Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 26, 2021
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Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 26, 2021
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.
Paper summary threads
New data visualization: Ever wonder how lifetime wages and employment differ for selective college graduates with different demographics, majors, or even which courses they took?
These longitudinal student dashboards provide answers. A #EconTwitter thread uccliometric.org/uc-berkeley-lo…
^lots of graphs in the thread, data from UC schools 2000-2020
Since @JacobGreenspon already did a great overview thread on our paper w/ @LHSummers, I'll just add a few thoughts on productivity-pay de/linkage and what it might tell us.
Anna Stansbury @annastansbury
1/ Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Reduce Employment? Evidence from Early State-Level Expirations in June 2021
My new working paper, with @HolzerHarry & Glenn Hubbard, is out this morning. Abstract in the picture.
Paper here: nber.org/papers/w29575
How promoting financial inclusion for underbanked cities affect local economic development? A vox column summarizing my paper with the incredible @JuliaAFonseca: voxeu.org/article/real-e…
A 🧵
Affirmative action at elite universities: How does it affect graduates’ earnings?
Depending on the graduate: evidence of positive, transitory, and negative effects.
Fascinating work by Machado, Reyes, and Riehl.🧵
More: landmines; monetary policy and automation; US Afghan withdrawal and female education JMP; email response rates by race; internet access and education; reputation systems
Public goods
New PUBLIC-USE data from US Census released yesterday Business Dynamics Statistics-Goods Traders and a companion paper w\ @farihakamal2011 & Wei Ouyang. If you are interested in trade and employment, you're gonna want to check this out
A thread🧵 1/
Fariha Kamal @farihakamal2011
🚨New Dataset Alert!🚨
What economic ideologies do political leaders have around the world?
A 🧵 on what we learn from the Global Leader Ideology dataset (GLI) I have built over the last four years, and why it matters.
#polisciresearch #socsciresearch
The hours we work set the boundary for leisure against work. In a new WP I document how working hours have become globally standardized through public policy and introduces a novel dataset on working-time regulation for 197 territories between 1789 and 2021 (1147 reforms)
Interesting discussions
One persistent issue in academia is that to even approach the doorstep of an academic career, one must generally be willing and able to move cities multiple times at rather unpredictable times, delay parenting to the mid thirties or beyond, and/or uproot a spouse and kids x times
^thread. Chaser:
The Richmond Fed is moving to a core week model, we meet one week out of six. This has already allowed a couple of colleagues to move to places that make more sense to them from a personal standpoint as well as make new hires.
Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga
^innovation and/or monkey’s paw curls, depending on your preferences
1/ There have been some threads out about economics departments giving tenure-track offers that “explode” even before the main ASSA meeting interviews. Some thoughts on that.
1. This has been going on for a long-time but it may have gotten worse in recent years.
^arguments for defecting
Storytime! Here is how and why I switched from working on cash transfers to working on international migration.
If you're still looking to donate this year, it's also a pitch! Donation link at malengo.org. US donations are tax-free.
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^‘GiveWell for international migration+education, via ISAs’
Here's my take! (no particular order)
Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️ @abhishekn
^similar threads for urban, marketing
Anyone moved their academic website w/ @NotionHQ and @super_? I currently use WordPress but this seems like overkill and it more of a hassle than I'd like.
