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Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Who will put $600 to better use -- Scrooge, or Tiny Tim?A Christmas economics explainer.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/should-you-give-600-to-scrooge-or 2/A few people claim that Scrooge would put $600 to better use, because he'd s

Justin (taken over by @DocWak) Dimick

jdimick1

Good Morning twitter world! I’m @DocWak & I'm taking over my @UMichSurgery chair's twitter for the day for #ShareTheMicNowMed. Ready to engage in all topics. I have two goals for

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

The $600 supplement to unemployment benefits has allowed laid-off workers to pay rent and buy groceries, and has helped prop up the broader economy.Now we are mere days away from

David Evans

DaveEvansPhD

I regularly spend time looking for papers on researchers' websites. I love it when a researchers' personal website...[short thread] ...has links to all the papers! You might be surprised at

JB

goosenotter

Here we go folks, now it’s time to talk about Permitless Carry.There are 7 Permitless Carry bills in the #inlegis this year. All do the same basic things, and they’re

James Lomas

JamesLomas88

New pharmaceutical products in the US whose prices don't represent good value for money come at a real cost - listen to us on @bridgethecitywi talking about recent work by

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, here's a thread of my latest Noahpinion blog post.Why macroeconomic policy discussions have become less theoretical and less pro-austerity since the Great Recession:https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-new-macro-give-people-money

Women in Econ/Policy

weconpol

Are you a young researcher new to Twitter, in particular #EconTwitter ? Here's a short thread of all the tips, guides, help, advice we could find on how to use

Katherine Michelmore

michelmorek

@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Quick Thread. The inefficient, odd Green New Deal, GDP growth and you. Let's begin... Climate change environmentalists often come bearing a Green New Deal. The bundle presents itself most authoritatively

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Here's a @bopinion post about why we need a National Population Strategy.People don't realize it, but our country is headed for the kind of rapid aging that other rich countries

Sam Bowman

s8mb

The benefits to society of the Pfizer vaccine are likely to be orders of magnitude greater than the profits Pfizer makes from it. An example of how private innovators only

Matt Clancy

mattsclancy

Remote collaboration in innovation is on the rise. The average distance between all the inventors listed on a patent has tripled between 1975 and 2015. #ThursdayThreads Of course, the number

Andrew Baker

Andrew___Baker

Along with Dave Larcker and Brian Tayan I recently wrote up a small memo for Stanford's Closer Look series, that can be found here - https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/environmental-spinoffs-attempt-dump-liabilit

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

This piece by @clairecm includes an uncited false statement about the research on pronatalism. It flatly contradicts the existing research by claiming that childcare subsidies boost fertility more than child

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Lots of tech companies and workers are making noises about leaving San Francisco, LA, NYC, and other "superstar" cities. Some are predicting a shift to remote work and distributed companies.Let's

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