Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 6, 2022 [2/2]
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.
This is part two of two. Part one is here.
Paper summary threads
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^great concise thread, the newsletter could have included each tweet
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![Twitter avatar for @stef_fischer](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/stef_fischer.jpg)
^semesters versus quarter system. Another thread from coauthor Valerie Bostwick
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More: effect of lifting restrictions on MPs being paid by private cos; kidney exchange; inheritance law and women; handbook chapter on expectations survey data in finance; US antebellum currency and crypto; automatic health insurance enrollment; deficit sustainability; inheritance data; GDPR; bargaining theory + more bargaining theory; quasilinear integrability
Requests for paper threads:
Public goods
![Twitter avatar for @dginev](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/dginev.jpg)
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![Twitter avatar for @DSchindlerEcon](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/DSchindlerEcon.jpg)
More: real-time inequality data; Julia for economists; R data science; Africa geospatial panel data; R for historians of economics
Interesting discussions
![Twitter avatar for @tylercowen](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/tylercowen.jpg)
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^“The best argument for a coordinated market is simply that it serves the interests of the top schools, and makes sure they get the best candidates”
![Twitter avatar for @ImHardcory](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ImHardcory.jpg)
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![Twitter avatar for @thedavidpowell](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/thedavidpowell.jpg)
^the secret master plan of the newsletter is actually to disrupt the top 5 oligopoly