Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 6, 2022 [1/2]
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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
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…
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
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…
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
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
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
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…
Anup Malani pop-up section
He has a lot (of good stuff) to say this week:
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.
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.
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 🧵
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.
Interesting discussions
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
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"
