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Good tweets
Preston Cooper@PrestonCooper93
Georgetown University recently crossed a sticker price of $100,000 per year--but nobody pays the sticker price, right?
Not quite. Less than half of Georgetown's students receive any financial aid. Across higher ed, lots of students pay the sticker price. My latest
2:14 PM · Jul 13, 2026 · 56.6K Views
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Soumaya Keynes@SoumayaKeynes
The parenting spreadsheet is to cope with a working arrangement that very few Britons describe as the best way to deal with young children: both my husband and I work full-time.
7:10 AM · Jul 16, 2026 · 5.02K Views
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Soumaya Keynes@SoumayaKeynes
The parenting spreadsheet is to aim for an even distribution of childcare.
Mothers tend to do most childcare, regardless of their relative earnings.
(Note these are simple averages - there are definitely differences between the couple types beyond relative earnings!)
7:10 AM · Jul 16, 2026 · 11.9K Views
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^amazing. Begging for more of these
Gita Gopinath@GitaGopinath
A takeaway from the National Bureau of Economic Research meetings: The premium on research that is mainly about computational complexity has dropped sharply owing to AI. The pendulum is swinging back to 'new insights,' 'new mechanisms,' 'new measurements.' Not a bad thing.
12:49 PM · Jul 19, 2026 · 220K Views
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^will wait to see this in publications before believing it 😶…
Public goods
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
We couldn’t find a usable set of boundaries for 10,000+ global cities, so we (@devdatalab) developed our own and made them open for research.
We were kind of shocked this didn’t exist already. A thread 1/
12:38 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 68.3K Views
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Charts
Jonathon P Sine@JonathonPSine
China's preschool enrollment collapse is quite dramatic, peak to trough:
falling 33% from 2020, from 48 million to 32 million now
(via MOE yearbooks & CEIC)
Caixin Global @caixin
China closed nearly 30,000 kindergartens and primary schools in 2025, the starkest sign yet that a prolonged demographic slump is fundamentally upending the country’s vast education system. https://t.co/vdyL57KD1N
3:09 PM · Jul 13, 2026 · 25.3K Views
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Ernie Tedeschi@ernietedeschi
New @stripe Economics research with @llamamrama, following up on our prior solopreneur work. Here we focus on the UK. We find evidence that official public data on UK business formations may be *understating* recent acceleration. /1
3:55 PM · Jul 13, 2026 · 5.66K Views
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Santiago Calvo@SantiCalvo_Eco
España acelera y aporta ya el 65% de lo que aumenta la población en Europa.
España representa el 10,9% de la población de la UE y explica el 65,4% de su crecimiento. Sin nosotros, Europa habría sumado apenas 244.000 personas en 2025, con once países perdiendo habitantes y 21 de
11:27 AM · Jul 14, 2026 · 144K Views
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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert
A majority of judges are women in all EU countries except Ireland
12:51 PM · Jul 17, 2026 · 788K Views
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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert
Over the last five years, social security spending has overtaken public infrastructure spending in China.
A pattern reminiscent of Western countries.
10:12 AM · Jul 18, 2026 · 80.5K Views
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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert
In many places in the English speaking world, an increasing share of 25-34 year olds live with their parents; especially people with a lower income. By @jburnmurdoch
7:19 PM · Jul 18, 2026 · 7.68K Views
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