Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 16, 2023: paper summaries

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

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There is a lot of commentary that ‘twitter is dying’ etc, but a LOT of interesting papers this week; and all the paper summary threads continue to be on twitter, not other platforms…

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Idiosyncratic favorites

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^back-and-forth on this paper here.

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China shock

^a lot of attention here, but (Cowen’s second law):

not to mention the overwhelming conceptual challenge here, you have to put on your macroeconomist hat:

also!:

Paper summaries

^part 1;

^click through to see breakdown by religion; and

^click through here to see breakdown by religion. County/state-level maps

^same paper:

^GIF!

Poli sci pop up section

^the borders here are always blurry; also someone please start a Best of PolisciTwitter

^“Two things can be true: 1) politicians can enact laws with bad intentions; 2) those laws can have minimal effects.” additional commentary

More paper summaries

^Future Perfect article