For example, a study of the French creche system is brought up, but the Economist author does not mention that this is an observational study (the authors deploy an IV strategy that driven by month-of-bird and municipality fixed effects - which could be problematic)

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Sadly I don't feel like making enemies with people who might easily be my next referee! But maybe a blog post explaining common misconceptions is in order

Knowledge of the policy space among academic economist is pretty low, given it is a hard topic to study well. That leaves the door open for perhaps well meaning but misguided, uninformed analyses with no good referee back check

Hi Tena - I'm curious why Andrei Borodin didn't make the cut?

Haven't these people heard of the *Common Reporting Standard*??

Pretty small Ns here, no?

How well do we think the experience of *checks notes* Romania would play out in the US?