Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 26, 2023: paper summaries

Feb 27, 2023

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Idiosyncratic favorites

Evan Starr@evanpstarr

🚨New WP🚨 w/Takuya Hiraiwa & @MichaelLipsitz "Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach" Not for workers at the 79th earnings pctile! Firms didn't raise pay to ensure NCAs could be enforced in court. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… /1

11:29 AM · Feb 20, 2023

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Evan Starr@evanpstarr

Using admin data covering all workers in WA, and three complementary difference-in-differences approaches, we find that earnings did not bunch at the earnings threshold. /5

11:29 AM · Feb 20, 2023

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Evan Starr@evanpstarr

Finally, we answer a related question: do shareholders suffer because firms are unable to enforce NCAs for a large portion of their workforce? We find that the answer is no: Tobin's q is unaffected by the law. /8

11:29 AM · Feb 20, 2023

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Paper summaries

Michal Soltes@michalsoltes

In our recent working paper w/ @JakubGrossmann2 and @FPertold, we show that an increase in parental allowance (PA) led to a substantial decrease in maternal labor supply. 👉papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

8:27 AM · Feb 21, 2023

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Anselm Hager@anselmhager

Across Berlin, Holocaust victims are remembered with stumbling blocks. The memorials always leave a deep impression on me. Do such memorials affect attitudes? In a new paper, we find the blocks have a negative “effect” on the vote-share of the xenophobic AfD party.

1:13 PM · Feb 23, 2023

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Anselm Hager@anselmhager

@miguelmaria In our paper, we collected the time and location of all nearly 10,000 Berlin stumbling blocks. We then exploit this temporal and geographic variation and correlate it with the AfD’s vote share across seven elections in local precincts (N = 2200).

1:18 PM · Feb 23, 2023

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Lindsey Bullinger@lindsbullinger

We find that in the 4 days following the payments, child abuse/neglect-related visits drop. But, they return to similar levels quickly thereafter. Effects are strongest for male children and non-Hispanic White children. 4/

7:17 PM · Feb 22, 2023

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Dan Devine@DanJDevine

Across five countries we show that people's trust responses are surprisingly stable over the life course - they don't change much from the first to subsequent waves.

11:41 AM · Feb 22, 2023

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Abhijit Tagade@atagade1

Thrilled to share about our WP! We study tradeoffs inventors face b/w expanding their network of collaborators to get new ideas vs fearing they might get stolen. We show that despite having a larger pool of potential coauthors, inventors partner with fewer new collaborators. 1/

CEPR @cepr_org

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17911 Innovation Networks and Business-Stealing Philippe Aghion @cdf1530 @LSEEcon @INSEAD, @JacksonmMatt @StanfordHumSci, @AntoineMyrwtz @PSEinfo @cdf1530, @atagade1 @LSEEcon https://t.co/SSd2GmkjkU #CEPR_MG, #CEPR_OE https://t.co/iyqq7YDGVv

2:47 PM · Feb 20, 2023

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Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon

What is the return to more years in college? In the largest public univ in Singapore, a 4th year (determined by grade-based RD) yields 12% extra $$ (lasting at least 4 years) Mechanism: probably human capital accumulation.

10:21 PM · Feb 21, 2023

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Aurélien Goutsmedt@AGoutsmedt

1/ @alxndr_trc & I just released a Digital History of Macroeconomics interactive platform digitalhistoryofscience.org/dhm/ a project funded by HES @Societies_HET @alxndr_trc has shown the main features; I’ll show you a (tiny) sample of what we can learn from it about history of macro

Alexandre Truc @alxndr_trc

1/13 @agoutsmedt and I are pleased to release DHM: a Digital History of Macroeconomics interactive platform https://t.co/3eid9Vd91m. The platform allows the exploration of macroeconomics history from 1969 to 2015. Here is a rundown of its features: https://t.co/doA3Mw2iaA

6:47 PM · Feb 22, 2023

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Aaron Roth@Aaroth

Our paper on reconstructing the private data of US citizens from publicly released Census statistics is now out in PNAS. You can read about it here: blog.seas.upenn.edu/u-s-census-dat… and find the paper here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…. Read on for the TLDR. 🧵

2:45 PM · Feb 21, 2023

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^not having read the paper, would be interested in a clearer quantification of “how bad is this”

NBER@nberpubs

Three percent of US voters are registered to vote in two states. Their voting reflects incentives and costs, being more prevalent in swing states and auto-mailed ballot states, from Gordon B. Dahl, Joseph Engelberg, @RunjingLu, and @w_mullins_ nber.org/papers/w30972

5:00 PM · Feb 24, 2023

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Ian Mitchell@EconMitch

How important are emerging economies to funding international development organisations? No-one has ever looked at this systematically over time - so, @SamHugh3s and I look back a decade, and forward to 2050. 5 key findings:

6:58 PM · Feb 22, 2023

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Garett Jones@GarettJones

The Thrift Transplant: Americans whose parents came from high-savings countries put away more for retirement themselves. New finding from Jason Richwine. Draws on new questions in the CPS-- and reinforces UK and German findings of a Thrift Transplant.

6:46 PM · Feb 23, 2023

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^(this is in dollar terms, not percentage terms — complicates interpretation)

Cameron Harwick 👾🏛@C_Harwick

My chapter "Finance in a Theory of Money" has just been published in the new @mercatus festschrift for Richard Wagner, where I argue for an "ecological" monetarism. mercatus.org/hayekprogram/r… Summary thread below. 🧵

3:52 PM · Feb 25, 2023

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Yan Chen@yanchen

In a randomized field experiment at a large ride-sharing platform, we randomly assign drivers into teams and have them compete for cash prize for a week. We find that treated drivers work longer hours and earn 12% higher revenue. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

6:05 PM · Feb 18, 2023

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Adam Soliman@adamksoliman

🚨NOW IN PRINT🚨 Harsher penalties are intended to deter crime & focus of policy and research often on offenders. I instead focus on police & find 1⃣ Police respond to changes in punishment severity 2⃣ Severity & enforcement effort are complements journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… (1/5)

2:41 PM · Feb 22, 2023

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Margaret Samahita@msamahita

I am happy to share that my paper "Too much commitment? An online experiment with tempting YouTube content" (with Claes Ek @econGU) is now published in JEBO:

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10:08 AM · Feb 23, 2023

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Marko Terviö@MarkoTervio

A new article by Keuschnigg, van de Rijt and Bol doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc… finds that the relation of average cognitive ability and wages plateaus at the top 10 percentiles. They used Swedish data; I use similar Finnish data and find that the relation gets steeper near the top.