Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 5, 2021 [2/2]
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.
This is part two of two. Part one is here.
Paper summary threads
In 2016, I asked @BLS_gov to consider adding a question on noncompete agreements (NCAs) to the NLSY97... and they agreed!
Nobody seems to know this valuable data exists. So Donna Rothstein and I wrote a paper describing the first wave of data. 🧵. 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
^also: noncompetes and consumer welfare
Fascinating new study shows that L-R ideological polarization hasn't (yet?) extended to "lifestyle" interests like food, sports, travel, shopping
Andy Guess @andyguess
💻🏢 Est-ce que le développement du télétravail a un impact sur l’immobilier commercial ? Avec les collègues @a_bergeaud, Thomas Garcia et @dorianhenricot on a planché sur la question. #Thread #EconTwitter 💥 1/n
🧵If you had the choice, would you have a baby when you were 34 yrs+11 mos old or 35 yrs+1 mo old? Does it matter? It does! Our new paper on “advanced maternal age”, prenatal care, + perinatal mortality. @JAMAHealthForum (joint w @markaclapp @ckellrun)
ja.ma/3DpI20y
More: soft skills certificates; heterogeneity in personal data valuation; causal effects, migration, and legacy studies; Reddit political polarization; collateral aversion; behavioral health program eval; older siblings bring home infections
Job market papers
Why did the demographic transition, essential condition for development, took hold in 🇫🇷 more than 100 years earlier than in any other country?
My #JMP uses crowdsourced genealogies to comprehensively document the decline in fertility & identify its origins for the first time 🧵
Very happy to share my job market paper “Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building” on the role of #Atatürk in diffusing a new Turkish national identity
More information on my research: sites.google.com/view/lydiaasso…
@PSEinfo @WIL_inequality @WomenKnowMENA #EconTwitter 1/n
Hi #EconTwitter! I am excited to share my JMP which investigates whether providing job opportunities to women decreases domestic violence (DV).
Context: Rapid expansion of coffee mills in Rwanda
Data: Self-reports + universe of monthly hospitalizations for DV
🧵 #EconJobMarket
Because “más vale tarde que nunca”:
I am a PhD Candidate in Public Policy (Economics Track) at Harvard University. I work is on the political economy of current development issues, and I am in the academic job market this year.
Here’s a 🧵 about my Job Market Paper. (1/n)
By exploiting the variation in policy adoption timing across states, I show that the number of women inventors rose significantly (especially in the long-run) after the adoption of independent property rights.
Hi #EconTwitter,
Excited to share a thread 🧵on my #JMP "Housing Markets and the Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy Across the Euro Area!
Why does monetary policy produce such different empirical responses across euro area countries? [1/7]
How does employer monopsony mediate business cycles and the Phillips curve?
Berkeley's @PrestonMui's outstanding JMP finds:
Big in theory.
But: the channel matters little in the data (industry test).
Striking+compelling results!
prestonmui.github.io
Bonus:REStud RR+REStat
Do you wonder how the rise in structured finance affects traditional banks and their lending relationships? My JMP highlights that lending relationships are still important, but NOT because of reasons commonly discussed in the banking literature..
A nice zoning JMP here by Petr Martynov. Paper finds spillover effects from buildings — productive externalities from office, and negative amenity externalities from industrial — amplify the welfare costs of zoning restrictions.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SHQcTL…
