Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 19, 2023: interesting tweets

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Job market advice

Job market & cover letters

^launched a lot of conversation

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TLDR:

Misc

^lots of room left to go, but modern portfolio theory really is one of the big success stories for economic theory influencing practice

Public goods

Charts

^from a thread based on a thought-provoking ‘big think’ article, here’s another chart:

^seems bad if true

^(“Gen Z” here starts in 1997)

^I’m not sure the thread provides evidence for monocausality: politics & climate seem to matter too

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Emily Oster seems to be off Twitter but here’s a chart from her Substack this week I thought was interesting and can’t find in a tweet:

Fin