Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 28, 2024: paper summaries

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^note this is different from the gambling paper featured two weeks ago

^the newsletter periodically links to the tweet saying: “Motion to rename ‘online advertising’ to ‘small business customer discovery and economic growth technology’.”

^“observational” elasticity estimates here are doing OLS with controls — it’s not BLP. Waiting for anyone to do the horse race of BLP vs. experimental estimates of demand…

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^useful comment