Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 5, 2020
We only send the best tweets, but this week we’ve got a lot of good tweets.
As always, recommendations are welcome over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
Don’t miss the virtual NBER SI!
Anyone interested in NBER summer Institute conference.nber.org/confer/, anyone can now watch conference.nber.org/confer/2020SI_…
Some groups are polished presentations of finished economics papers, others are work in progress and lots of discussion. Not sure how this all shakes out on zoom.
New papers
Super excited to share my new NBER WP with @shenhav_n
"Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth", available at nber.org/papers/w27444
Summary thread below. 1/N
We have a new discussion paper out: "A Global Decline in Research Productivity? Evidence from China and Germany" (w/ @Philipp_Boeing, who just joined twitter, so please all follow! #ff). ➡️ zew.de/en/publikation…
#Productivity #Growth #Innovation #RnD #TechnologicalChange
New methods review with @Ingar30 and @JoWohlfart on design of information provision experiments, which have become very popular in economics: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom… 1/n
Excited to share a paper of mine released this week, joint with Aymeric Bellon, Erik Gilje and Rawley Heimer.
This my first ever NBER working paper (thanks to Erik), a cool feeling.
Here's a thread with some key figures 1/
NBER @nberpubs
Just released version 2.0 of working paper w/ my fantastic co-author @rotmanschool Stefan Dimitriadis:
Social Skills Improve Business Performance:
Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo
Newly-published papers
My paper on Common Ownership in American with Matt Backus and Mike Sinkinson was recently accepted at AEJ:Micro. We ask the simple question: how much common ownership is there in the US economy? how much has that changed? and what drove it? chrisconlon.github.io/site/common_ow… 1/
How does the mortality-temperature relationship vary across US climate regions, and what does this tell us about climate adaptation and the geographic distribution of climate damages?
We use over 2 decades of Medicare data to explore these questions in our forthcoming paper.
The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal
This paper (joint with Autor, Dorn, and Hanson) has been long in the making and I am very happy about the final product. A thread on the main findings of the paper follows. 1/10
AEA Journals @AEAjournals
[THREAD] I am pleased to report that Danny Shoag's and my paper on 'Ban the Box" measures is at long last forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics.
See also:
Interesting discussion here by @stanveuger on contrasting some differing estimates in the literature on Ban-the-Box policies measuring whether racial discrimination is an unintended by-product
Stan Veuger @stanveuger
Announcements
.@maya_rossin & I are co-organizing a (virtual!) mentoring program for 3rd & 4th year women & non-binary econ PhD students.
Bad news: We won't be meeting in NOLA as originally planned.
Good news: We can accommodate more people!
Deadline to apply: 7/31
aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm…
New at the EJ! You can now also submit short papers, in the same format as AER-Insights (<6,000 words, 5 exhibits). Submissions should be self-contained and are expected to be of the same standard as regular submissions.
#Econtwitter We are very excited to announce this mentoring workshop for 3rd and 4th year female PhD students in the greater New England area! It will take place online on Oct 3rd. A little more info below 1/4
BU Economics @bu_economics
Good discussion in the replies
It's official, my classes are too large and will be online this fall. Want to give my students as good an experience as possible, so...
What were your 1-2 favorite things (tech, methodology, etc) you did online last spring that you think improved the student experience the most?
