Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 17, 2022 [4/4]

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 four of four.

Paper summary threads

Ricardo Reis @R2Rsquared

Jens Hilscher, Alon Raviv, and I have released our new working paper "How likely is an inflation disaster?" It shows how to use option prices to back out the market's perceived probability of a 5-year-5-year high-inflation or deflation disaster.

Per Engzell 🇺🇦 @pengzell

Countries differ importantly in the peer environments students face. In England and Sweden, both comprehensive systems, friendships are less segregated by achievement. More so in tracked systems. 3/4

Kirby Nielsen (🇺🇦) @KirbyKNielsen

I know #EconTwitter has lots of opinions about peer review, so check out this website evalresearch.weebly.com A team of economists surveyed ~1500 economists to collect experiences with peer review (supply and demand). 1/

evalresearch.weebly.comEVALUATING RESEARCHAs researchers, we spend a significant amount of time writing papers and refereeing for peer-reviewed journals. These activities are closely interconnected: if we want to improve how we produce...

Andy Hall @ahall_research

State legislatures are critical policymaking bodies and the main pipeline of candidates to national office. In our new paper, we show how state legislative elections may help fuel state and national polarization… stanforddpl.org/papers/handan-…

^still begging for ‘best of polisci/sociology twitter’ newsletters

Dan Goldhaber @CEDR_US

Our (Zeyu Jin, @ProfitOfEd) @caldercenter working paper on the importance (or fade out) of early-grade teachers just went up: bit.ly/3rjn1RT This paper was challenging to do because of the econometrics and necessary data structure. Want to know more? 👇 (1/5)

bit.lyHow Much Do Early Teachers Matter? | CALDER

Reinhold Kesler @reinholdkesler

📢NEW WORKING PAPER📢 How did Apple’s privacy change affect app monetization? Comparing over half a million apps on Apple with Google’s Play Store, I find that the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) brings back paid apps and reinforces the trend towards in-app payments. 1/7

Stan Veuger @stanveuger

Let me highlight this figure from our paper — it shows the urban wage premium, after housing costs, for college (blue) and non-college (red) workers. For non-college workers it crashed between 1970 and 2000 and has turned into a housing-included urban wage penalty since.

Philip Hoxie 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @phoxie58

🧵1/ I’m very excited to share a recently updated @AEIecon paper, with @stanveuger and Danny Shoag, where we explore the evolving relationship in the US between wages, housing costs, migration, skills, and density from 1970 to 2019. Link: https://t.co/DlRdonI5oR https://t.co/uyuZ6ukQ3b

Jesse Rothstein @rothstein_jesse

My recent paper with Card and Yi indicates that the *causal* urban wage premium in the 2010-18 period is the same for college and non-college workers -- that the difference between the red and blue lines here is entirely driven by differential sorting. eml.berkeley.edu/~jrothst/worki…

Stan Veuger @stanveuger

Let me highlight this figure from our paper — it shows the urban wage premium, after housing costs, for college (blue) and non-college (red) workers. For non-college workers it crashed between 1970 and 2000 and has turned into a housing-included urban wage penalty since. https://t.co/CpWC3u3Zcq https://t.co/Xw2qMfxbPB

Interesting discussions

Mariacristina De Nardi @M_De_Nardi

I am working on improving my students’ economics writing. Question: in your opinion, what are the best *written* economic academic papers? One pick that comes to my mind: Lucas “On the mechanics of Economic development”? What do you think?

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

These are some of the general writing tips I gave CEA staff, they're probably broadly applicable to much writing by economists. cc: @mark_zientek @KenAbante

Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir

Slides are visual aids that assist your presentation. Anytime you put something on your slides, its primary purpose is to help the *audience*, not you. Nothing should distract from your verbal presentation, it should only enhance it. A mini-presentation on slide design. 1/

Andrew Foote @AFoote_Econ

Grad students: make yourself a website. The first thing I do when I am asked to be a discussant is to look everyone up because I am always interested in seeing new people! Advisors: tell your grad students to make a website.

^tips

Steve Hou (“CONSUME LESS!”) @stevehouf

Econ PhD students do yourselves a favor and get on Twitter. More than anything it helps you build confidence that all the profs you are terrified of are just normal human beings. They may ask you really tough questions in seminars, but they prob don’t know what’s going on either.

Eddie Dekel @eddiedekel

new to twitter--signed on and decided it's probably another way to waste time; back to work now