Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 16, 2022 [1/3]
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Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 16, 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
👉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
‼️ Beyond religious attitudes, the reform led to
➡️more equalized gender roles,
➡️fewer marriages and children, and
➡️higher labor-market participation and earnings.
7/10
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
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
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.
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...🧵👇
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
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
Interesting discussions
Administrators keep saying students want in person instruction. I also polled my students: All but 1 wanted in person. I offered recordings anyways, and ~50% of the class opted out of in person the very next class, for the rest of the semester. How to interpret this?
Wow. When @akbarpour_ and I wrote about how auctioneers can bend the rules of an auction, this kind of behavior was exactly what we had in mind. 🧵
Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen 🐧 @leah_nylen
Stop funding research
(the way you do)
Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific
A thread (1/16)
Should economists stay in their lane?
Column by @SHamiltonian highlighting some popular misconceptions about economists: smh.com.au/national/criti…
Most people think that economists study economic growth, inflation, stocks.
In fact, most economists don't do that.
Thread🧵1/6
🚨 Attention users of CPS microdata 🚨
According to this guidance from Census, “2022 data for a household will not be able to be matched to any 2021 data.” In other words: no year-over-year CPS flows data for 2022. census.gov/content/dam/Ce…
@nick_bunker The same Census memo indicates hourly earnings will be rounded to nearest $.50 or dollar so it appears one can no longer identify wage spikes at exactly state minimum wage rates hindering minimum wage research as in the work of @arindube. Is that really the case?
Attn #econtwitter: if you think the Census is making a serious mistake here, please send an email to this address and register your complaint: DSD.CPS@census.gov
Nick Bunker @nick_bunker
