Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 3, 2022 [4/3]

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 four of three — turns out the newsletter missed a lot of paper threads over the last ~month, so let’s dump them all in here. Gmail (and perhaps other services) will cut off the email for being too long: click through if you want to see everything.

Paper summaries

Alice Evans @_alice_evans

In kinship societies, families care for kids who later reciprocate. But in age-set societies, bands of brothers hunt together & have each others’ back. Even if they receive cash, they do not prioritise kids. PHENOMENAL paper by Moscona & @awaambraseck scholar.harvard.edu/files/awaambra…

Giuseppe Ippedico @PeppeIppedico

We find that emigration had a detrimental effect on firm creation, especially on firms owned by young entrepreneurs and start-ups w/high-growth potential. A one s.d. ↑ in emig rate (≈1.7% of working age pop) ↓ the number of firms created (on average) by 194 (≈4.8%) in 2008-15

Brendon McConnell @BrendonMcC

Are you planning a cluster RCT in which treatment clusters are more expensive than control ones? @papiteide and I show how to increase power in this @TheIFS working paper ifs.org.uk/publications/1… A short thread on what we do 1/8

James Evans @profjamesevans

Loved working with my amazing flat team of Fengli Xu and Lingfei Wu on our new PNAS paper "Flat Teams Drive Scientific Innovation" to show that relative to tall, hierarchical teams, flat, egalitarian ones produce more novelty and new directions for science pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Simon Galle @Simon__Galle

It's summer time in Belgium! What better time for a thread on the aggregate and distributional effects of trade? More specifically, about my "Slicing the Pie" paper with @Montrose1000 & @MoisesYi3, which is forthcoming at REStud. 1/n

Akshina @Akshina4

***NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT*** 1/15 Does incomprehensible language impact people's decisions? Using the domain of ethnic food and foreign language, @OlegUrminsky and I show that it does @

papers.ssrn.comAssociations with the Incomprehensible: Foreign Language Increases Authenticity Perceptions and PreferencesLanguage is pervasive and hence a common factor in people’s decision making. Prior research has mostly studied the effects of comprehensible language, language

Pierre Magontier @magontierp

🚨@mhenkelm, @eunjeeecon, and I are very proud to announce our new WP✌️ When a natural disaster occurs, people expect post-disaster aid... ➡️But did you know that post-disaster aid pushes more people into disaster-prone areas? Link: bit.ly/3H3KZHB Tldr? A short 🧵 1/9

Pierre Magontier @magontierp

🤯 We find that on-cycle hurricanes lead to higher transfers and a substantial sorting of individuals into the affected area..! ➡️ Post-disaster efforts matter for population sorting! 😍 Here, using Callaway and @pedrohcgs (2021) estimator 4/9

Kate Schneider (she/her) @DrKateSchneider

Very excited to see this work finally come to fruition. We (with coauthors @wamasters @DrPatrickWebb & Luc Christiaensen) developed a bounded cost of nutritious diets for whole households in Malawi using HH survey data and subnational food prices. Can't wait to know more? A🧵...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics @AJAE_AAEA

Forthcoming in the AJAE: "Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets," by Kate R. Schneider, Luc Christiaensen, Patrick Webb, and @wamasters https://t.co/ILsczzIYs6

Pushkar Maitra @maits225

Very happy that our paper Evaluating the distributive effects of a micro-credit intervention is now forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics. What do we do in this paper? A thread.... authors.elsevier.com/c/1fFNo_6wyKpE…

Cameron Deal @Cameron_Deal_

I have a new paper forthcoming in Economics Letters titled ‘Bound by Bostock: The effect of policies on attitudes.’ 🎊🎊🎊 doi.org/10.1016/j.econ…

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Billy Woo Mora @billywoom

Ethno-racial segregation in the US has persisted for decades. But can ethno-racial segregation persist for centuries? In our new WP with @luisbq_ and @enriquedlrosa we study the persistent effects of colonial segregation in Mexico: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #EconTwitter 🧵 1/10

Daniel Rodriguez-Segura @danrodseg

What happens to foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) when a national curriculum increases the amount of time that it mandates for teachers to spend on them in the early grades? Isaac Mbiti and I study a curriculum reform just like that in Tanzania for grades 1-2! 📚⏲️🧑🏾‍🏫 🇹🇿

Michael Kofoed @mikekofoed

Excited that my paper co-authored with @matthew_d_baird, Trey Miller, and Jennie Wenger is out today in @JPAM_DC! We use a neat id strategy to study how for-profit universities change their sticker price tuition to capture additional GI Bill dollars 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/152066…

Adi Shrinivas @AdiShrinivas

🚨New NBER working paper “Risk pooling and Precautionary savings in Village economies” with Marcel Fafchamps

NBER @nberpubs

A new method to test for efficient risk pooling allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences, from Marcel Fafchamps and Aditya Shrinivas https://t.co/q6AkOuxKoG https://t.co/a9O4h9DJdE

Jessica H. Brown @JHB_econ

Last week, we had a new NBER WP come out that I'm really excited about! Using a structural model, we estimate the impact of ⬆️ child care subsidies on child care use (by type), mother LFP & more. NBER WP - nber.org/papers/w30140

