Best of #econtwitter - Weeks of Feb 25, March 3, and March 10, 2024: paper summaries
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So much good stuff 🤩
Idiosyncratic favorites
^Emily Oster covered the paper this week (PS: I subscribed to her shiny new ParentData newsletter this month; a revealed preference endorsement)
^definitive paper so far on the TCJA? NYT treatment
^throwback to @quantian1 thread arguing this in August
^file under: measuring inflation is always even more complicated than you think. Timothy B. Lee and Aden Barton had an excellent explainer on this particular issue in 2022
^yes, this is automating your job
^thread has GIFs 👍
^oopsie whoopsie
^I’ll take the liberty of reproducing: (“Most of the gray is a function of insane R&R requests, like adding a structural model or running an additional field experiment”)
More paper summaries
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^bro 😭