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
Jeanet Sinding Bentzen@JeanetBentzen
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
9:14 AM · Jan 21, 2022
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Oliver Pfäuti@PfaeutiEcon
New paper, joint with @FSeyrich!
𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥
Link: opfaeuti.github.io/website/BTHANK…
⬇️Short Thread⬇️
6:55 PM · Jan 23, 2022
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Robert Dur@DurRobert
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
11:03 AM · Jan 21, 2022
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Luis Garicano@lugaricano
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
8:32 PM · Jan 20, 2022
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Lukas Freund@_LukasFreund_
📜 & @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
🚨New #workingpaper🚨
Interested in #digitalization and #inequality? Then check out the new draft of my paper “Consumption Inequality in the Digital Age” which is joint work with Katja Mann. (1/6)
https://t.co/iSrGgkrib3
3:15 PM · Jan 22, 2022
1 Repost · 6 Likes
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
Joshua Gans@joshgans
Just discovered this fantastic webpage that gives every possible teaching graph for economics that you would ever want all manipulable on the web. Fantastic.
econgraphs.org
EconGraphs
4:06 PM · Jan 22, 2022
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Grant McDermott@grant_mcdermott
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
Introducing https://t.co/v2AOAlSB8v w @nickchk and @grant_mcdermott
Hopefully makes the Stata -> R pipeline much easier.
- data-wrangling with {data.table}
- regression analysis with {fixest}
These packages are blazingly fast 🏃🏻💨, highly powerful 💪🏻😎, and flexible 👌✨ https://t.co/cUviOGRVHj
5:45 PM · Jan 18, 2022
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Douglas K G Araujo@DouglasKGAraujo
#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:
github.com
GitHub - dkgaraujo/OpenSourcedMacroModels: A best-efforts collection of open-sourced macroeconomic models run by central banks and other official sector agencies (ie, ministries of economy)
9:38 AM · Jan 22, 2022
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Interesting discussions
Sharat Ganapati@sharatganapati
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
tenured folks drop your salary in the comments challenge
7:33 PM · Jan 22, 2022
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Tatyana Deryugina@TDeryugina
AcademicSequitur.com data for 2020-2021 show that COVID-related publications are now endemic.
1:01 PM · Jan 17, 2022
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Khoa Vu@KhoaVuUmn
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
@london_econ @anup_malani @causalinf @nytimes @arpitrage @KhoaVuUmn That's basically right (though it was 7 chapters, not 8)
Source: https://t.co/18HSJkqS44 https://t.co/d9eKLw4JaJ
7:59 PM · Jan 23, 2022
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