Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 4, 2022 [2/3]
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 three.
Paper summaries
🚨🥁 New working paper: 🥁🚨
Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program
(with @LukasLehner_)
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/pap…
Using multiple evaluation approaches, we find strong positive effects of a job guarantee for the long-term unemployed.
We document the appearance of a new race gap in traffic deaths that emerged after 2014. In fact, this was the first time that the rate of traffic deaths for Black Americans exceeded that of White Americans since at least the early 1970s. Our paper tries to unravel this mystery.👇
Niskanen Center @NiskanenCenter
New WP links CA birth certificates to tax data to see how infant and maternal health changes across the income distribution, and how these patterns differ by race/ethnicity and across countries. w/ Kate Kennedy-Moulton @PerssonPetra @maya_rossin @LaurawherryR & Gloria Aldana!
I've been working on a paper which tries to tie together a wide variety of belief biases in a common framework using ideas from information theory.
Comments/direction appreciated!
osf.io/vfqy2/
There's a terrific paper out today in AER on the effects of inter-racial contact.
Students at the U of Cape Town are randomly assigned roommates, leading to multiracial room assignments. How does this exposure affect attitudes, behavior, & GPA?
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
Do women face discrimination when they post questions on Stack Exchange?
If they are novice (low reputation score), yes! They get a smaller reputation bump
If they are advanced (high score), direction of discrimination ~reverses~
Paper by @aislinnbohren, @alexoimas, Rosenberg
An economist did an experiment by emailing ~2000 police agencies asking for help filing a complaint. He randomized the “sender’s” name to signal race/ethnicity and sex. Overall RR 67%; agencies less likely to respond to emails signed w/Black or Hispanic names.
#AcademicTwitter
Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? In our recent @JPubEcon paper, @kyle_c_meng and I study this for the case of California’s carbon market. 1/
Link (with open access): sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
^no, they do not
Time to do a proper 🧵of my book whytrustmatters.com. I only started twitter when it came out, now after a year of experience, using the occasion of the paperback release to try again. Also a year of book tour talks have helped refine my sales pitch!
Why Trust Matters - 1/n
🚨new on smart matching platforms:
Teachers applying to jobs in rural ecuador were provided information on their chances of getting the jobs they applied for (given algorithm/ applications) + suggested other jobs.
Result 1: shifted entire distribution of teacher competency
***NEW PAPER 🧵***
If it were a snake, it would have bitten you: Money in the New Keynesian Model
joint with @RebelEconProf
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Longer (~10-tweet) summary:
We study "payments for ecosystem services" (PES) to reduce stubble burning in Punjab, India, which is a big contributor to the terrible air quality in New Delhi and the rest of north India -- particulate matter shaves 7 years off of life expectancy.
Public goods
A great analysis on school spending using our NERD$ dataset, which aggregates and harmonizes school-by-school per student spending across the 50 states and DC:
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