More seriously: FG from Brown is the real star. MC’s students and some of the Yale students could do very well, too. Perhaps some others as well."To showcase the estimation procedure, we obtain bounds on distributional causal
effects of expenditures on leisure and food, using the 1996 UK Family Expenditure Survey. We find that food is a necessity while leisure is a luxury good"
I would have thought it was the opposite.
This is the best that this year has to offer? Shouldn't a new technique tell us something new about the world? This seems pretty lame. There is a reason why this field is dying.