Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 28, 2022 [2/4]
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This is part two of four.
Paper summaries
Christian Wolf@ChristianKWolf
@AlisdairMcKay and I recently posted an updated version of our paper on time-series regressions and macro policy rule counterfactuals. My attempt at a summary 🧵
NBER @nberpubs
How to use empirical evidence on policy shocks to predict the effects of changes in systematic policy rules, from @ChristianKWolf and @alisdairmckay https://t.co/o5AyOC9yGu https://t.co/deeLWBKUr9
12:48 PM · Aug 22, 2022
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^👀
Anna Stansbury@annastansbury
South Korea's fertility rate once again breaks (its own) world record low.
Last month, @KarenDynan, @jacobkirkegaard and I put out a @PIIE working paper on gender dynamics in the South Korean labor market, which we argue are strongly linked to what's going on with fertility. 🧵
Alec Stapp @AlecStapp
South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century. https://t.co/DfhROdQRpi
12:42 PM · Aug 24, 2022
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Aine McCarthy@ainesmccarthy
Our study on the effect of large families on literacy and numeracy in Bangladesh in the mid-90s is now out in the Journal of Development Studies. An #EconTwitter 🧵:
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
tandfonline.com
Multiplying Siblings: Exploring the Trade-off Between Family Size and Child Education in Rural Bangladesh
4:39 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Aine McCarthy@ainesmccarthy
We also reject so-called quality-quantity trade-off. In fact, we find a ➕ effect of add’l sibs on reading, writing, addition, and mult. skills. 0 effect on enrollment, so we call this pos effect the sibling-learning-spillover. It is greater for girls, and for younger children.
5:35 PM · Aug 26, 2022
6 Reposts · 8 Likes
Robert Inklaar@RobertInklaar
Research, jointly with Rob Feenstra (@ucdavis) and @albertocavallo (@HarvardHBS) is forthcoming! We show how to compare a broader measure of welfare that accounts for differences in product variety and trade costs and implement it for 47 countries.
AEA Journals @AEAjournals
Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries" by Alberto Cavallo, Robert C. Feenstra, and Robert Inklaar. https://t.co/ajeymrQHKf
2:55 PM · Aug 24, 2022
3 Reposts · 13 Likes
Women in Empirical Micro
Seems like @WiEMecon @BeckerFriedman encouraged participants to live tweet conference presentations, which is a great public good: many papers scattered throughout this week’s edition
Jeanne Sorin@jenn_slg
1/n Continuing @WiEMecon today, @Jaeheeasy presents her very impressive JMP on The Effects of Zoning in US Housing Markets. She is starting at Boulder as a AP!
jaeheesong.com
5:16 PM · Aug 27, 2022
39 Reposts · 183 Likes
Shosh Vasserman@shoshievass
Day 2 of the @WiEMecon conference starts with @LauraBoudreau of @Columbia_Biz on monitoring harassment in organizations
dropbox.com/s/lt0r4jgeovuh…
1:44 PM · Aug 27, 2022
2 Reposts · 19 Likes
Minseon Park@MinseonPark1
Next: @pauliecalvo presenting "The Effects of Institutional Gaps Between Marriage and Cohabitation"
This paper studies the distributional consequences of counterfactual policies that treat marriage and cohabitation similarly
(paulacalvo.net/publication/pc…)
8:31 PM · Aug 27, 2022
1 Repost · 6 Likes
Lillian Rusk@LillianRusk
We’re also super lucky to have Maria Balgova here to tell us about her work with Abi Adams-Prassl and Matthias Qian, “Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs: Evidence from Job Vacancy Data”
10:42 PM · Aug 26, 2022
1 Repost · 4 Likes
Maya Lozinski@MayaLozinski
(1/7) New paper presented at @WiEMecon! "Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India" presented by @BancalariA.
9:39 PM · Aug 26, 2022
2 Reposts · 5 Likes
Lillian Rusk@LillianRusk
We have Christina Brown in the building presenting her work with Tahir Andrabi on “Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity.”
8:59 PM · Aug 26, 2022
4 Reposts · 23 Likes
Maya Lozinski@MayaLozinski
(1/8) New paper presented at @WiEMecon! "Can Health Insurance Expansions Cause the Supply Side to Contract?" from Molly Schnell and @eilidh_geddes.
5:28 PM · Aug 27, 2022
1 Repost · 5 Likes
Jeanne Sorin@jenn_slg
In the paper, @krhwagner and @HawkinsPierot ask: How do prices of energy today affect the path of carbon emissions in the future? More ambitiously: Does the lack of carbon pricing today mitigate the effectiveness of future carbon pricing?
Bonus: + Channels
7:08 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Vageesha Bainwala@vagbain
With online markets becoming the new norm, firms are changing their process of exercising market power. Adi Shany from @TelAvivUni discusses how service times instead of prices are becoming the important variable.
@WiEMecon @BeckerFriedman
7:31 PM · Aug 27, 2022
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Nicole Holz@NicoleOzm
Credit scores are a controversial topic, for many good reasons! This paper focuses on the alternative and asks: what happens in a world without credit scores?
9:59 PM · Aug 26, 2022
1 Repost · 2 Likes
Jeanne Sorin@jenn_slg
1/n Now at @WiEMecon, @maricaibox does a tour de force and combines waste and ML tools to show us why all municipalities should adopt Pay As you Throw Regimes in "Policy evaluation of waste pricing programs using heterogeneous causal effect estimation"
arxiv.org/pdf/2010.01105…
8:51 PM · Aug 26, 2022
6 Reposts · 11 Likes
Jeanne Sorin@jenn_slg
1/n Continuing the amazing climate research afternoon at @WiEMecon with @SenIshita1 looking at the perverse effect of state regulation on across-state subsidies of climate risk, in a great paper “Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance” with @plausiblyexog and @ateneked
8:22 PM · Aug 26, 2022
3 Reposts · 6 Likes