Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 8, 2021
Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Thanks to those sharing suggestions, over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
Paper summary threads
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^thread on research transparency trends. Though: “avg time to prepare replication materials was 31.5 hrs”
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More: homework copying; People’s Daily geographic bias; trade liberalization and firm productivity; extreme weather and economic activity; Acid Rain Program and health; performance measures and health policy; colonial money in Canada; YouTube content; income segregation and (physical) mobility patterns; integenerational mobility in India
Public goods
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More: no one tweeted it but “Using PGFPLOTS to make economic graphs in LATEX”
Interesting discussions
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^started another round of discourse on this: eg more, more, more, more, epi comparison. In particular
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^especially good replies. Eg