Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 28, 2022 [2/4]
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.
This is part two of four.
Paper summaries
@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
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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
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…
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.
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
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
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
Day 2 of the @WiEMecon conference starts with @LauraBoudreau of @Columbia_Biz on monitoring harassment in organizations
dropbox.com/s/lt0r4jgeovuh…
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…)
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”
(1/7) New paper presented at @WiEMecon! "Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India" presented by @BancalariA.
We have Christina Brown in the building presenting her work with Tahir Andrabi on “Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity.”
(1/8) New paper presented at @WiEMecon! "Can Health Insurance Expansions Cause the Supply Side to Contract?" from Molly Schnell and @eilidh_geddes.
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
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
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?
