Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 31, 2021
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.
Paper summary threads
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More: nominal wage stickiness during the pandemic; “statistical capacity” of nations; youth employment programs and crime; designing surveys; CBO scoring; double-robust identification in panels; sports betting in LICs; fiscal multipliers in HANK; teaching language switch in Indonesia; more on common ownership in cereal and methodology; more on folklore; price platform clauses; tariff retaliation; questioning of male vs. female presenters in seminars; GDP growth and US presidential vote share; corruption in Hungarian media; water quality and children
Minimum wage special section
^Dube @ Neumark here; another useful Dube thread:
The paper also sparked some commentary on meta-analyses in economics:
^see also here
Public goods
Interesting discussions
^lots of comments, eg