Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 11, 2023: paper summaries

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

Idiosyncratic favorites

^Beveridge curves by group

^related discussion/commentary near top of last week’s edition. cf: “Just run RCTs, lol.”

On a separate note: interesting paper since not a lot of visibility inside the Amazon economics juggernaut

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^Henry George laser eyes

^and a good thread lit review on brain drain (“The belief in zero supply elasticity is one of the most common economic fallacies.”):

^also: “Kind of insane stat from a new NBER paper: in 2018, in a bunch of science/math/engineering fields, 26.9% of all published papers with US authors had a Chinese-born, US-trained scientist as an author”

^EPA = Equal Pay Act

^“a meta-analysis that came out last year found that cooperation rates in economic games *increased* from 1956 to 2017”

^“Essentially, our proposed story is that small exchanges are "costly windows" into Binance liquidity for their customers. A small exchange, perhaps, figures out how to navigate the banking and regulation system in a small country, say for example, the Philippines”

^three interesting crypto papers in one week? 👀

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