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Jul 5, 2022
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Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

This is part one of three.

Paper summaries

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Edoardo Teso @edoardoteso
We combine matched employer-employee data, data on identity of business owners, and partisan affiliation data. We document strong political assortative matching (PAM) - even stronger than matching along gender and racial lines.
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5:14 PM ∙ Jun 27, 2022

^see also: “Executive teams in U.S. firms are becoming increasingly partisan”

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica
Interesting new paper in AEJ-App #EconTwitter by @FitzsimonsEmla @papiteide analyzing effect of breastfeeding on child outcomes; exploits the fact that in the UK, births taking place close to the weekend result in lower rates of bf'ing, b/c support services more limited
5:40 PM ∙ Jun 29, 2022
45Likes12Retweets
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica
Core result captured in the graph - highest breastfeeding rates, and highest cognitive scores up to age 7, for those born in the middle of the wk; no effects on health
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5:40 PM ∙ Jun 29, 2022
8Likes2Retweets

^Emily Oster wonders about weak IV

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Alice Evans @_alice_evans
Iron and cavalry adoption in 1000 BCE in Eurasia is correlated with an abrupt shift in social scale. War (really does) make states!
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6:24 AM ∙ Jun 29, 2022
42Likes10Retweets

^Turchin…

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Jakob Schneebacher @j_schneebacher
Does increased concentration also distort public policy? Time for another 🧵, this time on the new @bocowgill, @andreapratnyc and @TomValletti paper on market power and lobbying. 1/ arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13612…
9:57 AM ∙ Jul 1, 2022
31Likes17Retweets
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Alistair Macaulay @AlistairMacaul7
For any given macro event, there are typically many interpretations circulating in the media. Do these different narratives have any effect on beliefs? Can a story going viral affect aggregate sentiment? In a new WP, Wenting Song @bankofcanada & I take a look. Short answer: yes!
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9:37 PM ∙ Jul 1, 2022
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Interesting discussions

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The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies
📢 **REStud Page Limit** With effect from 1st July 2022, a page limit policy applies to all submissions. Papers should be under 45 pages. Online appendices should not exceed 30 pages. A “grace period” is in place until 15th August 2022. For more details: restud.com/submissions/#m…
restud.comSubmissions | The Review of Economic Studies
11:14 AM ∙ Jun 30, 2022
281Likes43Retweets

^some criticism below for the sake of completeness, but, :

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Jeffrey Ely @Jeffely
the problem with this is that authors just move stuff to the "online" appendix. questions: 1. is the online appendix part of the paper? 2. is it refereed? if the answer to either of those questions is yes then this is simply a policy that papers should 75 pages or less.
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The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies
📢 **REStud Page Limit** With effect from 1st July 2022, a page limit policy applies to all submissions. Papers should be under 45 pages. Online appendices should not exceed 30 pages. A “grace period” is in place until 15th August 2022. For more details: https://t.co/133Nb1zj1F
10:54 PM ∙ Jun 30, 2022
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Zach Ward @EconZach
True story, one time I forgot to attach an online appendix to a submission and nobody noticed (this was an R&R too)
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The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies
📢 **REStud Page Limit** With effect from 1st July 2022, a page limit policy applies to all submissions. Papers should be under 45 pages. Online appendices should not exceed 30 pages. A “grace period” is in place until 15th August 2022. For more details: https://t.co/133Nb1zj1F
3:54 PM ∙ Jun 30, 2022

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Heidi L. Williams @heidilwilliams_
We talk a lot about the value of research, randomization, and experimentation in metascience, and I wanted to share an example of how these can be embedded in practice, even at a small scale. Brief thread 🧵:
4:12 PM ∙ Jun 29, 2022
123Likes21Retweets
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Denny Borsboom @BorsboomDenny
I found out my university doesn’t subscribe to Nature Human Behaviour, so I asked why. Librarian: because when the journal started in 2017, it was nothing but “Human Behaviour” with the prefix “Nature”, while subscription costs were ten times higher than normal. 1/10 🧵
7:58 PM ∙ Jun 26, 2022
1,481Likes386Retweets
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David Evans @DaveEvansPhD
Real-life terrible comments from paper reviewers, and how to be better! deryugina.com/how-to-be-a-co… by @TDeryugina
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8:36 PM ∙ Jun 30, 2022
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