Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 4, 2021

Apr 05, 2021

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Thanks to those sharing suggestions, over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Paper summary threads

Matt Clancy@mattsclancy

🧵on a great paper. Identifies thousands of cases simultaneous discovery (different scientists, same discovery) and looks at what’s associated with a decision to commercialize. Two important ones: interdisciplinarity and prior collaboration with an entrepreneurial scientist.

Matt Marx @marxmatt

open-access 🚨 article out this week in ManSci: "Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Commercialization of Academic Science." joint w/David Hsu, and only possible thanks to programming & data crosswalks from @AndyContigiani @startupecon @KRoyMyers 🙏/1 https://t.co/btDfwaoJvT

3:02 PM · Apr 3, 2021

1 Repost · 16 Likes

Tom Stafford@tomstafford

Preprint - 162 researchers (73 teams) - data: six questions from the International Social Survey Programme - hypothesis: whether immigration reduces public support for social policies - results: massive variation, not predicted by researcher skills or beliefs

5:35 AM · Mar 31, 2021

45 Reposts · 125 Likes

Amanda Agan@AmandaYAgan

New working paper!! “Misdemeanor Prosecution” w @jenniferdoleac and @annalilharvey nber.org/papers/w28600

12:16 PM · Mar 29, 2021

186 Reposts · 452 Likes

^“*not* prosecuting non-violent misdemeanors dramatically *reduces* recidivism without increasing local crime rates”, thread

Max Roser@MaxCRoser

This just got published and is very good. A new study that asks: How has extreme poverty changed in the last 2 centuries? The authors estimate poverty in many ways. Their main innovation is to rely on 'a cost of basic needs approach' based on Bob Allen’s recent work. 👇 thread

12:13 PM · Apr 1, 2021

324 Reposts · 843 Likes

Ricardo Reis@R2Rsquared

During my Lamfalussy fellowship at the @BIS_org, I wrote a paper for its annual conference on “The constraint on public debt when r < g but g < m”. A short thread on economic policy implications from the paper. (Ungated at bit.ly/3m2BmOX) 1/14

cepr.org

Centre for Economic Policy Research

11:22 AM · Mar 29, 2021

64 Reposts · 207 Likes

Otis Reid@otis_reid

Interesting story about a prison gang reducing violence by essentially creating a parallel set of rules and justice system

IPA @poverty_action

.@BigBigBLessing explains one gang started in prison for self-protection after a prison massacre by guards ended up with over 30,000 members all over Brazil https://t.co/cNssc6NTAG https://t.co/PD0qDRwkyd

3:47 PM · Mar 31, 2021

7 Likes

Jason We Need 6 Million Shots a Day Kerwin@jt_kerwin

The final version of our paper is now out as an NBER WP! I updated my blog post about it here: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/202… Short on time? Here’s a quick tweetstorm about what we did & what we found. We started with a question: why would you ask your employer not to pay you yet? 1/N

NBER @nberpubs

Allowing workers to defer their wages proves popular and facilitates asset purchases. The demand for this simple form of savings is partly because it addresses self-control issues, from @lassebrune, @EricChyn, and @jt_kerwin https://t.co/TiMt7DRq0R https://t.co/Dam0D5yzJg

6:23 PM · Apr 1, 2021

8 Reposts · 30 Likes

Thomas Drechsel@td_econ

In a nutshell... Savings of low-income HH -> bank deposits -> bank loans -> small firms Savings of high-income HH -> stock market -> big firms Relatively more income in hands of high-income HH -> small firms have fewer resources & create fewer jobs relative to big firms

1:11 PM · Apr 1, 2021

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Mishel Ghassibe@mickey_gb

🎉Publication Alert🎉 Extremely proud and excited to announce that my master's thesis "Monetary Policy and Production Networks: an Empirical Investigation" is forthcoming in the Journal of Monetary Economics! 🔗bit.ly/3m1r1CG 🧵Thread on key findings