Best of #econtwitter - JMPs 2021 special edition, part four

Nov 26, 2021

ICYMI: JMP special edition part one + special edition part two + special edition part three; and JMP sections here and here and here.

Job market papers

Kristina Komissarova@KristinaKomis

1/11 Hi #EconTwitter! I’d like to tell you about my JMP «Location Choices over the Life Cycle: the Role of Relocation for Retirement». The paper studies the role of the life cycle for individual’s location choices and for the distribution of economic activity across cities.

8:50 PM · Nov 23, 2021

32 Reposts · 222 Likes

Kristina Komissarova@KristinaKomis

2/11 The paper documents new empirical facts on geographic sorting by age. First, there exists large dispersion in the old-to-young ratios ( 60+/ 25-60) across US Commuting zones (CZs). Second, a 1% higher CZ wage is associated with a 0.9% lower CZ old-to-young ratio.

8:50 PM · Nov 23, 2021

5 Likes

Vasilisa Petrishcheva@VPetrishcheva

Hi #EconTwitter, I'm a behavioral and experimental economist @DICEHHU, and I am on #econjobmarket this year. My #jmp is about willful ignorance and reference-dependence of self-image concerns. TLDR: Self-image is reference-dependent, information avoidance is prominent. 🧵1/N

6:56 PM · Nov 13, 2021

22 Reposts · 128 Likes

Xincheng Qiu@XinchengQiu

Labor supply of men aged over 60 has been rising dramatically over the past three decades. In the meantime, Social Security rules have undergone several changes. @ZhixiuYu7's JMP quantifies the contribution of Social Security rules to the rise of older workers' labor supply.

6:02 PM · Nov 21, 2021

1 Like

Paul Organ@prorgan

Hello #EconTwitter! I'm an applied microeconomist focusing in public finance. Here’s a JMP🧵: “Citizenship and taxes: Evaluating the effects of the U.S. tax system on individuals’ citizenship decisions” Draft and other papers at paulorgan.com #EconJobMarket 1/14

5:35 PM · Nov 21, 2021

24 Reposts · 99 Likes

Negin Mousavi@MMousavi8

Thank you @Simon_Mongey for introducing me and sharing a comprehensive summary of my JMP! Hi #Econtwitter, I am on the JM this year and excited to share my work with you! ↘️neginmousavi.com/research I’d love to hear any feedback/questions. Reach me at nmousavi@uchicago.edu https://t.co/qdPB1JUAfb

Simon Mongey @Simon_Mongey

1/N Let me introduce Negin Mousavi (https://t.co/peOVZaakiP), an excellent student on the market from U Chicago, with her JMP “Optimal Labor Income Tax, Incomplete Markets, and Labor Market Power”. This is an exciting paper! I think will be an important benchmark moving forward https://t.co/df69Zjg1sX

6:21 PM · Nov 24, 2021

5 Reposts · 34 Likes

Cici McNamara@cici_mcnamara

Job market thread! 🧵I'm a PhD candidate specializing in IO and health economics interested in physician/patient decision making. In my JMP, I examine how technology choice influences cancer screening participation. Here's the gist in 10 tweets #EconTwitter [1/10]

12:26 AM · Nov 25, 2021

29 Reposts · 129 Likes

Jonathan A. Parker@ProfJAParker

(2/N) The higher earner in a couple tends to get more of the resources; we see more spending on their clothes, eating out etc.. Olivia shows that when secondary earners are given access to credit, this consumption gap narrows, the division of resourced becomes more equal, by ...

7:02 PM · Nov 19, 2021

Katrin Gödker@KatrinGoedker

The paper provides experimental evidence for a motivated memory bias. In two experiments we show that individuals ⬆️ over-remember their gains and ⬇️ under-remember their losses from investing. (2/5)

4:51 PM · Nov 22, 2021