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1	Dec 5, '23	Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-To-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes" by Qi Ge and Stephen Wu.	21.8×	260k	319	88	114
2	Feb 21, '23	Econ PhDs are struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression at rates more than twice that of the general population, says @vbolotnyy of @Stanford. We spoke with him about why	18.3×	219k	326	111	54
3	Jul 9, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity" by Meera Mahadevan.	15×	180k	231	48	96
4	Mar 4, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit" by Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley, and Aysegül Sahin.	14.6×	175k	160	15	46
5	Sep 14, '23	Forthcoming in the AER: "Populist Leaders and the Economy" by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch.	14.5×	174k	325	109	113
6	Jan 23, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice" by Peter Bergman, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren,	13.5×	161k	161	47	88
7	May 1, '19	Congratulations to Emi Nakamura of @berkeleyecon, winner of the 2019 John Bates Clark Medal!	10.3×	0	1.6k	571	33
8	Sep 28, '23	Forthcoming in the AER: "Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy" by Maarten De Ridder.	9.6×	114k	243	48	92
9	Oct 10, '23	The consequences of losing a job vary widely across Europe, say researchers at @NHHnor, @uc3m, @BancoDeEspana, @EconUniMannheim, @vatt_tutkimus, and @ubcVSE. Their findings may hel	9.6×	114k	237	85	55
10	Sep 13, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions" by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Hull, and Michal Kolesár.	9.1×	109k	193	45	132
11	Sep 26, '23	Remote instruction over the pandemic led to worse than expected growth in reading and math scores, especially in high-poverty school districts, say researchers at @caldercenter, @h	9.1×	108k	202	93	43
12	Apr 28, '20	Congratulations to Melissa Dell of @Harvard, winner of the 2020 John Bates Clark Medal!	8.0×	0	1.4k	373	18
13	Oct 3, '23	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills" by Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, an	7.4×	89k	173	36	78
14	Dec 20, '23	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Religion and Growth" by Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, and Ludger Woessmann.	6.9×	83k	166	47	65
15	Oct 24, '23	Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil" by Mateus Dias and Luiz Felipe Fontes.	5.6×	66k	174	35	54
16	May 29, '24	The US spends billions of dollars each year on public libraries. An analysis of the timing of these investments shows that they have a significant impact on child academic performa	5.6×	66k	298	102	102
17	Jul 2, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India" by Eyal Frank and Anant Sudarshan.	⚡ 5.5×	1.8M	667	132	319
18	Jan 5, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "On Binscatter" by Matias D. Cattaneo, Richard K. Crump, Max H. Farrell, and Yingjie Feng.	5.4×	64k	199	39	107
19	Mar 25, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools" by Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, and Paolo Pinotti.	5.1×	61k	200	53	65
20	Apr 30, '24	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal" by Ivan Boldyrev.	5.0×	60k	190	56	119
21	Jun 24, '25	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'	4.5×	54k	664	199	519
22	Aug 28, '23	Many Indian workers are willing to forgo sizable wages to avoid doing tasks that aren’t consistent with their caste, says @suannaoh of @PSEinfo. Her findings illustrate an importan	4.5×	54k	283	90	56
23	Nov 27, '23	When news about local corruption broke in Italy, shoppers became more likely to steal from supermarkets, demonstrating the contagious effect of bad behavior, say researchers at @un	4.1×	50k	254	62	74
24	Apr 24, '24	Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Location, Location, Location" by David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi.	4.0×	48k	200	50	89
25	Jun 18, '25	Forthcoming in the JEL: "How Do Central Banks Control Inflation? A Guide for the Perplexed" by Laura Castillo-Martinez and Ricardo Reis.	3.9×	47k	269	85	290
26	Oct 2, '23	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists" by Anton Korinek.	3.8×	46k	230	76	120
