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"“China shock” fragility: According to David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson (2013), the "China shock" hit the United States from 1990 to 2007. When corrections by Kirill Borusyak et al. (2022) are fully applied, Joseph Francis argues, the harm of Chinese imports to unemployment, labor force participation, wages, and household incomes disappear. “China shock,” Francis argues, illustrates how the “credibility revolution” very much leaves the con in econometrics. (The commented-on authors are hereby invited to reply in a future issue.)"

"The predictions did not come true: A June 2023 decision, SFFA v. Harvard, held that race-based admissions are unconstitutional. Thirty-three selective colleges forecast Black enrollment declines of 50 to 70 percent. Fifteen research universities assured the Court that race-neutral admissions “would undercut” the diversity they seek. David Card estimated that eliminating racial preferences would cut the Black share of Harvard’s admitted class from 14 percent to 6 percent. Three years on, David Kane reports that the predictions did not come anywhere close to true."

"Science confections: Following up on his critique of Jonathan Pekar et al. in Science, Michael Weissman now criticizes Michael Worobey et al. in Science, who claim that case locations and nucleic acid samples showed that SARS-CoV-2 had first been introduced to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market. Several lines of evidence suggest the introduction to humans was earlier and elsewhere. (The commented-on authors are hereby invited to reply in a future issue.)"

"The fall of Fama-French and momentum factors: Commenting on Clifford Asness, Eugene Fama, and Kenneth French, Michael O’Connor argues that momentum’s circa-2003 demise and that of market capitalization and the book-to-market ratio about a decade later represent a structural break or ‘regime change.’ (The commented-on authors are hereby invited to reply in a future issue.)"

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