Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 28, 2026: paper summaries
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^Garett Jones: “In the end, Sobel doesn’t answer his own question numerically, so I asked Opus: If you’re 99% accurate, count stacks of 15 cards, then count stacks of 15 stacks, then count those stacked stacks.”
Peter Hull@instrumenthull
One of my favorite parts of the paper is where we bring the "one weird trick" (for characterizing effective populations) to judge designs
By just changing around the outcome of a UJIVE regression, we can unbiasedly estimate complier means, gauge external validity, and even test
Peter Hull @instrumenthull
We've updated the "operators manual" to judge/examiner/leniency designs, to appear later this year in the JEP!
Lots of new results and practical tips here -- link below!
1:53 PM · Jun 20, 2026 · 22K Views
3 Replies · 15 Reposts · 85 Likes
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Greg Kaplan@GregWKaplan
New paper: "How Does Monetary and Fiscal Policy Affect the Economy in the Face of Large Shocks?" (with @KenMiyahara ) Paper: shorturl.at/K3zUK
Two model features are important for understanding the effects of policy in the COVID era: heterogeneous households +
10:45 PM · Jun 24, 2026 · 40.5K Views
5 Replies · 47 Reposts · 202 Likes
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