Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 22, 2023: interesting tweets
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Interesting discussions
Elliot Lipnowski@ElliotLip
Economic theory is full of surprising results that are easy to describe to a layperson. Thinking about upcoming teaching, some (below) came to mind.
What other ones come to mind?
[I'm abusing tweeetic license and omitting caveats needed to make all these statements correct.]
2:50 PM · Dec 30, 2021
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp
Updated my "research design" slides slightly this year after spending a lot of time thinking about it. github.com/paulgp/applied…
9:33 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Jon Steinsson@JonSteinsson
The 100 word limit for abstracts at Econ journals is too small (IMHO). I think it should be raised to 150 words.
7:50 PM · Jan 21, 2023
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^“Well my abstracts at least!”, as Cochrane puts it
Sylvain Catherine@sc_cath
An asset pays a $2 cash flow per year forever. The current market price of the asset is $100.
We introduce a 2% tax on the value of the asset. How much revenues will the tax raise per year?
1:41 AM · Jan 17, 2023
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Sasha Indarte@SashaIndarte
Hey #EconTwitter, with job market talk season underway, I thought I’d share some advice in case any candidates are finding/worrying that their presentations are too long. (1/n)
8:37 PM · Jan 16, 2023
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Florian Ederer@florianederer
What's your favorite single-authored paper of a person who is no longer in academia?
Mine's by Jesse Edgerton (now Two Sigma Investments) which shows that corporate executives no longer have private jets when their firms are taken over by private equity.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
1:48 AM · Jan 22, 2023
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David Evans@DaveEvansPhD
Publishing articles takes a lot of rejection!
My last 10 published articles were accepted at their nth journal, where n = 4, 4, 1, 11, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 3. (Yes, that's an 11, not a typo.)
#GetYourManuscriptBack #GetYourManuscriptBack #EventuallyItStaysAway
What's your experience?
10:47 PM · Jan 16, 2023
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Chris Blattman@cblatts
Here's the story of a city's response to spiking gun deaths. Of READI Chicago—an ambitious effort to build & study a program of jobs & CBT for the men most likely to shoot or be shot. Of HUGE success by some measures (64% fewer shooting & homicide arrests!) & no impact by others.
4:17 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Rach Against The Machine@economeager
One thing I learned from giving all those talks on one paper on the job market is the first slide of the talk should be the elevator pitch
2:19 AM · Nov 28, 2022
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AEA data legality policy
Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers
I'm really not sure how I feel about this. Think about how leaked docs and datasets are to investigative journalism, and while economists are not really in that game (much) these days, should we bar them from it?
Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) @TradeDiversion
"The AEA is implementing a new Data Legality Policy, effective for manuscripts first submitted after July 1, 2023. The Policy states all data used in papers published in the Association’s journals should be legally acquired." https://t.co/MDu151JoEG
Who will submit June 30?!
7:21 PM · Jan 18, 2023
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^seems like a hard topic for the peanut gallery to litigate over Twitter, but, here we are
Matt Collin@aidthoughts
The new @AEAjournals policy on illegal data is too broad & threatens to exclude a swath of research based on leaked data, crucial to our understanding of tax evasion and illicit flows
aeaweb.org/journals/data/…
e.g here are already-published papers that would have been excluded:
7:59 PM · Jan 18, 2023
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Miklos Koren@korenmiklos
@aidthoughts @AEAjournals Illegal data poses a serious question and the answer is not simply "don't do it." The @AeaData policy includes an exception for when societal gains outweigh risks. I think of it as an IRB for data.
8:03 AM · Jan 19, 2023
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^…Straussian?
Erzo F.P. Luttmer@Erzo_FP
Here is a thread with some background and clarifications on the AEA Data Legality Policy
AEA Information @AEAInformation
The AEA is implementing a new Data Legality Policy, effective for submissions after July 1, stating all data used in papers published in the @AEAjournals should be legally acquired. Learn more at https://t.co/PtSNOisZHx.
1:54 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Erzo F.P. Luttmer@Erzo_FP
The legality of some practices, such as scraping, is not settled but subject to ongoing court cases. As long as the legality of data is not settled, AEA editors will treat such data as legally acquired
1:54 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Ryan Hill@RyanReedHill
@imbernomics They’re following the lead of the big science journals. Nature has been cracking down on this, requiring to submit DUAs, etc.
1:53 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Fin
Chris Marsicano@ChrisMarsicano
I expect I'm going to get blasted for this by some, but here is my new ChatGPT policy for my Spring 2023 courses. I'm not banning it, just putting up guidelines as to its use. Explain to me why not banning it outright is a better policy. Change my mind.
3:57 PM · Jan 16, 2023
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Sandro Sharashenidze 🇬🇪🇺🇦@neocentrist
tbh should've also added a third venn diagram with citation styles
3:29 PM · Jan 22, 2023
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