Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 7, 2023: paper summaries
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Twitter continues to block Substack from embedding tweets…
Idiosyncratic favorites
^separately: “Chat GPT gives remarkably realistic forecast predictions, with even the same types of errors that professional forecasters exhibit”
Paper summaries
^“it's just an OLS regression with an "if" statement.”
^“the treatment effect was 3.19%-3.93%, depending on the sidewalk. That translates to approximately 3.1 to 4.4 inches”, wonder about the quantile TEs