Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 15, 2021 [2/2]
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 two of two, this week; part one is here.
Paper summary threads
Levi Boxell@levi_boxell
Excited to release a new version of our paper, "Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization", with more data!
We've added three new countries and added additional survey years for existing countries.
4:38 PM · Aug 10, 2021
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Jura Liaukonyte@JuraWho
Let’s take an Apple iPhone ad as an example. First, the ad airs in EST in a popular TV show. We see a spike in searches coming from IP addresses in EST, but we do not see anything like that coming from the IP addresses in PST. 3 hours later, the pattern is flipped.
7:22 PM · Aug 11, 2021
1 Repost · 18 Likes
John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1
What happened when CA banned race-based affirmative action at public universities in 1998?
The wages of minorities in their 20s-30s declined as a direct result.
"Banning affirmative action exacerbates socioeconomic inequities."
Forth @QJEHarvard: zacharybleemer.com/wp-content/upl…
1:20 PM · Aug 13, 2021
76 Reposts · 235 Likes
Dustin Rumbaugh@econwithdustin
We find a "hangover effects" of reduced Monday labor hours of ~2/3 of an hour with most of that time lost before noon.
Also identified are "happy hour effects"-reduced Friday labor hours on football Fridays. Magnitudes are similar w/ effects driven by afternoon reductions. 2/4
2:32 PM · Aug 12, 2021
6 Likes
Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon
Using detailed data on Norwegian candidates and their use of mass and social media in recent elections, the authors show that (1) candidate quality increases with list rank, and (2) candidates in safer ranks shift from intra-district to extra-district media exposure.
7:09 PM · Aug 9, 2021
1 Repost · 1 Like
John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1
White males are consistently overrepresented as characters in children's books.
nber.org/papers/w29123
1:48 PM · Aug 9, 2021
71 Reposts · 238 Likes
Douglas Irwin@D_A_Irwin
Brief summary of this new paper with Anson Soderbery
Q: how did US set tariffs when unconstrained by trade agreements? Impose optimal tariffs on terms of trade grounds? On behalf of special interests? Or in public interest?
Hard to know bc GATT has been around a long time!
NBER @nberpubs
US tariffs largely reflect political economy factors (firm and worker lobbies) rather than terms of trade considerations, when unconstrained by international trade agreements (pre-GATT period), from @D_A_Irwin and Anson Soderbery https://t.co/a9EyrvqEqE https://t.co/HxBgbQDAxo
3:46 PM · Aug 9, 2021
12 Reposts · 42 Likes
More: how fast do technologies grow; edtech interventions in LMIC; pricing eurobonds; extending the OTJ search model; music mood and stocks
Public goods
Sasha Indarte@SashaIndarte
‼️ new data alert ‼️
Hey #econtwitter! Sharing the dataset I built on bankruptcy exemptions. Exemptions are a key policy lever governing the amount of debt relief bankruptcy offers households. Access here: sashaindarte.github.io/public_goods/ (1/n)
sashaindarte.github.io
Sasha Indarte - Public Goods
3:59 PM · Aug 15, 2021
60 Reposts · 265 Likes
More: stata binsreg update
Interesting discussions
Jon Fiva@JFiva
For applied economics, @Stata is still the only game in town. AEJ:applied (@AEAjournals) hasn't published a paper *without* @Stata replication code since July'19.
10:32 AM · Aug 9, 2021
131 Reposts · 595 Likes
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
Has been great to talk to students on the market — you're doing super interesting work and should reach out if you want to chat.
Three general comments I've noticed which may help you frame your work.
1. Contribution, not just motivation.
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage
If you're going on the market this fall with a real estate JMP (or something else you think might be relevant to my research) — reach out and we can schedule a quick Zoom call to discuss.
Can't promise to read paper in depth, but happy to chat.
6:53 PM · Aug 10, 2021
17 Reposts · 90 Likes
Vlad Chituc@VladChituc
Oh my god so apparently prolific recently went viral on TikTok and that would be the funniest possible explanation for the weird gender breakdown of everyone's recent studies
from: https://t.co/4e3YwQ3YRw
Vlad Chituc @VladChituc
does anyone in psychology twitter know what's going on here? I just checked through all the Prolific studies I've run over the last few weeks and nearly all of them have <10% male participants (highest % was 7 out of 60). https://t.co/t44Au70wW5
8:52 PM · Aug 12, 2021
99 Reposts · 336 Likes
^see also, on Prolific vs. MTurk
Chris Blattman@cblatts
I have a UK edition of Why We Fight! You can preorder at this link.
Also, a short thread on what I learned about covers, rights, and publishing in the British market.
penguin.co.uk
Why We Fight
11:35 PM · Aug 10, 2021
7 Reposts · 30 Likes
Alex Tabarrok@ATabarrok
Great thread.
tl;dr Clever Econ 101 analysis suggested that war on opium poppy in Afghanistan would mostly raise prices to farmers not reduce quantity and divert production to Taliban controlled regions increasing their tax revenues and power--and that is what happened.
Jeffrey P. Clemens @jeffreypclemens
An underrated mistake in US policy in Afghanistan was its long-running effort to suppress the cultivation of opium poppy and, in turn, the production of heroin and other opiates.
A thread. 1/19
3:47 PM · Aug 15, 2021
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Seema Jayachandran@seema_econ
I’m wondering if others agree with me on this: Describing a study as a randomized experiment because it uses Becker-Degroot-Marschak to elicit willingness to pay is incorrect. The randomized variation is being used to create incentive compatibility, not to identify a parameter.
1:13 PM · Aug 11, 2021
5 Reposts · 115 Likes
Jose M. Fernandez@UofLEcon
At the #DITE2021 conference, I was asked to comment about the difference for Black/Latino/a/x assistant professors. There are few items that I feel I have missed. So let me provide a summary.
Long thread! I hope it is useful.
2:27 PM · Aug 13, 2021
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Tyler Ransom@tyleransom
For those of you entering the tenure track, I've written a post about how to get serious about productivity. Hope it helps!
tyleransom.medium.com
Tips for new tenure-track professors in R1 economics departments
8:36 PM · Aug 12, 2021
47 Reposts · 223 Likes
JD Long@CMastication
I think I’ll use this to explain the role of the intercept in a linear regression…
1:47 AM · Aug 10, 2021
772 Reposts · 6.94K Likes