Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 14, 2023: paper summaries

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

Twitter continues to block Substack from embedding tweets…

Idiosyncratic favorites

^file under: answering surveys is consumption

Paper summaries

^“This is a good example of economists making an important, non-obvious prediction based largely theory and being right for the right reasons.”; “let me remind you of some of the doomsday predictions around the time we wrote our original paper”. More. To be clear it was a large cost

^random old tweet to highlight the figures from this interesting paper, briefly discussed on the podcast episode here

More paper summaries

Requests for paper summary threads:

• Reconciling Seemingly Contradictory Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and the Massachusetts Health Reform

• Why Is End-of-Life Spending So High? Evidence from Cancer Patients