Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 25, 2025: paper summaries

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^claim that this is not about selection into college, surprisingly to me

^long dense thread, one excerpt:

More paper summaries

^claim: “Control group had no intervention whatsoever. The treatment is a max three hours per week after school for six weeks — eighteen hours total. Anything that makes one group study 18 hours more than the other will produce some sort of impact, no?”