Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 22, 2026: paper summaries

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

Special welcome to all the new readers joining thanks to Soumaya Keynes’ (excellent, as always) column. The newsletter operates on a few-week lag; you all will see a bunch of econtwitter discussion provoked by that column in your inbox in a few weeks…

Idiosyncratic favorites

(Again for new readers: note that these paper-summary tweets are typically only part of longer threads, which you can click through to)

^would love to see this repeated over time to see how the effect changes (if at all) over time (obviously ideally this would have been done pre- and post-Musk). Effects are almost too large to be believed, but, Big If True

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