Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 12, 2023: paper summaries
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Paper summaries
Rex "garbage in" Douglass Ph.D.@RexDouglass
But found a meaningfully large discontinuity right at the dollar mark. People psychologically fall for $1.99 being qualitatively different than $2.00 but don't see a difference between $1.98 and $1.99.
4:41 PM · Feb 9, 2023
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^left digit bias; comparison to lit
Kelli Marquardt@KelliMarquardt
New cases of child ADHD diagnosis *fell* due to COVID-19 pandemic factors (school closures & other societal disruptions) by 8.6% among boys and 11.0% among girls nationwide through Feb '21.
nber.org/papers/w30909
~with @seth_freedman,@dariojsalcedo, @KosaliSimon, @coady_wing.
nber.org
Societal Disruptions And Child Mental Health: Evidence From ADHD Diagnosis During The COVID-19 Pandemic
7:48 PM · Feb 7, 2023
19 Reposts · 67 Likes
VoxDev@vox_dev
Can geography explain agricultural productivity differences across countries?
In today's column, Tasso Adamopoulos and @DiegoRestuccia conclude that land quality and geography cannot justify the observed agricultural productivity gaps. Here are the key takeaways 🧵 1/10
3:41 PM · Feb 7, 2023
25 Reposts · 81 Likes
Johannes Rincke@JRincke
3/ All-male teams communicate more than mixed and all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative compositions. In mixed teams, men strongly dominate the team conversation (men utter 70% more words than women).
12:25 PM · Feb 9, 2023
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Pedro Sant'Anna@PedroSant_Anna
🚨 New WP!
"Rooting for the same team: on the interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties"
With @Nicolas_Ajz and @bruno_ferman
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
3:04 PM · Feb 9, 2023
31 Reposts · 168 Likes
Francesco Furlanetto 🇺🇦@francescofurla8
Using a combination of New Keynesian theory and estimated SVAR models, we find that a more aggressive response of monetary policy against inflation can explain the reduced sensitivity of inflation to real economic activity until 2020. 2/N
7:12 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Yanbo.Wang@YanboWang18
examines publications originating from Chinese research institutions in the field of Chemistry. They show that Chinese authored articles receive only half the citations from the US compared to articles from other countries. They further show that
12:02 PM · Feb 7, 2023
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Jose M. Fernandez@UofLEcon
🚨New Publication🚨
Joint work with Sandra Orozco & @econ_garcia, entitled
"Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox" in the Journal of Economic Perspective.
You find free access to the paper here
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
Let me start of a thread of what we do
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aeaweb.org
Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox
9:31 PM · Feb 6, 2023
33 Reposts · 128 Likes
Miguel Talamas@MiguelTalamas
Thank you, @vox_dev and @timsvengali, for having me. See the latest episode featuring Grandmothers and the Gender Gap in the Mexican Labor market: open.spotify.com/episode/3ZeaM6…
Just published at JDE: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…
3:43 PM · Feb 8, 2023
22 Reposts · 106 Likes
NBER@nberpubs
Evidence that digital advertising has larger effects for higher rated and independent restaurants, from Weijia Dai, Hyunjin Kim, and @mike_luca nber.org/papers/w30925
3:00 PM · Feb 12, 2023
8 Reposts · 20 Likes
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Nitya Pandalai-Nayar@nityanayar
The trade elasticity is one of the most important parameters in international trade and macro, but estimates of these parameters vary substantially. We develop a dynamic gravity-based framework to estimate trade elasticities in an internally consistent fashion for (2/6)
9:53 PM · Feb 9, 2023
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Alessandro Sforza@alesforza87
I am very happy that the paper "The value of managers' export experience: lessons from the Angolan civil war" has found its home at the @restatjournal!! #EconTwitter
What it is about? A short 🧵 follows
The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal
"Managers' export experience doubles the chance of starting to export after the sudden end of the Angolan war." Just Accepted new paper by Luca David Opromolla @LucaOpromolla, Alessandro Sforza @alesforza87, and Giordano Mion https://t.co/1eQTMz8dOB
10:15 AM · Feb 11, 2023
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Lukas Freund@_LukasFreund_
More evidence that skill-task mismatch matters for productivity: Diethorn & Marsche's new @nberpubs WP:
"Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical PhD Labor Market"
🔗 nber.org/papers/w30919
2:32 PM · Feb 6, 2023
1 Repost · 11 Likes
Garrett Johnson@garjoh_canuck
🧵What have economists learned from the #GDPR?
I review the literature for a future NBER book on the "Economics of #Privacy" edited by @ce_tucker & @avicgoldfarb. 1/7
nber.org/books-and-chap…
2:40 AM · Feb 9, 2023
17 Reposts · 41 Likes
Christian Hakulinen@chakulinen
Our new paper 'Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study' is now available online: jech.bmj.com/content/early/…
@KimmoSuokas @kaislii @pbockerman @LummeSonja
Short summary of the results:
👇
jech.bmj.com
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study
1:21 PM · Feb 7, 2023
7 Reposts · 45 Likes
Juan Mateos Garcia@JMateosGarcia
Neat analysis of the innovation cycle in drug development: you need a mature knowledge base before turning research into products...and in median terms it takes 36 years to create this knowledge base for a single drug approval!
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
8:02 AM · Feb 8, 2023
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Ben Ippolito@ben_ippolito
Over time, drugs targeting the Medicare Part D market have seen larger differences between net and list prices than other drugs. This is consistent with concerns some have had about the program's design.
New paper with @jlevy2 in @HSR_HRET
2:42 PM · Feb 8, 2023
11 Reposts · 26 Likes
Peter Bergman@peterbergman_
Almost a new paper: We show algorithmic placement substantially ⬆ placement into college courses w/o ⬇ pass rates; ⬇ need for remediation➡️saving students $; test scores discriminate➡️disparate impact, algorithms less so; selective labels hurts prediction in English, not math.
5:25 PM · Feb 10, 2023
12 Reposts · 61 Likes
Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon
How do deterrence messages affect tax compliance in the DR (N = 56k).
Info about prison sentences and public disclosure of evasion increases revenue by $100+ million. 84% of the revenue comes from the largest firms, which have been excluded from prior nudge experiments.
9:25 PM · Feb 10, 2023
3 Reposts · 14 Likes
Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon
Juvenile detention substantially reduces the probability of high school graduation and increases the probability of adult arrest
There are likely few benefits to the public in most cases.
The analysis follows six cohorts of youth in 12 Michigan counties with linked admin data.
9:18 PM · Feb 10, 2023
2 Reposts · 5 Likes