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.
personal.lse.ac.uk
8:57 PM · Apr 13, 2022
31 Reposts · 149 Likes
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
6:03 AM · Apr 11, 2022
1 Repost · 9 Likes
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.com
EVALUATING RESEARCH
7:30 PM · Apr 14, 2022
12 Reposts · 54 Likes
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-…
3:00 PM · Apr 11, 2022
67 Reposts · 202 Likes
^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.ly
How Much Do Early Teachers Matter? | CALDER
1:56 PM · Apr 12, 2022
10 Reposts · 24 Likes
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
1:05 PM · Apr 14, 2022
37 Reposts · 154 Likes
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
11:36 PM · Apr 13, 2022
68 Reposts · 238 Likes
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
4:35 PM · Apr 15, 2022
22 Reposts · 122 Likes
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?
5:07 PM · Apr 15, 2022
241 Reposts · 1.59K Likes
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
6:13 PM · Apr 16, 2022
55 Reposts · 324 Likes
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/
3:32 PM · Apr 15, 2022
2.71K Reposts · 13.4K Likes
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.
2:01 PM · Apr 14, 2022
66 Reposts · 550 Likes
^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.
1:50 PM · Apr 11, 2022
9 Reposts · 253 Likes
Eddie Dekel@eddiedekel
new to twitter--signed on and decided it's probably another way to waste time; back to work now
12:49 PM · May 2, 2009
Just curious -- what are your thoughts on Musk and Twitter? Since you yourself are trying sieve through the noise.
By the way, this is gold. Glad I bumped into it. Thanks for your work!