Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 22, 2026: paper summaries

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Too many especially good ones this week!!

Idiosyncratic favorites

^“The effect per student is not very big by itself, but one teacher teaches a lot of students and so a teacher’s impact is large.”

^consumption smoothing works, man these charts never get old

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^note data pre-ChatGPT

^but!:

^more discussion with details on the new ‘Swedish law’

Inflation & fiscal policy

^a little too suggestive of causality here to my taste… good points:

Meanwhile: ????

Also:

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