Best of #econtwitter - Weeks of April 7 and April 14, 2024: paper summaries

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

This edition is a bit of a monster. We’ll be doubling up — covering two weeks at a time — for a bit, in order to catch up…

Idiosyncratic favorites

^and some more

^in the same vein as the RAND or Oregon Medicaid studies

^related recent Scott Alexander post, and from the archives: @goodmanbacon lit review

^additional context from Shengwu Li

^from the above:

^Tyler Cowen: “She is flat out one of the best columnists period, time for more people to say that!”

^“108 companies, graded from most to least racist”, rip, I do love dr pepper though

Replicability

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