Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 21, 2023: interesting tweets

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.

Interesting discussions

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^there’s one important resource missing from this list (you’re reading it 😊). Also on this topic this week (not recommended): here, here, here, here, here, here, Beatrice Cherrier here, here, here, here

Charts

^file under: network effects are overrated

^with long enough time horizons you should be worried about not doing the Asher-Novosad-Rafkin selection adjustment, but

Grad school advice / CREAM (convexity rules everything around me)

AI

^a lot of good replies (see also), eg:

Lucas

^related, and a good thread

^another thread on the paper

And from the archives:

Fin

^celebrating wins is good, but shouldn’t the aspiration be that the “home” of a paper is in readers’ heads

^file under: inflation is harder to measure than you think