Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 10, 2022 [1/2]
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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).
12:04 PM · Apr 5, 2022
11 Likes
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
7:05 PM · Apr 6, 2022
27 Reposts · 370 Likes
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.
3:40 PM · Apr 5, 2022
58 Reposts · 429 Likes
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
11:04 PM · Apr 8, 2022
20 Reposts · 100 Likes
Andrew Goodman-Hummus@agoodmanbacon
Macroeconomists are doing some wicked data entry recently. Three examples I’ve seen probably in the last month alone:
7:30 PM · Apr 5, 2022
59 Reposts · 388 Likes
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.
1:28 PM · Apr 5, 2022
1 Repost · 29 Likes
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.org
The relationship of major diseases with childlessness: a sibling matched case-control and population register study in Finland and Sweden
6:10 AM · Apr 5, 2022
131 Reposts · 608 Likes
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]
7:20 PM · Apr 3, 2022
15 Reposts · 88 Likes
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
1:55 PM · Apr 2, 2022
4 Reposts · 10 Likes
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]
4:08 PM · Apr 5, 2022
225 Reposts · 1.06K Likes
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
5:17 PM · Apr 8, 2022
67 Reposts · 484 Likes
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
4:10 PM · Apr 7, 2022
2.01K Reposts · 8.14K Likes
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
1:03 PM · Apr 6, 2022
78 Reposts · 868 Likes
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.
3:26 AM · Apr 5, 2022
2 Reposts · 57 Likes