Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 16, 2022 [1/3]

Jan 18, 2022

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

Ludger Woessmann@Woessmann

👉We find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced religiosity of affected students in adulthood. Effect size: .07 std. dev. = 3 percentage-point reduction in “religious” people 5/10

7:02 AM · Jan 11, 2022

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Ludger Woessmann@Woessmann

‼️ Beyond religious attitudes, the reform led to ➡️more equalized gender roles, ➡️fewer marriages and children, and ➡️higher labor-market participation and earnings. 7/10

7:02 AM · Jan 11, 2022

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Robert Dur@DurRobert

The far-reaching consequences of becoming a victim of crime: Victimisation results in large and lasting earning losses — especially (but not only) for those who also suffer severe health impacts. Evidence from 🇳🇱: doi.org/10.1086/718515 by @AnnaBindler and @nadineketel in JOLE

10:24 PM · Jan 12, 2022

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Jason Furman@jasonfurman

Amazing. I didn't think Alan Blinder's offshoring predictions had borne out but didn't realize the reason: we've had inshoring instead in the form of more work from home.

Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior

At the AEA meeting and in the week since I have heard several mentions of Alan Blinder's paper from mid 2000s predicting that 25% of jobs would be offshored. Makes me realize that the economics field is very unaware of my 2019 paper, so a quick thread....

3:09 PM · Jan 13, 2022

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Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior

So maybe his measure was just bad, right? It didn't really capture anything about the nature of the job? I think it was a good measure, because what it did predict a decade later was the % of the occupation that was work from home.

2:30 PM · Jan 13, 2022

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Evan Rose@evankrose

Here's a short new paper on what constructivist theories of race mean for empirical discrimination research ekrose.github.io/files/construc… I survey a huge literature from (mostly) outside econ about racial perceptions and discrimination law on the way to two basic points...🧵👇

ekrose.github.io

1:55 PM · Jan 14, 2022

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Josh Kalla@j_kalla

Check out our new field experiment testing the persuasive effect of TV ads on prejudice and issue opinions (open access: escholarship.org/uc/item/29g8h5…)

APSA @APSAtweets

How do TV ads by interest groups affect their viewers’ opinions on issues? In their new @APSRjournal letter, @j_kalla & @dbroockman find that interest group ads influence viewers’ ability to recall the ads and learn facts but had limited impact on… https://t.co/aT958kXc8z

5:23 PM · Jan 10, 2022

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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert

Pretty notable mechanism: "These gains are driven primarily by the exit of older workers who retire when more productive managers take over". Data from Italy.

Robert Dur @DurRobert

How much do managers matter for productivity in the public sector? 🔹better managers achieve higher output with significantly smaller staff size 🔹no effect on quality 🔹female managers are on average better https://t.co/Ygw77Qt7Wh by @AFenizia, forthcoming in Econometrica https://t.co/XnBKDrfqDN

3:49 PM · Jan 16, 2022

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