Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 17, 2023: interesting tweets

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

Misc

^last week’s newsletter discussed the robustness of twitter, but, this^ kind of tweet used to get more good discussion going every December, a few years back 🥲🥲🥲. Not too late to participate though :)

Phones and PISA scores

Charts

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^this is really not how I’d summarize the data-dense column (not to mention the time-varying composition effects of defining “high school or less”), which also considers: mismeasurement + aging + composition effects + obesity. I left the article thinking composition effects must matter, but also that obesity might be very important. Also I’m going to pull out this additional chart, since it adds to the confusion IMO:

^a version of this chart goes viral every few months, and it’s not even properly measured? 😵😵😵😵😵 Also: where’s the line for “PhD program”…

Public goods

Fin

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