Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 13, 2022 [3/3]

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 three of three. Part one is here and part two is here.

Interesting discussions

Marginal Revolution @MargRev

How to negotiate your assistant professor salary

marginalrevolution.comHow to negotiate your assistant professor salary - Marginal REVOLUTIONJennifer Doleac writes: I’ve discovered a new passion for helping junior women in econ negotiate better job offers. It’s easier to see what you deserve from the outside (always: more than they are offering…) Great! Here are a few tips from me, not just for women, noting that I am going to skip over…

Christopher Ruhm @christopherruhm

🧵1/ Some thoughts on the current state of applied microeconomics. Causal inference has become the dominant paradigm for what many applied microeconomists focus upon and, I think, what many think applied microeconomics is (at least in labor, public, health, crime, education etc.

^tldr: more partial identification

Peter Hull @instrumenthull

Ok this is a fun one which may be useful for ~87% of you, if you've never heard of "the stacking trick" It's relatively straightforward to get SEs on linear/nonlinear functions of the coefficients in a *single* OLS/2SLS regression. e.g. in @Stata you can use lincom or nlcom...

Peter Hull @instrumenthull

Say you need to compute the standard error on some function of coefficients across *different* OLS or IV regressions. Do you

Paul Francis @anonymity_R_Us

Suppose you want to measure the number of COVID deaths in 2021. So you count all deaths, and attribute them all to COVID. That would be dumb, but this is essentially what the Census Bureau did when they measured privacy loss for their reconstruction attack. 1/

Alice Evans @_alice_evans

OK! I have condensed the entire literature on the origins of patriarchy into 10 hypotheses. I think this is everything from feminist anthropology, archaeology, history, economics and genetics?? Lmk if you think I’ve missed anything out! 😬

Anup Malani @anup_malani

I do a lot of interdisciplinary work. Here are 4 hard lessons I've learned. They may help you be more successful (than me) if you want to work across fields.

Daniel Rock @danielrock

Would love an @overleaf equivalent in markdown!

Nick HK @nickchk

When I was in grad school, learning LaTeX was 100% worth my time. For current grad students I think you're probably better off learning how to write in Markdown and have something else do the LaTeX conversion for you when you want a PDF.

Rowan Cockett @rowancockett

@nickchk @danielrock @overleaf This is what @curvenote is! Designed for technical writing. Speaks latex and markdown.

Anne Karing @AnneKaring

What are good audio pdf readers? I loved audiobooks from very little on, and thought why not try it for papers. Any recs very welcome :)

Anup Malani @anup_malani

A rite of initiation for young law profs is figuring out the optimal time to submit to law reviews. I had endless discussions of this as a junior. I wish I had this chart (from @scholasticahq) to help me schedule my submissions:

^law journals. If anyone has the same data for econ journals, please tweet it :)

Kevin Drum @kdrum

Raw data: The age of law school faculty has skyrocketed jabberwocking.com/raw-data-the-a…

^law faculty

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage

In many professional service industries (consulting, finance, law, accounting — and academia): leaders tend to be promoted from within. As opposed to being generalist CEOs. Why is that the case? Why not have a Business School Dean, for instance, who used to be a CEO?

Jessie Handbury @jessiehandbury

Part of the secret curriculum that needs to be more widely publicized (esp. among new referees): If you think that a paper passes the bar for a journal, your report shouldn’t go straight from summary to suggested revisions. First make the case the paper’s contribution!

scott cunningham @causalinf

I heard an interesting thing recently. I got rejected at QJE with 3 aloof reports. And a friend read my reports (I can barely open rejections tbh) and told me something interesting. They said “you don’t have a champion of the paper among these referees”. Interesting word. Champ.

Rachael Meager @economeager

Something I did *not* realise is that at some journals if you revise and resubmit for a new round, your letter to the editor is also bundled up with your reply package to the referees so your referees see if you complained about them to the editor RETWEET TO SAVE A LIFE