Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 16, 2022 [3/3]

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 three of three. Part one is here and part two is here.

Paper summary threads

Arindrajit Dube @arindube

Key finding: if you've got a college degree, your incomes are correspondingly higher in high COL areas, keeping expenditure equal across areas. But for those without one, wages in high COL areas don't compensate enough. If you're a low-wage worker, avoid San Francisco!

Dany Bahar @dany_bahar

Excited to share with you all my newest piece of research, together with great coauthors @prithwic @SaraSgnr & James Sappenfield, on the role of immigrant inventors reshaping the global geography of innovation! hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio… 8 tweets-thread w/ main findings 1/7

Robert Dur @DurRobert

How do couples divide domestic work? Women do much more. "a woman would need to be over 100 times more productive in market work than her male partner before reaching expected parity in domestic work." journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… by @SiminskiPeter and Rhiannon Yetsenga in JOLE

Daniel Gottlieb @danielgott

When selling health insurance, companies usually offer many plans, employers offer a few options, and governments rarely offers different plans. Which one is optimal? @VictoriaMarone_ and @AdrienneSabety answer this question in a really nice paper (just out at the AER).🧵(1/5)

UT-Austin Economics @UTAustinEcon

Research by Victoria Marone ("When Should There Be Vertical Choice in Health Insurance Markets?") is featured in the new issue of the American Economic Review. @VictoriaMarone_ https://t.co/Y7lMTQNOnQ

Robert Dur @DurRobert

Powerful evidence for traditional economic theory in a context that is not often studied: The case of panhandling at Metrorail stations in Washington: peterleeson.com/Hobo_Economicu… by Peter Leeson et al "Panhandlers choose stations as homo economicus would" Forthcoming in EJ @EJ_RES

Ashley Whillans@ @ashleywhillans

In partnership the @BusaraCenter (Salome, Jennifer & Pauline, thank-you!), we designed a lab-in-the-field experiment to test the causal benefits of reducing the burden of unpaid labor for N=1,550 working mothers in Kibera - the largest informal settlement in Kenya. 3/11

Lionel Page @page_eco

Fascinating paper on the history of Behavioural Economics. It shows how the field progressively split in different subfields: social preferences, risk & uncertainty, time prefces… by @alxndr_trc 👇 Citation networks in the 1980s (left) vs 2000s (right) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur

Lant Pritchett on "Literacy and School Attendance: A Recent History" riseprogramme.org/blog/literacy-… Here's the latest draft of our paper that he discusses, with @Alenestour and @lhmosco. Feedback always welcome. cgdev.org/sites/default/…

^blog post version here

Anya Martin @AnyaMartin8

New paper on the city-wide effect of new housing supply in Helsinki. Impressively, researchers secured access to the Finnish total population register, and were able to prove that newly built homes enable "moving chains" and free up more affordable homes.

ideas.repec.orgCity-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains,We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using geo-coded total population register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of new market rate u

Ben Moll @ben_moll

Almost 10(!) years after starting to work on this project it's great to finally see this in print :-) academic.oup.com/restud/article… benjaminmoll.com/HACT/ 1/

More: labor earnings after becoming a parent; velocity and ICOs; why do people think rich people are rich; retail sales impact of Goya boycott; Twitter misinfo measurement

Interesting discussions

Joshua Goodman @JoshuaSGoodman

I recently rejected an article and suggested another very respected journal to the author. He said the journal I named wouldn't count for tenure because it wasn't on a certain list at his institution.

Joshua Goodman @JoshuaSGoodman

So I e-mailed the editor-in-chief of that journal and said, "Get on the list." She said (paraphrasing), "We're on it. And by the way, your very respected journal wouldn't count much for tenure at my institution."

Jacob Robbins @thesugar

Nice thread for those who will be teaching economics on Zoom for the start of the semester at least.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp

So I'm officially teaching the first two weeks for my half-semester MBA class online (with the hope that the rest will be in person). Any thoughts on good ways to keep the students excited / pumped in these two weeks?

Kevin J.S. Zollman @KevinZollman

A little while ago @DarianWoods asked me: what are good movies and TV shows that use game theory? Doesn't have to be explicit use, but a cool example or something.