Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 30, 2023: paper summaries

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Paper summaries

^Anders Sansberg summarizes and Toby Ord comments (from outside econ perspectives)

^figure is unreadable in the tweet (!) but

^“Quick reminder that these “randomly assigned gender” studies often answer pretty narrow questions. This paper is about the perceived gender of “email mentors” who receive only a handful of emails from only 42% of the class — not the professor, not the TA.”

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