweets

^link, recommended

^🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 what????????????? Related:

Also:

^friends don’t let friends use the implicit function theorem

^not culture war slop

Charts

^if you’re old enough to remember the Iraq War, you’re old enough to know better than to use the term “disinformation”

Fin

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 22, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-ed0https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-ed0Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:53:39 GMTWelcome 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.

Too many especially good ones this week!!

Idiosyncratic favorites

^“The effect per student is not very big by itself, but one teacher teaches a lot of students and so a teacher’s impact is large.”

^consumption smoothing works, man these charts never get old

^🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

^note data pre-ChatGPT

^but!:

^more discussion with details on the new ‘Swedish law’

Inflation & fiscal policy

^a little too suggestive of causality here to my taste… good points:

Meanwhile: ????

Also:

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 22, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-8a4https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-8a4Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:53:38 GMTWelcome 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.

AI & paper writing

^link

Good tweets

^hm…

^“We do not reward these activities [JEL-style review articles] nearly enough, and their supply is well below what any reasonable social planner would choose.” ← one of those things ~everyone agrees and yet…

(the ‘market’ for papers is not socially efficient, a continuing series)

^link

Public goods

Charts

Fin

real

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 15, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-01dhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-01dWed, 15 Apr 2026 17:05:19 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^Hall-Horton-Knoepfle wins again. Labor markets with ~free entry are really something else…

- Some discussion here about the role of tips, cf Chandar et al on Uber tipping

^excellent, though also this was (partially) “Scooped!” as some amazing researchers might say

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^replication is messy, is like my #2 takeaway from the growth of replication in econ

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 15, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-f4chttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-f4cWed, 15 Apr 2026 17:05:19 GMTWelcome 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.

Good tweets

^I… don’t think this is representative?

^the first welfare theorem does not apply to the journalism sector

Public goods

Charts

^location openings are non-random of course but

^I learned a new word today

Fin

^me with yall

^many of yall with this newsletter be honest

^tweet more!!

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 8, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-880https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-880Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:37:43 GMTWelcome 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.

AI and journal congestion

^a lot of discussion…

^jk… unless?

^plausible as a positive prediction, but commenting normatively: please please please please please please please please please please please please please not more of an oral culture

^my heart craves this system but I think abou this Jess Riedel tweet constantly

RELATED: new non-econ journal with an interesting structure,

In particular:

^🤔

^AI is ~magic but agree

Good tweets

^excellent pedagogical example, link

^(there was no “debate”, only ~one angsty person vs. a few dozen people with brains)

Public goods

Charts

^…

^file under: probably a claude code project that could have been a decent paper

^and they thought the same in 1995 🧐……………………………….

Fin

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 8, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-587https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-587Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:34:46 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^thread pls

^see also:

^would be very curious for any thoughts on this

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 1, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-259https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-259Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:38:00 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^click

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 1, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-833https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-march-833Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:37:59 GMTWelcome 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.

Special welcome to all the new readers joining thanks to Soumaya Keynes’ (excellent, as always) column. The newsletter operates on a few-week lag; you all will see a bunch of econtwitter discussion provoked by that column in your inbox in a few weeks…

Good tweets

^5%, 20%, 30%, 30%, 15% (assuming this is labor productivity and not TFP). “1990s on steroids” is my mental model of the modal outcome

^🤯, link

Public goods

Charts

^we’re so back

Fin

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 22, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-508https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-508Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:01:53 GMTWelcome 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.

Special welcome to all the new readers joining thanks to Soumaya Keynes’ (excellent, as always) column. The newsletter operates on a few-week lag; you all will see a bunch of econtwitter discussion provoked by that column in your inbox in a few weeks…

Good tweets

^thread. Direct link to post… (“How is this economics” fine start your own newsletter then)

^long poast. Followed up by:

From the archives

^this tweet (from 2018 💀) absolutely haunts me

Public goods

Funding opportunity…

^not to make a habit of this (too many tweets to include!), but friend-of-the-newsletter & excellent program:

Charts

^🤯

^not causal identification of course

^link to underlying article

^“estimate”, of course

Fin

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 22, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-f2dhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-f2dMon, 23 Mar 2026 17:01:44 GMTWelcome 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.

Special welcome to all the new readers joining thanks to Soumaya Keynes’ (excellent, as always) column. The newsletter operates on a few-week lag; you all will see a bunch of econtwitter discussion provoked by that column in your inbox in a few weeks…

Idiosyncratic favorites

(Again for new readers: note that these paper-summary tweets are typically only part of longer threads, which you can click through to)

^would love to see this repeated over time to see how the effect changes (if at all) over time (obviously ideally this would have been done pre- and post-Musk). Effects are almost too large to be believed, but, Big If True

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 15, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-ed9https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-ed9Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:21:39 GMTWelcome 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.

A lot of Good Tweets…

  • On the other hand, some of you have started posting copy-and-paste AI slop. Stop that!

Good tweets

^continues, link with details

^this inspired a lot of discussion

^link

^new substack, link

^+1.

^link

From the archives

^file under: tweets that changed my life

Public goods

Charts

^new fav account omg how didn’t I know this existed

^people are unhappy because inflation is still high and wages are sticky, a continuing story

^probably fake news but

Fin

^😭

^if you don’t know, you don’t want to know

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 15, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-6c9https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-6c9Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:21:38 GMTWelcome 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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^what do we think of this chat

^KREAM (K-level thinking rules everything around me)

^“Price controls cause chaos”, summary at Economic Forces here

^read this paper once and you start seeing this story everywhere. Tyler Cowen: “These short pieces and observations are likely among the most important outputs economists will produce this year. But are they being suitably rewarded?”

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^thread

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 8, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-605https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-605Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:37:43 GMTWelcome 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.

Especially good tweets

^I believe the appropriate reaction to this is, “f#$%”. Charts for some of these papers here and here

Substacks

^link

^link

Good tweets

^the Bowles statement made a lot of people mad, but based on the …quality… of many of the responses you will see that AT THE LEAST we teach and often understand this topic very poorly

Public goods

^🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Charts

Fin

^👏

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 8, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-844https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-844Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:37:42 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^Dylan Matthews has a (new!) substack with a good post on this topic

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^another summary

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 1, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-953https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-953Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:45:08 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^Diamond-Dybvig is fake, a continuing series [my words, not the authors’…]

^related:

^big fan of this paper but I wouldn’t describe it as “neoclassical”!! Technology diffusion is a key mechanism, rather than pure “convergence [via capital accumulation]”

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 1, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-320https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-february-320Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:45:08 GMTWelcome 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.

Good tweets

^I will prominently share any and all tweets along these lines

^:

^maybe

Public goods

Charts

^may be fake who knows

^this does not line up how I would have guessed!

^WSJ typically has solid China coverage but a reminder of how bad most China coverage is. Worse even than tech coverage!

^note the divergence starts with covid!

Fin

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 25, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-january-8e6https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-january-8e6Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:18:19 GMTWelcome 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.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^graphs in thread

^another thread (“Vibe Coding Kills Open Source”)

^comment from an econometrics-knower

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 25, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-january-20bhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-january-20bMon, 23 Feb 2026 18:18:19 GMTWelcome 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.

In this week’s edition: Old-age spending eats the world; angsty music; athlete political affiliation by sport; …and more.

Good tweets

^link

Public goods

Charts

^link

^can’t tell if this is fake/inaccurate slop or one of the more interesting charts i’ve seen this month

Fin

From the archives:

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