Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 10, 2022 [1/2]

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.

This is part one of two. Part two is here.

Paper summary threads

Vincent Pons @VinPons

Our event study shows a sharp change in voter turnout after the move. Using a value-added model including voter, state, and election fixed effects, we find that state characteristics explain about 37% of the cross-state variation in turnout (5/9).

Kirby Nielsen (🇺🇦) @KirbyKNielsen

Very thrilled :) You like a choice rule/but then you violate it./Was it a mistake?

AEA Journals @AEAjournals

Forthcoming in the AER: "When Choices Are Mistakes" by Kirby Nielsen and John Rehbeck. https://t.co/0FcMSswpjo

Caleb Watney @calebwatney

A randomized experiment used YouTube advertising to show clips of Trump encouraging people to get vaccinated across 103 counties from Oct 14 - 31 and estimates it was able to boost uptake at the cost of about $1 per vaccine.

Florian Ederer @florianederer

The largest cartel price fixing case involved Teva Pharmaceuticals and several other generic drug makers. The cartel raised prices and profits which in turn encouraged entry. But regulatory approvals delayed most entrants by 2-4 years! nber.org/papers/w29886

Andrew Goodman-Hummus @agoodmanbacon

Macroeconomists are doing some wicked data entry recently. Three examples I’ve seen probably in the last month alone:

Natalia Emanuel @NataliaHEmanuel

Spoilers: 1) Male bus and train operators "game" the system more, taking overtime hours to more than make up for unpaid time off. Female operators take 45% fewer hours of overtime and 83% more hours of unpaid time off.

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky

Absolutely fascinating paper. Using a sibling-pair-matched design, researchers using 100% of the population of Sweden and Finland find that ***60%*** of below-replacement fertility is explained simply by prevalence of mental illness.

medrxiv.orgThe relationship of major diseases with childlessness: a sibling matched case-control and population register study in Finland and SwedenBackground Approximately 20% of men and 15% of women remain childless at the end of their reproductive lifespan, with childlessness increasing over time, yet we lack a comprehensive understanding of the role and relative importance of diseases associated with childlessness, particularly among men.…

Emily Nix @EmilyNix100

Delighted to have @MatthewStaiger out to present @USCMarshall this week about the intergenerational transmission of employers and the impacts on mobility. Graph below shows high proportion of working for father at first job, but more so for those born to wealthier parents. [1/2]

Christopher Clarke @EconChrisClarke

Postal Service Expansion in 19th Century fostered patent development. @DrDaronAcemoglu Jacob Moscona, and James A. Robinson. 2016. "State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century." AER Gif Credit: @historying

Public goods

Daniel Pailañir @DanielPailanir

Synthetic Difference-in-Differences for Stata!!! 🤩 Install from the command line in Stata typing: ssc install sdid Please @AsjadNaqvi @KhoaVuUmn #EconTwitter spread the voice😊 [1/6]

Jared Colston @jared_colston

Hey all, I’ve created a new command in @Stata to create waffle charts! It’s available on SSC with -ssc install waffle-. This program builds on the excellent foundation in @AsjadNaqvi’s Stata Guide. A short thread on its’ uses 1/11

IAmSciComm - Shiz Aoki @iamscicomm

For anyone who's spent way too long creating posters in PPT at 4000% zoom🔎😭 BioRender Poster Builder is officially launched! Magically resize columns, customize colors, vector export, and more🙌🏽 It's free to use and currently in beta. Lmk your thoughts! app.biorender.com/#new-poster

Interesting discussions

Dmitry (Dima) Sorokin 🇺🇦 @binaryw0r1d

Yesterday marked a year since I joined Upwork. Leaving academia was not easy: I am an economist to my bones, and I feared to be too academic for the private sector (yet not academic enough for academia, as my PhD time had shown). My fears turned out to be completely false. 🧵1/8

Mohammad Akbarpour @akbarpour_

Admits days are becoming an arms race. There are now schools with 2.5 admit days! Why don’t we abolish them? Admits should go read professors’ & their students’ papers. And placements. We need a “rating system” for PhD programs, where students rate their experience. That’s it.