Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 9, 2025: paper summaries
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Pop up section below on Oprea (2024) and Banki, Simonsohn, Walatka, and Wu (2025) —
Idiosyncratic favorites
^Brian Albrecht on the policy implications:
^plausibly not just Covid; but frankly waiting to see other evidence on this before I believe it
^these are great weekly threads, hopefully they inspire others :D
Oprea (2024) and Banki, Simonsohn, Walatka, and Wu (2025)
Earlier discussion on Oprea (2024) in the Nov 24 edition and Dec 1 edition from a few weeks ago.
And on the meta level:
^spicy. IMO advancements in AI — that the algorithm for intelligence seems potentially quite simple — plausibly should make us more optimistic that a “grand unified theory of behavioral economics” is possible. Plausibly much more optimistic!
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