Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 31, 2025: paper summaries
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AI and the labor market
^a little odd that half the decline comes before GPT-4 was released (March 2023), but note that criticism isn’t so much a problem in the broader trends:
and is especially not a problem for the within-firm analysis:
Very good commentary, worth clicking through:
More:
^thread continues. Not sure what to make of the timing on this one (h/t AR)
Idiosyncratic favorites
^friendly reminder that the newsletter has generated a nice observational dataset on Econtwitter… send collaboration ideas
^EP-REAM
^from the archives, on Hansen and Lang (2011):
More paper summaries
^wonder about stated vs. revealed preferences here but either way 🥴
