Best of #econtwitter - JMPs 2022 special edition, part one
If your thread (or your student’s, or your colleague’s) is missing below, submissions are as always extremely welcome.
Editions from prior years are here.
As written last year: Plausibly these JMP editions have the highest densities of good content of all the newsletters. These are presented in even less of a sense of any order than usual.
Meta threads: women; theory; spatial; religion and culture
Job market papers
How does FDA regulation affect innovation and market concentration? #EconTwitter
In my JMP, I show that deregulation:
-⬆️innovation by as much as 400%
-⬆️firm entry by 1000%
-⬇️prices by 40%.
In some cases, deregulation drives product safety innovation.
More details:
Having a kid reduces female employment and wages, unfortunately. What can prevent this?
Research from @martinauccioli and L. Ciasullo answers:
The (legally protected) ability to ask for a regular work schedule decreases the child penalty by 15%
martinaucc.github.io/martinauccioli…
In my job market paper, I use data on >1/4 million college applicants and a regression discontinuity design to show that admission to research universities impacts students’ partisanship and voter turnout 10+ years after applying for college. #EconTwitter
^graph:
Daniel Firoozi @DanielFiroozi
Hi #EconTwitter! I'm an applied microeconomist on the #EconJobMarket in 2022-23. I study the economics of charity and public good provision. Here's a JMP 🧵. The full draft can be found at stephanie-a-karol.com/research, along with links to other work. (1/9)
This paper uses Form 990 data to estimate within-charity elasticities of charitable giving & fundraising to political contributions by large, individual donors. Using an IV strategy, it estimates an elasticity of private charitable giving to political giving of -0.079. (3/9)
Why does the recent rise in patent filings not track with productivity growth?
Because the average creativity of patents (as measured by novel combinations of technical keywords) has been declining for decades.
Have you ever wondered whether higher education can be an important driver of growth in developing countries?
My job market paper tries to answer this question by looking at a national expansion of higher ed in Vietnam.
Over 100 new universities were opened during 2006-2013!
🚨Job Market Paper Alert🚨
My coauthors and I estimate effects of peers and dorms on academic outcomes at UW-Madison.
We lack:
Complete info on assignment determinants
Complete info on assignment mechanisms
We have:
A random tiebreaker lottery number
Our wits
This is enough!
Full paper: clintmharrisecon.github.io/mywebsite/Peer…
We find that living in fully-gender-integrated dorms (opposite sex next-door neighbors) increases 4-year grad rates by 10pp for men. We find that STEM roommates increase 4 year grad rates 8pp more for other STEM students than for non-STEM.
