Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 30, 2023: paper summaries

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A lot of papers this week (thanks NBER SI?)…

Idiosyncratic favorites

A running theme of this newsletter is that mental health- and reproductive health-related topic are underrated, and this week we have papers on both:

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^note this is about the ~130% rise in suicide-related hospital visits and diagnoses, not about the ~30% rise in suicides themselves. Still, “very much want to believe”. Related chart, though this isn’t from a paper:

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^careful with inferring causation of course…

^important!, though my understanding is that the literature goes back and forth on this (measuring consumption: harder than measuring income)

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Paper summaries

^very clear thread

^charts:

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^link to slides

^“chance of homelessness” among the targeted population

^no idea if this is legit but

^yes this thread does have a chart of strip club attendance by religious identity. Another thread here and a summary thread including on (plausibly nontrivial) data limitations

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