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Apr 18, 2022
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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 four.

Paper summary threads

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Saloni @salonium
There was a pretty major finding last month that many people don't know about. bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/… Water treatment (eg chlorination) was found to reduce child mortality by 30%. A very cheap & effective way to save lives. 1/
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8:41 PM ∙ Apr 17, 2022
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Javier Bianchi @JavierBianchi7
🧵New paper w/ @cesarspa1 Following the invasion of Ukraine, Russia's international reserves were frozen. However, Russia was still allowed to tap reserves for bond payments On April 4, the US Treasury blocked all payments and Russia failed to meet the dollar obligations
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1:19 PM ∙ Apr 17, 2022
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^see also: “Economists for Ukraine”

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Todd Schoellman @todd_schoellman
The UK has a new migration policy that offers an easy path for grads of global top colleges. What should we expect? Should other countries copy? Paolo Martellini, Jason Sockin and I have developed measures of the human capital of college grads & migrants from world's colleges:
1:01 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022
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Journal of Public Economics @JPubEcon
Dietary change is unusual, even in response to significant disease diagnosis or changes in household circumstances. But: when households do change, they tend to change a small subset of food items at a time.
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8:02 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022
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Piotr Lewandowski @ptrlewandowski
New paper🚨 Using a discrete choice experiment with 10,000+ workers in 🇵🇱, we find a significant willingness to pay for #workingfromhome, especially for 2-3 days a week, and among workers who perceive COVID as a threat, women, and those with long commutes ibs.org.pl/en/publication…
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11:21 AM ∙ Apr 13, 2022
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Public goods

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Elaine Liu @ElaineLiuEcon
#econtwitter Would like to compile a list of summer internship opportunities for econ PhD students. Let me start here: Microsoft, Amazon, various regional Fed. Please reply to expand the list! Thanks.
7:20 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022
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Asjad Naqvi @AsjadNaqvi
Dropping a new @Stata package "bimap" for #bivariate #maps: ssc install bimap, replace and then simply: bimap vary varx using shapefile, cut(option) palette(option) Check it out!! #dataviz #Stataviz
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1:14 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022
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Jim Savage @abiylfoyp
John Stachurski and Tom Sargent's new book on Economic Networks looks incredible.
networks.quantecon.orgEconomic Networks: Theory and Computation
12:33 AM ∙ Apr 15, 2022
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Nicholas Valentino @nvalenti11
Data released today make combining the General Social Survey (GSS) and American National Election Studies (ANES) possible for the first time. Congrats to the fantastic ANES/GSS staff. A gold mine for social scientists.
electionstudies.orgANES-GSS 2020 Joint Study - ANES | American National Election Studies
5:21 PM ∙ Apr 15, 2022
457Likes116Retweets
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Antonin Bergeaud @a_bergeaud
🚨 New public data alert🚨 📢Today with @CyrilVerluise we are happy to (finally) release the 1st public version of PatentCity ❓ We extracted info on inventors and assignees in all patents 🌎Coverage: all utility patents released by the US, UK, FR and DE patent office Thread ⤵️
10:37 AM ∙ Apr 17, 2022
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Interesting discussions

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Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur
The IMF inched closer to becoming a regular development bank today -- to the annoyance of almost everyone it seems. imf.org/en/News/Articl… 1/
12:37 AM ∙ Apr 14, 2022
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Chris McMaster @DrCMcMaster
Academic papers should all be submitted to a single preprint server and then journals should have to compete on who gets to publish. Submitting to one journal at a time is a waste of everyone's time and energy.
11:47 PM ∙ Apr 16, 2022
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Donna Hoffman @profhoff
Opinions of ⁦@AMA_Marketing⁩ proposal to regularize marketing recruiting? Smart to ditch hotel room interviews - always a bit awk, if not downright sketchy. Going virtual for first round in late Sep-early Oct so much better for students & schools!
ama.orgRecommended Guidelines on the Academic Job Market Beginning 2022AMA recommends moving the job market from Summer to Fall starting in 2022 The AMA Academic Council seeks to understand and support the evolving needs relating to the Marketing PhD Job Market. To do so, we have conducted focus groups, interviews, and surveys, in cooperation with other marketing acade…
3:32 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022
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Tyler Ransom @tyleransom
I just finished a 6-week program with @mileskimball based on the book "Positive Intelligence" by @ShirzadPQ. The program outlines a set of habits—similar to mindfulness—to help you always be "in the zone" and not sabotaged by stress, anxiety, over-ambition, etc.
9:26 PM ∙ Apr 14, 2022
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John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff
I’ve read several empirical papers in recent days where neither the abstract nor the intro actually tell me what the papers find. They both said “We then discuss our results” without saying what they are.
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2:04 AM ∙ Apr 14, 2022
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