Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 13, 2022 [1/3]
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 one of three. Part two is here and part three is here.
Paper summary threads
Allison Shertzer@econhist_allday
The importance of infrastructure has gotten a lot of attention recently. For historical perspective, a thread on our new working paper on how much people valued Chicago's (expensive!) water and sewer system (with Coury, Kitagawa, and Turner).
nber.org
The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
2:24 PM · Feb 7, 2022
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Lukas Freund@_LukasFreund_
Colaicovo, Dalton, Kerr, & @william_r_kerr (2022) document a striking compositional change of the industry composition of the ~10% self-employed in the US over the last 50 years: sharply ⏬share of industries with high startup capital requirements.
🔗 nber.org/papers/w29725
6:36 PM · Feb 7, 2022
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Giuseppe Cavaliere@CavaliereGiu
The OLS estimator is BUE, on top of being BLUE, under classic Gauss-Markov conditions — check out @BruceEHansen’s new amazing #econometrica paper. Textbooks require some updating @jmwooldridge? Question: how much a BUE can depart from linearity?
11:05 AM · Feb 12, 2022
252 Reposts · 1.11K Likes
Joshua Goodman@JoshuaSGoodman
Roses are red
OLS was BLUE
Thanks to Bruce Hansen
Now it's just BUE
Giuseppe Cavaliere @CavaliereGiu
The OLS estimator is BUE, on top of being BLUE, under classic Gauss-Markov conditions — check out @BruceEHansen’s new amazing #econometrica paper. Textbooks require some updating @jmwooldridge? Question: how much a BUE can depart from linearity? https://t.co/Ci4J5S0vuw
11:11 PM · Feb 13, 2022
35 Reposts · 247 Likes
Gianluca Violante@glviolante
Intergenerational income mobility in Italy, a long 🧵 based on this paper, joint with Paolo Acciari (Italian Ministry of Finance) and @AlbrtPolo, now forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics
12:33 AM · Feb 7, 2022
152 Reposts · 863 Likes
Jonathan “Shill For The Ruling Class” Libgober@JlibDoesEcon
NEW(ish) WORKING PAPER
Coasian Dynamics under Informational Robustness
Thread below
7:00 PM · Feb 10, 2022
7 Reposts · 37 Likes
Jessica Leight@leightjessica
1/ Wanted to do a new #EconTwitter 🧵 following on my previous 🧵 about structural transformation in SSA
that is more ambitious: my favorite papers presenting causal evidence around structural transformation in dev world broadly
Jessica Leight @leightjessica
Caught up on this recent NBER WP on labor productivity growth and industrialization in Africa by McMillan and @AlbertZeufack
https://t.co/q6yHiNxjer
Offers a very useful overview of trends in manufacturing and structural transformation in SSA; worth quick 🧵 #EconTwitter
3:49 PM · Feb 7, 2022
20 Reposts · 62 Likes
Stephen Bates@stats_stephen
Excited to share a new, simple regression adjustment to get causal estimates with longitudinal data!
arxiv.org/abs/2201.13451
Causal inference with longitudinal data is hard!! Why? A 🧵👇
w/ @edwardhkennedy, @robtibshirani, V Ventura, and L Wasserman
1/n
5:43 PM · Feb 10, 2022
78 Reposts · 387 Likes
Joshua Deutschmann@JoshDeutschmann
Really enjoyed reading this new review by @SuriTavneet and @chrisudry in JEP. Some things that jumped out at me, focused especially on R&D:
7:57 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Jennifer Doleac@jenniferdoleac
🎉 New working paper! 🎉
“Registering Returning Citizens to Vote”
This is joint work with an amazing interdisciplinary team: @l_eckhouse @kindlyplease @AlliPatter @hlw_phd @ArielRWhite
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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12:29 PM · Feb 10, 2022
55 Reposts · 202 Likes
Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️@abhishekn
🚨 Working paper Alert! 🚨
New paper (w/ Aruna Ranganathan, @BerkeleyHaas ) on the impact of digitization on gender inequality in the Hindi film industry ("Bollywood")
Our basic story? Digitization *reduced* female share among playback singers
abhishekn.com/files/Nagaraj_…
🧵👇
7:14 PM · Feb 7, 2022
42 Reposts · 226 Likes
Ethan Mollick@emollick
🫖➡️🇬🇧➡️🏭
British tea drinking really did power the Industrial Revolution, by vastly increasing the health of the nation. This study shows that the practice of boiling water for tea lowered mortality rates by an amazing 25% in lower water-quality areas! direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…
7:11 PM · Feb 13, 2022
779 Reposts · 3.06K Likes
Public goods
Wei Yang Tham@wytham88
🚀🔬Public Good alert!🔬🚀 #EconTwitter
@vkbostwick, @SarahHBana, and I are excited to share a guide to postdocs in econ(-adjacent) fields!! We hope this is in time to be useful to current JMCs. See the Table of Contents for topics we cover (1/n)
wytham.rbind.io/post/postdoc-f…
4:57 PM · Feb 13, 2022
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Brendan Nyhan@BrendanNyhan
Academia is so confusing and hard to navigate, so want to share my list of the career advice articles and books that I've found most helpful - compiled over the last 18 years (ack) sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/academic…
7:05 PM · Feb 12, 2022
127 Reposts · 423 Likes
Jonathan A. Parker@ProfJAParker
The NBER gatherings will stream on YouTube to support broad dissemination of meeting content as we return to in-person conferences. The Summer Institute schedule may be found here:
nber.org
Summer Institute 2022
2:04 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Jenna Nobles@je_nobles
A large and carefully assembled data resource on early-life mortality
25 countries, 1,700 combined years, detailed breakdown by age, including week 1, month 1, trimester 1, year 1
Patrick Gerland @Patrick_Gerland
The Under-5 Mortality Database (U5MD) is a newly compiled database for under-5 mortality by detailed age from high-quality VR. It is freely accessible at https://t.co/9nkTGhHfY8 - It contains annual under-5 deaths by sex and age, for 25 countries from 1920 to recent years.
4:10 PM · Feb 10, 2022
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