Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 23, 2022 [2/2]
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 two of two. Part one is here.
Paper summary threads
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Did religion facilitate modern growth? Or was it a stumbling block?
Using data for 912 cities and 500,000 individuals born throughout Europe during the past 700 years, we find evidence for the latter.
New @cepr_org wp w/ @larsharhoff: tinyurl.com/yytkbavd
More details below
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New paper, joint with @FSeyrich!
𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥
Link: opfaeuti.github.io/website/BTHANK…
⬇️Short Thread⬇️
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How common is sexual harassment at work?
Swedish data show:
🔹13% of women report harassment during last 12 months
🔹this increases to 25% in strongly male-dominated workplaces
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ma0U6i… by @OlleFolke & @johannarickne
How about other countries? ➡🧵1/3
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![Twitter avatar for @lugaricano](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/lugaricano.jpg)
The US manufacturing labor share has fallen since the 80s by 16 points. Why?
@EconTraina (a @UChicago job mkt candidate) explores THE obvious hypothesis: rising firm market power over workers.
It appears the logical explanation is correct.
drive.google.com/file/d/1VojXQk…
1/5
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![Twitter avatar for @_LukasFreund_](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/_LukasFreund_.jpg)
📜 & @voxeu column by @KaiArvai & K. Mann
👉22.5% of ⏫ in US consumption inequality 1960-2017 due to a "price channel": high-income households have a higher share ICT share of consumption and thus benefit more from price declines in ICT-intensive products due to digitalisation.
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![Twitter avatar for @KaiArvai](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/KaiArvai.jpg)
Kai Arvai @KaiArvai
More: effect of health insurance for kids on mothers; citation inequality; elections and financial markets; India demonetization and taxes; firing restrictions and business cycles; “misinformation”; UI automatic triggers or not; stock market random walks; IPV experiment; Polish cash transfer program
Public goods
![Twitter avatar for @joshgans](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/joshgans.jpg)
Just discovered this fantastic webpage that gives every possible teaching graph for economics that you would ever want all manipulable on the web. Fantastic.
![Twitter avatar for @grant_mcdermott](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/grant_mcdermott.jpg)
Side-by-side code chunks in both Stata & R for anyone looking to learn one language or the other. Covers 90% of what you need 👇
This was a fun side project to work on with @nickchk & @kylefbutts. Nick you know (buy his book!) Kyle you should (hiring committees keep an eye out).
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ky @kylefbutts
![Twitter avatar for @DouglasKGAraujo](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/DouglasKGAraujo.jpg)
#EconTwitter I am putting together a list of open-sourced macro models (DSGE, etc) that are used in practice by central banks and ministries of finance. This should be helpful to economists, #PhD students, and RAs. You can find the list here:
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Interesting discussions
![Twitter avatar for @sharatganapati](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/sharatganapati.jpg)
For all the economists out there, these are the numbers. They pass the smell test. B-Schools are higher
Assistant Prof at R1: 140K (185K at Top 15)
Associate Prof at R1: 160K (215K at Top 15)
Full Prof at R1: 220K (330K at Top 15)
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
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alyssa corinne smith @_alyssacsmith
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Daron Acemoglu wrote 7 chapters for his PhD dissertation. His examiner said the weakest 3 were more than enough to pass. Why am I not surprised by this 😂😂😂
![Twitter avatar for @ProfNoto](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/ProfNoto.jpg)
Matt Notowidigdo @ProfNoto