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @ewrigleyfield

New paper: "1918 Every Year: Racial Inequality in Infectious Mortality, 1906−1942" w @jamesfeigenbaum @LHoehnVelasco Chris Muller (Gated link; DM/email for PDF if need) What causes of death drove extreme racial inequality in infectious disease deaths?

aeaweb.org1918 Every Year: Racial Inequality in Infectious Mortality, 1906−1942(May 2022) - In the first half of the twentieth century, racial inequality in the rate of death from infectious disease was immense. In every year from 1906 to 1920, Black Americans in cities died from infectious diseases at a rate higher than that of urban White Americans during the 1918 influenza…

David Evans @DaveEvansPhD

In Vietnam, parents are able to accurately identify which teachers are most effective in teaching their students. riseprogramme.org/sites/default/… @anusha_guha at #RISEConf22

Maggie Jones @MaggieECJones

New WP out with @foley_kelly and @DonnFeir that evaluates the labour market returns to active labour market programs for Indigenous populations! TL;DR? Thread ⬇️ 1/N

NBER @nberpubs

The earnings returns to active labor market programs depend on the unique institutions affecting distinct Indigenous groups, from @drdonnalfeir, @foley_kelly, and @MaggieECJones https://t.co/jOtJZnl7ep https://t.co/2AjIuJ8Hdz

Adrian Adermon @adrianadermon

Can gig-jobs act as a stepping stone to more stable employment for individuals with high barriers to entry? Yes, to some extend — but only for the ethnic majority. @lenahensvik and I use a field experiment in Sweden to test this: doi.org/10.1016/j.labe…. (1/8)

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Cristina Bellés Obrero @Cristina_Belles

📣Our paper (with @Maria_Lombardi1) on the effects of teacher performance pay on student learning is finally out at Economic Development and Cultural Change! Check it out here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… 🧵👇(1/7)

journals.uchicago.eduTeacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru | Economic Development and Cultural Change: Vol 70…Abstract We study the impact of a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru. Public secondary schools compete in a tournament based on eighth graders’ performance in a standardized test. The principal and teachers of winning schools receive a substantial bonus. We perform a difference-i…

Piotr Lewandowski @ptrlewandowski

New article outin the World Bank Economic Review 🚨 Using survey data from 47 countries: • we find large international differences in the content of work within occupations • we explain those with diffs in technology, skill supply, globalization ➡️ academic.oup.com/wber/advance-a… 1/7

Michelle Escobar 🇺🇦 @MEscobarCarias

📢Beyond ecstatic to announce that our paper (with @davewjohnston, Rachel Knott & @rohsweeney) on the effects of flood disasters on the health of the urban poor is finally out at #HealthEconomics! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/hec.45… 🧵👇 (1/9)

Laura Schmitz @Laura_schmitz1

🚨New WP🚨 I study the effects of after-school care (ASC) ("Ganztagsschulen") in Germany. I ask 1. Are these programs beneficial for child development? 2. Do they foster social mobility? 3. Are we reaching the right students? Short answer: 1. Depends. 2. Yes! 3. Yes! For more👇

Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @Uptheleft

🚨🚨New paper🚨🚨: after 3 years of work, @MauFiaschetti Ben Heumann and I finally published our work on Rural-Urban typologies in the US on @EDQ_Journal, part of a special issue on #Rural #development. 🧵1/n w/link at the end.

David Ubilava @DavidUbilava

Our article (w/ Justin Hastings, @DrSarahPhillips, and Andrey Vasnev) on the role of conflict in commodity market integration in Somalia is now “in print” in the Journal of African Economies. I tweeted about this before, this is a refresher. (1/7)

academic.oup.comPrice Transmission in Conflict-Affected States: Evidence from Cereal Markets of SomaliaAbstract. How integrated are agricultural markets in conflict-affected states? We answer this question by examining the dynamics of monthly price series of rice

Juan Vargas @juanf_vargas

Huge news! 🎉🥳🍾 "A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime", the handbook I edited with @buonanno_paolo and @paolo_vanin, is coming out this October! #EconTwitter #PoliSciTwitter 🧵 (1/N)

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner

Really excited to share this new @nberpubs working paper with an amazing set of collaborators. We aim to quantify the impacts of expanded early care & education subsidies & care worker wage floors. More detail in 🧵here. Does a lot of ECE measurement and modeling innovation.

Chris M. Herbst @ChrisMHerbst

Child care is once again in the policy spotlight. To inform the debate, our new WP calibrates a model of the child care market to simulate the impact of two recent Congressional proposals: 1. Build Back Better Act 2. new CCDBG plan by Sens. @PattyMurray & @timkaine Thread👇 https://t.co/HVAKHzGOB6

Lorraine Wong @lorraine_wongmw

My paper "The effect of linguistic proximity on the labour market outcomes of the asylum population", is published in the Journal of Population Economics! Here is the full-text access view-only version: rdcu.be/cOV2a This is my 1st PhD paper and 🧵#EconTwitter 1/7

Jacob Wallace @jwswallace

Expanding coverage is an important step towards equity But, we must also reckon with large inequities within our public insurance programs — including Medicaid New piece @JAMAHealthForum w Chima Ndumele @anthony_lollo @kateduchowny @LavalleeMat2 1/9

jamanetwork.comDisparities in Health Care Spending and Utilization Among Black and White Medicaid EnrolleesThis cross-sectional study examines whether and to what extent there are differences in health care spending and utilization between Black and White enrollees in Medicaid.