Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 15, 2024: paper summaries

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^teaching slides, “My pithy explanation for why there's contamination bias in multiple treatment regressions with controls: matrix inverses are weirder than dividing”, and:

More paper summaries

^“New paper finds that human experts are on average not very good at generating novel research ideas”