Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 3, 2023: paper summaries

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Paper summaries

^sounds like new high-quality data for OpenAI’s next training run

^this is perhaps obvious to long-time readers, but @JPubEc’s twitter style of “the paper, in one graph” makes for very good twitter content — all of the next five graphs are standalone bangers:

^original 2022 thread here

^more summary here

^see Dean Eckles linked in last week’s edition on difficulties with this identification strategy

^more papers should also be firms

^a bit more on this here

Cash transfers & homelessness

^got a lot of attention but also a lot of pushback

^other similar critiques floating around. The author comments here

Relatedly: more Jon Baron summary of other (i.e. unrelated) RCTs here, here, here, here, and at the Evidence-Based Policy Newsletter

More paper summaries

^original 2021 thread from the author here

^more from QME conference:

• Pricing and Efficiency in a Decentralized Ride-Hailing Platform

• Off-Policy Learning of Content Promotions: Optimal Curation of Digital Distribution Channels

• Preferences for Firearms and their Implications for Regulation

• Can Facebook Ads prevent malaria? Two field experiments in India

• Addiction and Alcohol Tax: Evidence from Japanese Beer Industry

• Identity and Economic Incentives

• Can Gender-Blind Algorithmic Pricing Eliminate the Gender Gap

• On the endogeneity of U.S. retail prices: Insights from a large-scale field experiment