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Apr 3, 2023
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Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

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David Wessel @davidmwessel
I posted this striking chart from Yongseok Shin that underscores how much employment by sector has not returned to pre-pandemic patterns. I got lots of questions. Some answers. A thread. #BPEA @BrookingsInst
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4:06 PM ∙ Apr 1, 2023
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^see also (though not a paper):

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage
This is interesting. The goods share of spending is stagnating a bit, rather than reverting back to pre pandemic levels. In turn, this is maybe contributing to ongoing demand and hence inflationary pressures on goods vs services.
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Council of Economic Advisers @WhiteHouseCEA
Nominal growth in services spending outpaced growth in goods spending. Therefore, the services share of consumption rose slightly in February. The goods share still remains substantially elevated relative to pre-pandemic norms. 6/ https://t.co/xeqsncyKqZ
2:49 PM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Council of Economic Advisers @WhiteHouseCEA
Nominal growth in services spending outpaced growth in goods spending. Therefore, the services share of consumption rose slightly in February. The goods share still remains substantially elevated relative to pre-pandemic norms. 6/
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1:35 PM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Paper summaries

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Spencer Barnes @SpencerBarnes99
Did you know that financial constraints by ethnicity can contribute to disparities in wealth and access to geographic opportunities? @arpitrage, @ChrisHansman, and @pgmabille uncover a racial leverage gap in new work: Black borrowers are given higher loan-to-value ratios.
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7:49 PM ∙ Mar 28, 2023
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Anna Tuchman @tuchmanna
Excited to share that our research on the pink tax has been accepted for publication at Marketing Science! See @jasonfurman’s nice thread on our findings and you can check out the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Jason Furman @jasonfurman
Preparing for class and just learned that the "pink tax" seems to be a myth. Identical (or nearly identical) goods marketed to women are, if anything, slightly cheaper on average than when marketed to men--contrary to this graphic and many more like it. https://t.co/gtxojAujUd https://t.co/T1U8vZfSQH
8:58 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Mark Koyama @MarkKoyama
Very happy that "The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe" w @desireedesierto has been accepted at the Journal of Economic History.
8:22 PM ∙ Mar 29, 2023
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Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA
"Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium" in Econometrica is what it sounds like: integrating forward-looking capital accumulation into a dynamic discrete choice model...of migration. Let's go: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/EC…
3:07 PM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage
A full draft now of the paper by Dan Stackman and Erica Moszkowski on downward nominal rigidity in retail leases. Vacancy and rents are *positively* correlated in Manhattan. Their story: debt covenants restrict rent reductions. @jeffrlin dstackman.github.io/files/stackman…
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2:16 AM ∙ Mar 29, 2023
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Manuel Grieder @manuel_grieder
Publication alert! 🥳 Very happy that our paper on “Strategic Competition and Self-Confidence” with Stefanie Brilon, @SimonaGrassi and @Jfschulz has found a home and is forthcoming at Management Science (@INFORMS) pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128… 1/n
1:21 PM ∙ Mar 29, 2023
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury
Most people in most countries think climate change is a problem, understand what causes it, and want to tackle it. Awareness is *not* any longer the main barrier to climate action. Important work by ⁦@S_Stantcheva⁩ & coauthors at #EfIP conference today
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1:40 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Andrea Fazio @AndreaFazio19
Using data from @usociety, we show that the #IceBucketChallenge increased the prob of donating and the amount of money donated among small donors. We also find an effect on #volunteering and #trust, suggesting that such campaigns might have a broader impact on prosocial behavior
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10:30 AM ∙ Mar 28, 2023
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James Robert Evans @J_R_Evans
Yesterday I presented some of my thesis research at #EHS2023 – here is a *very* brief overview of some of the things I said:
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6:01 PM ∙ Apr 1, 2023
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Gert Peersman @GertPeersman
We have used bank-transaction data of 930.000 Belgian households (almost 20% of the population) to examine the evolution of energy expenditures. The results are striking… given that Belgium has a system of automatic wage indexation. A thread 1/n
7:33 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Donald Schneider @DonFSchneider
Another study, this time at BPEA, finding the IRA's green credits could cost $1.2 trillion between now and 2031 or up to $2 trillion through 2040. Well above the advertised cost of ~$400 billion. So IRA will go down as a large deficit expansion bill brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
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5:04 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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^Matt Yglesias: “Some people see this as a bad thing, but the news that the IRA may induce much more clean energy than forecasted by the CBO is actually good”

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John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1
"War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party" cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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1:08 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt
I've been rather inactive on here lately and have so many new results to share! I'll try to slowly get caught up. First, a new graph! 1/n
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4:17 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Ethan BdM @ethanbdm
My paper with @soashworth and Chris Berry on "Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation" is now available on Early View @AJPSEditor. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/
2:26 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Alexander Kriwoluzky @econ_stardust
🚨 🚨 New paper alert 🚨 🚨 Joint work with @gokhanider @FrederikKurcz @schumann_b Can the ECB fight high energy prices? Yes, they can! There even is an energy-price channel of (European) monetary policy A short 🧵with the highlights: 1/6
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8:33 AM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Tejas Subramaniam @TejasReal
Factory farming might be the world’s largest negative externality. Kuruc and McFadden (2023) make an attempt to “monetize the externalities of animal agriculture,” accounting for its direct effects on animal welfare. I wanna apply their method to eggs 1/
link.springer.comMonetizing the externalities of animal agriculture: insights from an inclusive welfare function - Social Choice and WelfareAnimal agriculture encompasses global markets with large externalities from animal welfare and greenhouse gas emissions. We formally study these social costs by embedding an animal inclusive social welfare function into a climate-economy model that includes an agricultural sector. The total external…
5:52 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Tejas Subramaniam @TejasReal
Englander et al. (2023) have an interesting new paper about China’s fuel subsidy for its fishing fleet, trying to find out how much additional subsidies affect hours spent fishing, as well as whether fishing occurs at all. A thread! 1/
nber.orgInput Subsidies and the Destruction of Natural Capital: Chinese Distant Water FishingFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
8:29 AM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Tejas Subramaniam @TejasReal
Basu (2005) argued that an imperfectly enforced child labor ban (which fines firms for hiring children, say) might end up increasing child labor, and some recent empirical research seems to back his argument 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
10:01 AM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Christoph Trebesch @Ch_Trebesch
📢New paper on China's role in global finance and the difficulties of the Belt and Road. Sebastian Horn, @carmenmreinhart, Brad Parks and I show that China has created a new global system of rescue lending to countries in debt distress (large bailouts) 👇This is what we find, a🧵
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11:29 AM ∙ Mar 28, 2023
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Journal of Public Economics @JPubEcon
Higher wages may attract low-skilled individuals and reduce crime ... ... but when the min wage increases, property crime GOES up! A $15 nat'l min wage would generate 300K+ extra larcenies. Likely driven by job losses caused by min wage increases.
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4:23 PM ∙ Mar 27, 2023
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