27	May 20, '24	Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economics of Social Media" by Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Ro'ee Levy, and Lena Song.	3.7×	44k	192	49	83
28	Jul 3, '25	Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder" by Berkeren Büyükeren, Alexey Makarin, and Heyu Xiong.	3.7×	44k	185	39	109
29	Mar 21, '24	Forthcoming in the AER: "Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia" by Alessandra Fenizia and Raffaele Saggio.	3.5×	42k	191	49	68
30	Oct 18, '23	Anti-scientific rhetoric from political leaders in Brazil had a significant impact on how closely citizens followed COVID-19 guidelines, say researchers at @mcgillu, @Cambridge_Uni	3.4×	40k	216	61	30
31	Apr 20, '18	Congratulations to Parag Pathak, winner of the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal!	3.2×	0	430	204	1
32	Mar 11, '21	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy, Matthew Basilico, and Paul Barreira.	3.1×	0	401	132	57
33	Oct 6, '20	2020 AEA Election results: Congratulations to President-elect Christina Romer, VPs Kerwin Kofi Charles and @ShellyJLundberg, and members @Econ_Sandy and Emi Nakamura!	3.0×	0	587	112	5
34	Mar 23, '21	Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major" by Zachary Bleemer and Aashish M	3.0×	0	359	89	100
35	Apr 10, '24	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Social Protection in the Developing World" by Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Diana Sverdlin Lisker.	2.9×	35k	187	63	95
36	Jul 15, '25	Forthcoming in the AER: "Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development" by Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, and Monica Morlacco.	2.8×	33k	209	45	85
37	Oct 26, '20	When Colombia offered bonuses to soldiers who killed rebels, the incentives backfired and led to an upsurge in the murder of innocent civilians, say researchers at @MITEcon, @Unian	2.8×	0	393	148	34
38	Aug 1, '23	Toxic rhetoric on social media can have real-world consequences, say researchers at @NUSBizSchool and @Unibocconi. They found that higher Twitter use helped to amplify an increase	2.8×	33k	155	48	38
39	Sep 20, '24	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Deep Learning for Economists" by Melissa Dell.	2.7×	33k	367	89	267
40	Aug 16, '23	The skills that a workforce picks up on the job may be nearly as important for economic development as the skills acquired in the classroom, say economists at @GWUEconomics, @Bosto	2.7×	32k	218	64	63
41	Apr 2, '24	Low-income children in Florida whose families received health insurance coverage from a Medicaid expansion in 1990 were significantly less likely to go to prison as an adult, say r	2.6×	31k	205	77	57
42	May 7, '24	Publishing in economics journals takes nearly twice as long as journals from comparable fields in other social sciences. We spoke with Dan Hamermesh of @UTAustin about why the pace	2.5×	30k	172	70	47
43	Apr 23, '25	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending" by Juan Antolin-Diaz and Paolo Surico.	2.4×	29k	184	56	76
44	Feb 25, '20	Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Statistical Non-significance in Empirical Economics" by Alberto Abadie.	2.4×	0	329	124	56
45	Jun 27, '19	Italians who watched a lot of entertainment TV as children were less civic-minded as adults and more vulnerable to populist rhetoric. Coming soon to AER.	2.4×	0	294	140	11
46	Mar 28, '24	Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "What Caused the U.S. Pandemic-Era Inflation?" by Ben Bernanke and Olivier Blanchard.	2.3×	28k	185	65	95
47	Jun 10, '20	We spoke with John Bates Clark Medalist Melissa Dell about the through line to her research, the insights she’s gained from first-hand experience, and what advice she has for young	2.2×	0	319	117	47
48	Sep 3, '19	Inequality is worse than economists previously thought, according to @annette_als, Niels Johannesen, and @gabriel_zucman. Their work in today's #ChartOfTheWeek shows how much stand	2.2×	0	230	165	16
49	Jul 11, '24	A recent article in JEL, "Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists" by Anton Korinek, will receive regular updates posted under "Additional Ma	2.2×	26k	213	62	152
50	Apr 14, '17	Congratulations to Dave Donaldson, winner of the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal!	2.1×	0	188	177	1
51	May 19, '21	Political corruption isn’t just bad governance. It may also erode ethical standards in the rest of society, says @Nicolas_Ajz of @FGV. In today’s #ChartOfTheWeek, he looked at the	2.0×	0	314	94	28
