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
Evan Starr@evanpstarr
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…
9:46 PM · Nov 30, 2021
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^also: noncompetes and consumer welfare
Alex Coppock@aecoppock
Fascinating new study shows that L-R ideological polarization hasn't (yet?) extended to "lifestyle" interests like food, sports, travel, shopping
Andy Guess @andyguess
Similarly, if we map liking patterns within the usual categories, polarization is visible. But for the "lifestyle"-related pages, no distinct network communities emerge. /7 https://t.co/UZIDPyYoci
5:20 PM · Dec 1, 2021
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Jean Benoît Eyméoud@JbEymeoud
💻🏢 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
11:33 AM · Nov 30, 2021
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jessicaleecohen@jessicaleecohen
🧵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
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Association of Care Services, Morbidity, and Mortality With the Advanced Maternal Age Cutoff
4:29 PM · Dec 3, 2021
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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
Guillaume Blanc@gguillaumeblanc
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 🧵
3:20 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Lydia Assouad@lydia_assouad
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
5:33 PM · Nov 30, 2021
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Deniz Sanin@DenizSanin_
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
7:48 AM · Nov 29, 2021
134 Reposts · 525 Likes
José Morales-Arilla@JoseMoralesA
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)
11:50 PM · Nov 30, 2021
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Ruveyda Nur Gozen@RuveydaiZGi
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.
4:10 PM · Nov 23, 2021
3 Reposts · 22 Likes
Stefano Pica@pica_ste
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]
12:46 PM · Nov 30, 2021
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Benjamin Schoefer@Schoefer_B
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
4:12 PM · Dec 2, 2021
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Abhishek Bhardwaj@abhi_bwj
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..
1:34 AM · Dec 2, 2021
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
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…
9:33 PM · Dec 2, 2021
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Hedieh Tajali@hediehtj
I examine how teacher strikes affect voluntary financial support for schools. My results show that overall, contributions do not change after exposure to a strike.
5:16 PM · Dec 5, 2021
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Guillaume Blanc@gguillaumeblanc
Can state-sponsored education foster the adoption of a common language and formation of a national identity in a fragmented society? 🧵⬇️
In my #JMP, Kubo & I study this using a natural experiment and a novel municipality-level dataset on spoken languages in 🇫🇷
#EconTwitter
6:26 PM · Dec 1, 2021
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