Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 6, 2022 [1/2]
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 one of two. Part two is here.
Paper summary threads
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak
Fun new article from @m_dresler et al tries to quantify the efficient frontier for time spent writing grants vs. expected return in grant money. nature.com/articles/s4156…
With an online calculator! ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/sc/cgi-bin/JA/…
Preprint PDF: dreslerlab.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/why-ma…
6:13 PM · Feb 6, 2022
5 Reposts · 14 Likes
Andrey Simonov@andsimonov
Are you a rising dictator struggling to spread online propaganda? Look no further — our paper (w/ @justinmrao) just out at @JPolEcon can teach you what gets people to consume your puppet news outlets
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…
A (joking) thread (on our serious paper). 1/N
journals.uchicago.edu
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 130, No 2
12:43 AM · Jan 31, 2022
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Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
New study: "In every country (without exception), more girls than boys aspired to a people-oriented occupation, and more boys than girls aspired to a things-oriented or STEM occupation." @FamStudies ifstudies.org/blog/sex-diffe…
3:23 PM · Jan 31, 2022
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Robert Dur@DurRobert
In countries where job-to-job mobility is more common:
🔹wages grow more over the life-cycle
🔹unemployment is lower
🔹labor productivity is higher
"the dynamic consequences of misallocation can be large"
nber.org/papers/w29698 by @NiklasEngbom
8:15 AM · Jan 31, 2022
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Robert Dur@DurRobert
Who commits crime?
Large-scale study among young men in 🇩🇰 finds that crime rates are
🔹much higher for risk-tolerant and impatient men
🔹much lower for altruistic men
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… by Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr, Kristoffer Hvidberg, @okoctk, @leth_soren, G. Rasmussen
8:48 AM · Feb 1, 2022
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Nick Bloom@I_Am_NickBloom
How is the 70 minutes saved each day by #WFH (60 from less commuting, 10 from less personal grooming) used? About 30 minutes (40%) on work, 25 minutes (35%) on leisure, and 15 minutes (25%) on chores and childcare.
So employers, individuals and families should all gain from WFH
4:01 PM · Jan 31, 2022
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Marissa Lepper@marissalepper
Are economic results reproducible? Our paper exploring excuse-seeking behavior finds a nuanced answer. We replicate the main finding of three related papers, but with different secondary results. We also attempt to connect behavior across domains. (1/6) sites.pitt.edu/~alistair/pape…
8:02 PM · Feb 3, 2022
13 Reposts · 45 Likes
Anup Malani pop-up section
He has a lot (of good stuff) to say this week:
Anup Malani@anup_malani
I made (at least) 5 research-management mistakes as a young academic. You should avoid these.
1/ You should drop everything possible when you get an R&R and turn that right away.
9:26 PM · Feb 5, 2022
287 Reposts · 1.49K Likes
Anup Malani@anup_malani
4 great tips for young academics I've gotten but regret not following enough:
1/Tom Sargent: Take 1 class per year even when ur a prof. Offsets the depreciation of the human capital you accumulated during grad school.
Long term benefits in productivity >> short term time cost.
2:42 PM · Feb 1, 2022
148 Reposts · 844 Likes
Anup Malani@anup_malani
When I applied to econ PhD programs I had no idea how to get in. I got lucky at a time when the standards were lower.
Since then I learned some things I wish I would have known. Here are a few. A 🧵
6:47 PM · Feb 2, 2022
3 Reposts · 23 Likes
Anup Malani@anup_malani
When I was in grad school @UChi_Economics 20 yrs ago, I didn't learn what it means to be a successful academic. 🧵
I was "taught" the goal is to get a top 5 (or a Nobel
😂).
I didn't learn how to get citations, be an influential academic or production fn for getting a prize.
3:37 PM · Jan 31, 2022
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Interesting discussions
⑆Luke Stein⑈@lukestein
If you hang around long enough, you WILL hear Dropbox horror stories. (btw, they really want to use the service for file syncing but *not* as a server👇)
I know you don’t want extra hassle, but if you depend on Dropbox as I do, you NEED a local backup 1/
scott cunningham @causalinf
So PSA. I tried sharing my videos for Mixtape Sessions on the last day to Dropbox. I’d been using cloud zoom, but it went to 89%, and so the last day I used the local computer recording option and thought I’d just share it in zoom. Well the traffic to the link got me suspended https://t.co/wSY9oRioQD
4:39 PM · Jan 30, 2022
3 Reposts · 14 Likes
Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs
I just heard back from my IRB about my proposal to do an anonymous survey of professors! These people are out of control. I cannot do my research unless I:
1. "include an invitation to print the consent form for their records prior to entering the survey"
3:18 AM · Feb 1, 2022
45 Reposts · 498 Likes
^more IRB discussion includes here + poll here
Jamin Speer@JaminSpeer
Serious question: what are your strategies for not taking rejections so hard that they crush you?
5:25 PM · Feb 1, 2022
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Timothy Layton@timothyjlayton
My controversial (and not sarcastic) opinion about real analysis and econ PhDs:
Real analysis shouldn't just be required for econ PhDs but for *all* college grads. Actually, make that *all high school grads*.
Hear me out. A thread on why:
5:00 PM · Jan 31, 2022
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Otis Reid@otis_reid
Every new econometrics paper pushes me further towards this meme
2:35 PM · Feb 2, 2022
53 Reposts · 850 Likes