Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 14, 2022 [2/2]
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This is part two of two.
Paper summaries
Marina Gertsberg@marinambgg
NEW WP 🚨: How did collaborations between men & women change after #MeToo?
Overall, I show women’s productivity falls post #MeToo, largely due to fewer collaborations with men.
👉ssrn.com/abstract=41059…
A 🧵 (n/8)
Comments are welcome!
1:06 PM · Aug 11, 2022
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Marina Gertsberg@marinambgg
2/8
I provide evidence from research collaborations in economics:
Annual output of (the same) junior female academic fell post #MeToo by 0.7/1.7 projects. A drop in new projects with all male co-authors explains 60% of output decline—largely new males at the same university.
1:06 PM · Aug 11, 2022
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Evan Soltas@esoltas
Licensing policies going way beyond national norms, Morris Kleiner & I find in a paper now accepted at REStud, typically reduce welfare:
- higher wages don't fully compensate workers for licensing costs
- customers don't value the license above its cost
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton
This long-delayed DC requirement for daycare workers to have college degrees will be truly terrible for everyone except Montessori daycares where workers already have college degrees if it goes into effect https://t.co/xtLT8kDLkY
12:21 AM · Aug 14, 2022
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Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna@pedrohcgs
Do you use Difference-in-Differences methods? Have you ever wondered how selection into treatment relates to parallel trends? The role of unobservables?
@DaliaAGhanem, @wuthrich_k, and I are very excited to share our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2203.09001
1/n
10:54 PM · Aug 8, 2022
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David Delacrétaz@d_delacretaz
Very interesting paper in the AER by Phillip Reny. It provides yet more evidence---perhaps the strongest so far---that Onur Kesten's (2010, QJE) Efficiency-Adjusted Deferred Acceptance (EADA) mechanism is the right one for school choice. A🧵[1/8] aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
aeaweb.org
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem
12:43 PM · Aug 8, 2022
35 Reposts · 179 Likes
Barton Lee@bartonelee2
Very happy to have my paper "Gridlock, leverage, and policy bundling" published in the Journal of Public Economics @JPubEcon
Time for a thread (1/10)
Full paper: dropbox.com/s/bvp2pk3xak97…
@magdalenoxford @UNSWEcon
Journal of Public Economics @JPubEcon
Recently published paper in the @JPubEcon :
"Gridlock, leverage, and policy bundling"
Vol 212 (August 2022)
by Barton E. Lee (@bartonelee2, @magdalenoxford )
https://t.co/v3zgSdY4ja
4:14 PM · Aug 9, 2022
12 Reposts · 69 Likes
Brett Hollenbeck@econominable
New Working Paper: "The Impact of Dollar Store Expansion on Local Market Structure and Food Access" joint with @CaouiHadi and Matthew Osborne (@rotmanschool). We study the impact of the dramatic expansion of dollar store chains on the retail landscape
ssrn.com/abstract=416310
9:40 PM · Aug 9, 2022
64 Reposts · 257 Likes
^beware positive vs. normative claims
Robert Dur@DurRobert
Evidence of widespread p-hacking and publication bias in MTurk studies
docs.iza.org/dp15478.pdf by Abel Brodeur, @nikolaimcook, Anthony Heyes
🧵1/
3:23 PM · Aug 11, 2022
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^“Economics & Finance” look less bad fwiw
Lena@LenaJanys
Super happy that my paper is coming out at @restatjournal! Here is a short thread for those interested:
The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal
Introducing a tool to detect implicit quotas and show that there exists a two-women quota per department. Just Accepted new paper, "Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities" by Lena Janys @LenaJanys. https://t.co/QjCSwBIiYB
6:56 AM · Aug 12, 2022
28 Reposts · 129 Likes
Benedict Guttman-Kenney@gk_ben
A neat illustration of the frontier of applied research: start with data and add assumptions / model to get more economically-relevant results 3/3
3:29 PM · Aug 9, 2022
40 Reposts · 167 Likes
More: numbers in abstracts; US antitrust political economy; media
Interesting discussions
Kai Gehring@KaiGehring1
I find Engagement with prior literature extremely important as we always build on the shoulders of giants.
But the current standard that superficially (&often strategically) cites many authors without really engaging with their work is not doing scientific progress a great favor.
2:57 PM · Aug 12, 2022
3 Reposts · 24 Likes
anthonyleezhang.eth@AnthonyLeeZhang
A big reason why textbooks are so much easier to read than papers is that the lit review section goes at the end of a textbook chapter, and at the beginning of a paper
11:58 PM · Aug 8, 2022
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quan le 🍚🥢@qlquanle
pining for an econ textbook in the tradition of math texts like "Counterexamples in Topology" where we just go through nice simple true-sounding statements in econ and cleverly tearing them apart
4:35 AM · Aug 8, 2022
5 Reposts · 110 Likes
Pamela Herd@pamela_herd
I'm in promotion letter season again and just want to remind folks of some tips regarding your research statement 1/
7:14 PM · Aug 9, 2022
144 Reposts · 627 Likes
Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi
A play in two acts. @ZachWeiner
12:16 AM · Aug 11, 2022
7 Reposts · 99 Likes