Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 21, 2021 [1/2]

Feb 22, 2021

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

Jared Rubin@jaredcrubin

Excited we finally have a draft of this paper, which attempts to provide a 'unifying theory' of the long economic divergence between the Middle East & Western Europe As we see it, there are 3 recent theories that hit on important aspects of the divergence... 1/

CEPR @cepr_org

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP15802 Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence @albertobisin @nyuniversity, Jared Rubin @jaredcrubin @ChapmanU, Avner Seror @SerorAvner @amseaixmars @univamu, Thierry Verdier @PSEinfo https://t.co/lhs6AJb7jE #CEPR_DE, #CEPR_EH, #CEPR_ITRE https://t.co/FtMzAELljJ

5:31 PM · Feb 16, 2021

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Megan Stevenson@MeganTStevenson

How "risky" does someone need to be to justify pretrial detention under current law? @sandy_mayson and I lay out the legal & empirical framework to answer this. We show that jail is so harmful that virtually no one is "dangerous" enough to warrant it. 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

12:44 PM · Feb 17, 2021

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Otis Reid@otis_reid

One of my favorite papers* just got a new draft, so I thought it would be a great time to do a thread about it! Tldr: the fact that recessions hurt younger, poorer workers more means that they are worse for all of us *my wife’s JMP

8:19 PM · Feb 14, 2021

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Tyler Black, MD@tylerblack32

1/ GLOBAL Suicidology 2020 World-first data! Every nation so far that has reported its suicide rates for 2020, compared to previous years. No change since 2019 (but down from 2017). Despite a global pandemic, no current evidence suggests a 2020 rise in suicides.

7:00 PM · Feb 14, 2021

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Johannes Haushofer@jhaushofer

Fascinating new paper on the economics of mental health by @MariekeJBos, Andreas Hertzberg, and @andreslib: when Swedish men get a diagnosis of a mental illness at age 18, this leads to increased unemployment, illness, and death later in life. drive.google.com/file/d/1KLxcvH…

2:16 PM · Feb 19, 2021

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Amy Orben@OrbenAmy

🚨Preprint Update🚨 The work now includes a new preregistered dataset: it confirms our finding of a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence. >99% of 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 adolescents are estimated to experience a decline between 10-24y. psyarxiv.com/y8ruw

4:12 PM · Feb 15, 2021

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Gernot Wagner@GernotWagner

SCC nerd alert: Stern & Stiglitz are out with a new take that's bound to make some waves. The upshot: It's a cogent critique of 'traditional' approaches. But: their 'recommendation' is an SCC ~$100/tCO₂ by 2030. That's *lower* than what the 'traditionalists' get to by now!

1:36 PM · Feb 15, 2021

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Itai Sher@itaisher

My new paper “Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies” Comments welcome! Link here: drive.google.com/file/d/1v7vYCj…

7:02 PM · Feb 15, 2021

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Sandra Rozo@svrozo

JDE Forthcoming (with @anamibanez and @dany_bahar): we evaluate the labor market impacts of the regularization of nearly half a million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia in 2018. We find negligible effects of the program on formal Colombian workers: sandravrozo.com/wp-content/upl…

4:55 AM · Feb 15, 2021

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Jon de Quidt@jondequidt

Nutshell: We test four ways of measuring willingness to pay (WTP) in rural Uganda. Some have nice advantages for the researcher, but might reduce participants' comprehension or willingness to report their "true" WTP. All four work great, good news for users! 2/9

4:03 PM · Feb 15, 2021

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Lea Bou Sleiman@Lea_Bousleiman

Hello #EconTwitter, I'm thrilled to share my work: “Are car-free centers detrimental to the periphery? Evidence from the pedestrianization of the Parisian riverbank” (1/9) #UrbanEconomics #EnvironmentalEconomics drive.google.com/file/d/15yLPpa… @Polytechnique @CrestUmr @XDepEco

drive.google.com

Car_free_centers.pdf

4:58 PM · Feb 16, 2021

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Public goods

Wei Yang Tham@wytham88

Check out @BlattnerLaura's 15 rules for grad school but many are actually for life. Haven't seen this doc before but these are v good dropbox.com/s/8hfsfw21fvbn… No. 1: Remind yourself how much you have been given More excerpts in screenshots

2:56 AM · Feb 15, 2021

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Kevin Griffith@AssumeNormality

🚨🚨 PUBLIC GOOD ALERT 🚨🚨 Have you needed old Area Health Resource Files & been bummed HRSA only has the most recent 1-2 years of data online? We have good news, AHRFs 2004-present now in citeable format Please share for those who may benefit (1/3) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

5:17 PM · Feb 16, 2021

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Nageeb Ali@SNageebAli

Editing my CV often requires fighting and winning against Word's built-in formatting. It's time to quit and shift to LaTeX. Has anyone come across good LaTeX templates for academic / econ CVs? #EconTwitter

9:18 PM · Feb 16, 2021

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Arpit Gupta@arpitrage

New short paper option in Development. List of other short papers, by @Dweepobotee: github.com/Dweepobotee/Ec…

Tom Vogl @tom_vogl

Development economists! I am pleased to announce a new *short papers* track at the Journal of Development Economics. Guidelines are identical to AER:I. 6k words, 5 exhibits, quick turnaround, conditional accept/reject. See "Special Submissions" here: https://t.co/U9fcLDGMqw

10:03 PM · Feb 17, 2021

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