52	Oct 23, '20	Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment" by Ro'ee Levy.	2.0×	0	301	64	55
53	Mar 7, '24	Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Enemies of the People" by Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina.	⚡ 1.9×	447k	244	39	118
54	Sep 1, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "Synthetic Difference in Differences" by Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Susan Athey, David A. Hirshberg, Guido W. Imbens, and Stefan Wager.	1.9×	0	261	64	77
55	Feb 1, '21	The children of immigrants climb the income ladder faster than kids with US-born parents, especially among the poorest families. This is as true today as it was a century ago, say	1.8×	0	265	109	25
56	Oct 3, '22	Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the U.S." by Tomás E. Monarrez.	1.8×	0	220	47	88
57	Oct 14, '20	Forthcoming in the AER: "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries" by Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, and Santiago Pérez.	1.8×	0	307	75	27
58	Jun 24, '20	Economic models miss a lot about how racial discrimination affects our world. Sociology can help economists broaden their perspective, says @MarioLuisSmall in today's #ResearchHigh	1.7×	0	245	78	33
59	Nov 9, '20	When politicians had hiring discretion in Brazil, public sector jobs often went to the least capable but most politically connected applicants, say researchers at @ChicagoBooth, @U	1.7×	0	258	84	30
60	Jun 28, '21	Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Best of Both Worlds: Combining RCTs with Structural Modeling" by Petra E. Todd and Kenneth I. Wolpin.	1.7×	0	235	73	61
61	Jun 15, '20	Forthcoming in the AER: "Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" by Clément de Chaisemartin and Xavier D'Haultfœuille.	1.7×	0	261	68	49
62	Jun 18, '20	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects" by Alberto Abadie.	1.7×	0	236	71	59
63	Jan 9, '20	Homes in London neighborhoods hit by cholera 160 years ago still sell at a discount today. The reasons might offer insights into why cities have lasting pockets of poverty, accordi	1.6×	0	220	93	29
64	Sep 16, '19	Working alongside a friend leads to significant declines in productivity, even if worker wages are cut as a result of poor performance, according to Sangyoon Park of @HKUFBE #Chart	1.6×	0	178	82	16
65	Apr 7, '21	Switzerland saw a large surge in skilled foreign workers after opening its border to the EU. But contrary to standard models, it boosted the wages of highly educated natives, say r	1.6×	0	229	81	29
66	Aug 12, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War" by Philipp Ager, Leah Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson.	1.6×	0	247	49	52
67	Jul 29, '20	Only around a third of economics majors are women. One way to encourage more women to enter the field would be to provide female role models, say @EconCath and @danilaserra_eco in	1.5×	0	216	95	12
68	Jan 23, '24	Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Zooming to Class?: Experimental Evidence on College Students’ Online Learning during COVID-19" by Michael S. Kofoed, Lucas Gebhart, Dallas Gilmore, a	⚡ 1.5×	327k	156	53	69
69	Apr 29, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio" by Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, and Jeffrey Weaver.	1.4×	0	176	38	38
70	Nov 11, '21	Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?" by Thomas Blanchet, Lucas Chancel, and Amory Gethin.	1.4×	0	168	49	47
71	May 13, '22	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence" by Litterio Mirenda, Sauro Mocetti, and Lucia Rizzica.	1.4×	0	221	53	38
72	Dec 21, '21	Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Pre-test with Caution: Event-Study Estimates after Testing for Parallel Trends" by Jonathan Roth.	1.4×	0	179	45	69
73	Jun 21, '21	Female academics were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 disruptions, experiencing larger declines in research time compared to men, say @olgashurchkov, @JennaEStearns, and @T	1.4×	0	188	86	14
74	Mar 17, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes" by Andrew Goodman-Bacon.	1.4×	0	224	49	26
75	May 28, '20	Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption" by Nicolás Ajzenman.	1.3×	0	182	58	21
