Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 14, 2022 [2/2]

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 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!

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.

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

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

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.orgEfficient Matching in the School Choice Problem(June 2022) - Stable matchings in school choice needn’t be Pareto efficient and can leave thousands of students worse off than necessary. Call a matching μ priority-neutral if no matching can make any student whose priority is violated by μ better off without violating the priority of some student w…

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

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

^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/

^“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

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

^another thread on same paper

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.

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

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

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/

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

A play in two acts. @ZachWeiner