Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 14, 2022 [2/2]
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This is part two of two.
Paper summaries
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…
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Comments are welcome!
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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.
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
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
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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…
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
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
Evidence of widespread p-hacking and publication bias in MTurk studies
docs.iza.org/dp15478.pdf by Abel Brodeur, @nikolaimcook, Anthony Heyes
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^“Economics & Finance” look less bad fwiw
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
A neat illustration of the frontier of applied research: start with data and add assumptions / model to get more economically-relevant results 3/3
More: numbers in abstracts; US antitrust political economy; media
Interesting discussions
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.
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
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