76	Aug 3, '20	Forthcoming in the AER: "Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics" by Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, and Anthony Heyes.	1.3×	0	181	56	39
77	Oct 21, '20	Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia" by Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Javier Ávila-Mahecha.	1.3×	0	202	53	28
78	Nov 8, '21	Relaxed copyright protections during WWII spurred more scientific innovation and boosted academic careers in the US, say @BarbaraBiasi and @PMoserEcon in today's #ChartOfTheWeek	1.3×	0	211	56	25
79	Aug 30, '21	Twenty years ago, economists rarely shared their data or code. Now, research transparency transparency is becoming a professional norm, says @tedmiguel in today's #ChartOfTheWeek	1.3×	0	225	61	11
80	Oct 15, '24	When vultures in India died out, human mortality increased significantly, say researchers at @HarrisPolicy and @warwickecon. The findings show the importance of so-called keystone	⚡ 1.3×	228k	186	46	42
81	Feb 12, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students" by Susan Dynarski, C. J. Libas	1.3×	0	204	42	24
82	Nov 17, '17	We've got a new complimentary teaching tool for educators: economic concepts in real world examples. Check it out here.	1.2×	0	189	82	2
83	Jun 5, '20	The Executive Committee of the AEA issued the following statement to members today:	1.2×	0	169	62	4
84	Oct 5, '22	Forthcoming in the AER: "Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health" by Chloe N. East, Sarah	1.2×	0	210	48	25
85	Feb 18, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices" by Natalie Bau.	1.2×	0	193	39	41
86	Jul 6, '20	A few journals play an outsized role in the careers of young economists, even after controlling for quality. The pressure to publish in the top five may be hurting the profession,	1.1×	0	183	66	9
87	Feb 25, '22	Forthcoming in the AER: "Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature" by Rachael Meager.	1.1×	0	214	21	31
88	Feb 14, '22	When a new political party takes power, replacements to top government positions and beyond often follow. But such turnover can have detrimental effects on the quality of public se	1.1×	0	184	47	20
89	Jan 21, '22	Forthcoming in the AER: "Labor Market Power" by David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon Mongey.	1.1×	0	185	34	36
90	Nov 30, '21	Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion" by Sarah Miller, Laura R. Wherry, and Diana Greene Foster.	1.1×	0	166	48	24
91	Nov 22, '21	Forthcoming in the AER: "Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions" by Christopher Huckfeldt.	1.1×	0	164	38	33
92	Apr 13, '20	Forthcoming in the AER: "Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How" by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Isaac Sorkin, and Henry Swift.	1.1×	0	191	42	21
93	Jan 29, '20	Being promoted to a top job increases the probability of divorce for women, but not for men. The effects seem to be driven by how career advancement relates to traditional gender n	1.1×	0	156	70	6
94	Aug 17, '20	There’s not a lot evidence that prestigious colleges produce better educated graduates, but they can still boost earnings, says Sheetal Sekhri of @UVAEcon #ChartOfTheWeek	1.0×	0	165	51	16
95	Nov 18, '20	Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Political Economy of Populism" by Sergei Guriev and Elias Papaioannou.	1.0×	0	170	39	21
96	Apr 14, '21	US universities lead the world in research, but their ascendancy started earlier than many people believe. We spoke with @m_urquiola about which schools propelled them to the top a	1.0×	0	162	46	20
97	May 12, '20	Forthcoming in the JEL: "Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics" by Guido W. Imbens.	1.0×	0	153	38	27
98	Dec 23, '20	Giving cash to poor families helped alleviate stunting in Indonesian children. We spoke with @rema_nadeem of @Kennedy_School about her research on conditional cash transfers and wh	1.0×	0	174	45	14
99	Apr 6, '22	Forthcoming in the AER: "When Choices Are Mistakes" by Kirby Nielsen and John Rehbeck.	0.9×	0	166	21	24
100	Oct 14, '19	Congratulations to AER editor Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee of @MIT and Michael Kremer of @Harvard on winning the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences! Read more here:	0.9×	0	191	39	1

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