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From NPR, we here at Planet Money read econ papers.
A lot of them.
A lot of them, because buried in those figures and charts and greek lettery formulas are incredible observations about our world.
Yes.
And once you learn to read econ papers, it's like you've learned a secret code that unlocks all of these insights and explanations about why things work the way they do.
Yeah, it's why we love econ papers.
And we thought, you know, how other people have book clubs.
Well, Planet money should have an econ paper club.
So we're gonna try something new and very special today, a way to share some of the most fascinating, clever, surprising economics papers in a hopefully recurring segment we are calling the Econ Paper Club.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Kenny Malone.
And I'm Erica Barris.
And also, hello, and welcome to the inaugural Planet Money Econ Paper Club.
We're trying hard to make it work and make it work over and over.
Today on the show, we read the econ papers, so you don't have to.
We're going to take you on a joyous romp through some fascinating ideas floating around economics right now, last year, thousands of school principals all got the exact same email from the exact same parents with the exact same subject line, which was school inquiry.
Now, was this a real school inquiry?
No.