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
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
New paper, joint with @FSeyrich!
𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥
Link: opfaeuti.github.io/website/BTHANK…
⬇️Short Thread⬇️
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
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
📜 & @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.
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
Just discovered this fantastic webpage that gives every possible teaching graph for economics that you would ever want all manipulable on the web. Fantastic.
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).
ky @kylefbutts
#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:
Interesting discussions
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…
alyssa corinne smith @_alyssacsmith
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 😂😂😂
Matt Notowidigdo @ProfNoto