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Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 12, 2021

An Economist
Dec 13, 2021
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Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 12, 2021

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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

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Gabriella Conti @Gabri_EllaConti
📣🟧🟩🟨📣🟧🟩🟨📣 V. happy that paper 1️⃣ of a large-scale multi-arm RCT of 🏥 insurance in India 🇮🇳 w/ @anup_malani @cynthia_kinnan @AlessandraVoena et al. is out as WP! 👉🏻ifs.org.uk/publications/1… @TheIFS ✅ Uptake ⬆️ ✅ Access ⬆️ use ✅ +ve spillovers ❌ Health ↔️ 👇🏻
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8:35 AM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
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^forgive the rare paper commentary but: amazing experiment, would this have gotten more retweets if it had been in Oregon

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Stefanie Stantcheva @S_Stantcheva
Do taxes affect innovation? Over the course of the 20th century, personal & corporate income taxes have significantly shaped innovation in the US, as we show in a paper with @ufukakcigit, Tom Nicholas & @JohnRGrigsby in @QJEHarvard. scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche… A short thread🧵[1/17]
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8:30 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
345Likes88Retweets
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Stefanie Stantcheva @S_Stantcheva
MACRO results: personal & corporate income taxes have significant negative effects on the quantity of innovation and on the number of inventors residing in a state. Elasticities range from 0.8 to 1.8 for pers’l net-of-tax rates and 1.3 to 2.8 for corporate taxes. [9/17]
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8:31 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
13Likes8Retweets
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Robert Dur @DurRobert
How much should we trust experts' predictions about the effects of behavioral interventions? Megastudy by @katy_milkman et al finds: 🔹experts are about 10 times too optimistic about effect sizes 🔹no correlation between predicted and actual effects nature.com/articles/s4158…
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10:31 AM ∙ Dec 9, 2021
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Ziad Obermeyer @oziadias
Your doctor sends you for a lab test. Ever wondered if the outside temperature on the day of the test changes its result? Neither did @devingpope or I… until we did this study! Turns out, temperature distorts results Thread—new paper in @MedCellPress
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Cell Press @CellPressNews
Ambient temperature influences the results of some of the most used laboratory tests, and these distortions likely affect medical decision-making, including whether to prescribe medications. Read more in @MedCellPress here: https://t.co/xFw646sycI @oziadias, @Devin_G_Pope https://t.co/7EOePmvjau
6:02 PM ∙ Dec 10, 2021
202Likes60Retweets
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Kevin Chen @jiafengchen42
Excited to share a new working paper taking a closer look at causal inference in school choice settings, where students are matched to schools via algorithms. The paper derives the identified causal estimands under heterogeneous treatment effects (1/n) arxiv.org/abs/2112.03872
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3:27 AM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
170Likes32Retweets
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Zachary Bleemer @zbleemer
**New paper** Over the past 20 years (but not before!), Black and Hispanic college graduates have been steadily earning degrees in relatively lower-paying majors. The main culprit? An increasingly-common public university policy. A thread. #EconTwitter zacharybleemer.com/wp-content/upl…
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2:09 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
1,009Likes336Retweets
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Matt Darling 🌐💸🌇 @besttrousers
"Our conclusion is that the main contribution of the Malaney-Weinstein work is that it provides a striking example of how to obscure simple concepts through an uneconomical use of gauge theory."
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Timothy Nguyen @IAmTimNguyen
Published on the arxiv today is my response to @PiaMalaney + @EricRWeinstein's work on "Economics as Gauge Theory" which Eric Weinstein presented at UChicago last month: https://t.co/AlhcudavoX Summary of the objections is as follows: (1/n) https://t.co/4uLCUsid0I
5:48 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
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Alexander Berger @albrgr
Impressive paper from @chikaokafor_: scholar.harvard.edu/files/okafor/f…
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9:52 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
4Likes2Retweets
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Guy Grossman (he/him) @guygrossman
🚨 new working paper 🚨 I’m happy to share “The Electoral Consequences of Cellphone Coverage Expansion” with @GeShuning, @kkosec, @Apoorva__Lal, and Benjamin Laughlin. Link to preprint at osf.io/y94d5/
10:53 AM ∙ Nov 23, 2021
77Likes18Retweets
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Nick Bloom @I_Am_NickBloom
What is the biggest reason people are quitting their jobs right now? WFH For more see wfhresearch.com and follow #wfhresearch
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9:51 PM ∙ Dec 9, 2021
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More: DiD lit review; finance and cannabis industry; satellite data for poverty measurement; international enviro cooperation; Netherlands crime; taxes and benefits across Africa; ETF liquidity; alcohol taxes; government performance under populists; trade and inequality; violence against adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa

Public goods

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka
📣 new data alert! 📣 Excited to release v1 of the Census Place Project with @enrico_berkes and @EzraKarger fsb.miamioh.edu/nenckap/ Paper: ezrakarger.com/census_place_p… 🧵⬇️
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1:40 PM ∙ Dec 6, 2021
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Interesting discussions

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Natalia Emanuel @NataliaHEmanuel
Here’s a data download for first round interviews. Wisdom I received and things I learned along the way when I was on the JM last year. Please feel free to add your 2c! (I’ll post my notes on flyouts soon) long 🧵 1/x #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket
2:59 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2021
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^nearly every tweet from this thread could be included, on its own, in the newsletter

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Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi
Abstracts exceeding 200 words are a signal that the authors do not believe the reader’s time is valuable. This is usually bad news about the rest of the paper.
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Evan Washington @evanewashington
is there any academic sin worse than an overlong abstract? like buddy i'm trying to decide if i wanna read your paper at all, i'm not trying to read your entire paper to find that out
7:25 PM ∙ Dec 9, 2021
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^discussion in the replies

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