Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 23, 2025: paper summaries

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^cross-country mega studies >>>>>

Here’s the spicy version, what do we think chat:

^“More than 40 research assistants called every abortion facility in the country for appointment availability information...repeatedly”

^synthetic control

^:

^“Are your views on sticky nominal wages and the minimum wage consistent?”

^“basically "the DICE model for AI"”

^would also be curious to see this!

^an actual RCT!

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