Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 17, 2023: paper summaries
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Idiosyncratic favorites
^skimming this paper (new out in NBER) looks interesting, would read a more in-depth thread :)
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Paper summaries
^this last point is a consistent finding in this new lit […based on technology as of Q3 2023]
^this idea made some tweeters unhappy (possibly because it makes them ZMP workers), Rachel Glennerster comments: “I think its important to distinguish different objectives of qual interviews […] maybe call it something else other than qualitative interviews”
^commentary from Matthew Kahn, “My complaint with the modern climate change "causal effects" literature is that it doesn't feature a supply side”
Request for paper threads
More paper summaries
^research is much more fun when you have actual skin in the game; Harvey responds; Asness ‘sorry. but’; Chen comments; context
^“Effect sizes this big don’t exist in education so this will be selection bias somehow”, I haven’t looked into it but seems bad:
