Planet Money Paper Club

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can explain something they have always wondered about, or make them see something they have never noticed before. And it inspires their own work.

So, to bring that same sense of discovery to you, the listener, today we are dedicating our show to a special experiment. A new way to share some of the most fascinating, clever and surprising economics papers in a segment we're calling: The Econ Paper Club.

On today's show, we read the econ papers so you don't have to. We take a joyous romp through some of the most fascinating ideas floating around economics right now. And we find that some of those fascinating ideas are about some of the biggest things in life: the careers we choose, the expectations that come with parenting and what one eminent economist calls 'greedy jobs.'

This episode was hosted by Erika Beras and Kenny Malone. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and James Sneed. It was edited by Molly Messick. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Robert Rodriguez. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

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0:00.0	Just a heads up, this episode mentions the company LinkedIn, which has been a sponsor of NPR.
0:07.6	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:12.7	We hear a Planet Money read econ papers, a lot of them.
0:15.7	A lot of them, because, buried in those figures and charts and Greek, lettery formulas,
0:22.4	are incredible observations about our world.
0:25.4	Yes, and once you learn to read econ papers, it's like you've learned a secret
0:29.9	code that unlocks all of these insights and explanations about why things work the way
0:35.2	they do.
0:36.2	Yeah, that's why we love econ papers.
0:38.0	And we thought, you know, how other people have book clubs, well, Planet Money should
0:42.6	have an econ paper club.
0:45.0	So we're going to try something new and very special today, a way to share some of the
0:50.0	most fascinating clever, surprising economics papers in a hopefully recurring segment we
0:57.4	are calling the econ paper club.
1:02.8	Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
1:03.9	I'm Kenny Malone.
1:04.9	And I'm Erica Barris.
1:05.9	And also, hello and welcome to the inaugural Planet Money econ paper club.
1:11.7	We're trying hard to make it work and make it work over and over.
1:15.1	Today on the show, we read the econ papers so you don't have to.
1:19.5	We're going to take you on a joyous romp through some fascinating ideas floating around
1:24.4	economics right now.
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