Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 4, 2021 [1/2]

Jul 06, 2021

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 one of two, this week — part two is here.

Paper summary threads

Lee Crawfurd@leecrawfurd

Clever natural experiment on effects of breastfeeding Children born on weekends in UK are less likely to be breastfed as less support & advice is available in hospitals breastfeeding -> "large (positive) effects on childrens cognitive development" ifs.org.uk/wps/wp201331.p…

3:58 PM · Jun 30, 2021

13 Reposts · 60 Likes

Thiemo Fetzer@fetzert

I am delighted to see our paper Security Transitions is appearing in the July issue of the AER. Its perfect timing as NATO is in the final phase of withdrawal from Afghanistan after a 20 year long war that started following 9/11... 📰👉 bit.ly/3wYyqaF 🧵👇

2:59 PM · Jun 30, 2021

30 Reposts · 166 Likes

Nicola Limodio@NicolaLimodio

... they use these rates to study many interesting aspects of capital market development. The 2 most striking results are given by the pix below: 1) interest rates in China are nearly twice those in Britain; 2) bilateral interest rates correlation is lower & steeper in China...

3:12 PM · Jun 28, 2021

Caleb Watney@calebwatney

"Our model predicts that three-quarters of coal generation capacity will retire in the next twenty years, with most of that retirement concentrated in the next five years." nber.org/papers/w28949

3:19 PM · Jun 28, 2021

15 Reposts · 58 Likes

Tymon Słoczyński@TymonSloczynski

🚨 Working Paper Alert 🚨 "When Should We (Not) Interpret Linear IV Estimands as LATE?" (arxiv.org/abs/2011.06695) I am excited to share a new draft of my working paper. I have not written about this paper on Twitter before so ... here goes a thread. 1/n

6:12 PM · Jun 29, 2021

91 Reposts · 351 Likes

Arpit Gupta@arpitrage

Working paper by @xgabaix and @rkoijen on the inelastic markets. ht @paulgp. My thread on an earlier presentation here: nber.org/papers/w28967

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage

Thread on "In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations" by @xgabaix and @rkoijen. One of the most exciting agendas in asset pricing. See video (https://t.co/2ZuSPWi4f3). They estimate $1b investment in market -> $10b increase in price. How? 1/ https://t.co/2xi0cANfpA

3:40 PM · Jun 28, 2021

3 Reposts · 17 Likes

Brian Albrecht@BrianCAlbrecht

Excited about this update of my paper with @GuthmannR on the informational efficiency for different types of markets. How much information do different market structures need to communicate to implement the equilibrium? Now with fancy graphics 🕺 briancalbrecht.com/Guthmann_Albre…

6:08 PM · Jun 30, 2021

17 Reposts · 35 Likes

Abi Adams-Prassl@abicadams

A lot has been written about gender differences in the ability to work from home during Covid I've just revised my paper which uses detailed task level data to show that, even pre-Covid, women faced more interruptions when WFH with sig. implications for productivity 🧵

8:07 AM · Jun 28, 2021

55 Reposts · 178 Likes

Richard Holden@profholden

Should agents in an economy specialize early on in life, or experiment to discovery where their true talent really lies? This is an age-old question.@GuidoFriebel, Tobi Brunner, Suraj Prasad and I bring a career-concerns perspective to this in "Incentives to Discover Talent" 1/5

4:16 AM · Jul 4, 2021

2 Reposts · 23 Likes

More: regional heterogeneity and US election forecasting; startup acquisition theory; monetary union theory; new monetary shock series

Public goods

Jose M. Fernandez@UofLEcon

For those of you who are struggling with choosing between R, Python, and STATA. Let me introduce you to this lovely website that provides you statistical models across all three platforms. It is so appropriately named LOST. #EconTwitter

lost-stats.github.io

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10:54 PM · Jun 28, 2021

227 Reposts · 857 Likes

Interesting discussions

Alex Albright@AllbriteAllday

Made some ~metaplots~ using NBER ~metadata~ thelittledataset.com/2021/06/28/met… Teaser questions: - is it just me or do economists rly like using the verb "exploit"? - is DD or IV bigger rn? - what are the demos of NBER paper authors? - how often do people use :'s in titles? (🧵: 1/n)