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
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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***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 @
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🚨@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
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🤯 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
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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🧵...
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics @AJAE_AAEA
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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…
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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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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
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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! 📚⏲️🧑🏾🏫 🇹🇿
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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…
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🚨New NBER working paper “Risk pooling and Precautionary savings in Village economies” with Marcel Fafchamps
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NBER @nberpubs
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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NBER @nberpubs
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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)
![Twitter avatar for @Cristina_Belles](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/Cristina_Belles.jpg)
📣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…
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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…
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📢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…
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🚨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👇
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🚨🚨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.
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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)
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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
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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.
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Chris M. Herbst @ChrisMHerbst