Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 24, 2022 [2/4]
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This is part two of four.
Paper summaries
Dani Sandler@dhsandler
📢New Census Working Paper📢 "Diversity and Labor Market Outcomes in the Economics Profession" by @Lucia_Econ, @ErikaMcentarfer, and @dhsandler census.gov/library/workin…
8:54 PM · Jul 20, 2022
36 Reposts · 89 Likes
Dani Sandler@dhsandler
For initial placements, the first year post-PhD, we find placements into academia are falling and placements in government and tech firms are rising (3/18)
8:58 PM · Jul 20, 2022
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Dani Sandler@dhsandler
At initial placement, economists in government earn only 85% of the earnings of their counterparts in industry at the median. Academic economists earn only 77% of industry economists at the median (8/18)
9:03 PM · Jul 20, 2022
3 Reposts · 4 Likes
^lots of interesting graphs
Devin Pope@Devin_G_Pope
The figure below shows the main effect by plotting the level of alcohol consumption in the 2 years before and the 2 years after someone moves to a state with higher overall alcohol consumption. The environment matters a lot! It explains 2/3 of the variation across the US.
6:08 PM · Jul 19, 2022
1 Repost · 14 Likes
Kai Ruggeri@kairuggeri
People of all incomes & backgrounds prefer immediate rewards over larger, delayed ones. 170-author, 61-country study in @NatureHumBehav shows econ. inequality, inflation, & instability disrupt financial many decisions. Multiple, major policy implications.
nature.com/articles/s4156…
3:07 PM · Jul 11, 2022
225 Reposts · 687 Likes
Stefanie Stantcheva@S_Stantcheva
Why are we not doing more to fight climate change? New study surveys 40k people in 20 countries to understand 1/ what drives support/opposition to important climate policies 2/ how much people know about climate change & 3/ how info can change perceptions scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche…
1:16 PM · Jul 20, 2022
372 Reposts · 1.06K Likes
Ryan Kellogg@RyanMKellogg
Excited to release nber.org/papers/w30263 with @BorensteinS, which we could have titled “Everything we thought we knew about market mechanisms for dramatically reducing electricity sector greenhouse gas emissions is wrong”. Thread:
7:35 PM · Jul 18, 2022
191 Reposts · 626 Likes
Jakob Schneebacher@j_schneebacher
Brandeisian ideas are back in antitrust. But what can we learn from the historical events that created the original cartel backlash? A 🧵 about @jhuang_econ's great recent paper on the dynamic effects of collusion in the Chicago meatpacking industry. 1/
jingyi-huang.com/files/Huang_mo…
jingyi-huang.com
7:35 AM · Jul 22, 2022
1 Repost · 7 Likes
Robert Dur@DurRobert
Strong evidence of employer discrimination against veiled Muslim women in 🇳🇱:
🔹almost 70% of job applications that included a photograph such as the one on the left received a positive callback
🔹only 35% if a photograph was included such as the one on the right
🧵 1/
5:43 PM · Jul 20, 2022
3.44K Reposts · 13.8K Likes
Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon
A new index to measure geographic partisan sorting shows that spatial cleavages have increased dramatically in the past 50 years in the US, particularly across counties.
Yet, the electorate continues to be more diverse within than across communities.
9:28 PM · Jul 20, 2022
1 Like
Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon
Who participated in Hong Kong's antiauthoritarian protests?
Participants in modest and massive protests are especially pro-social; economic preferences predict participation better than personality or class; preference falsification does not explain explosive protests.
9:56 PM · Jul 20, 2022
1 Repost · 1 Like
Interesting discussions
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
I think this is a misrepresentation of the state of the evidence on deworming, and I think it's disappointing that it's getting so much play.
Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenmark
Pretty baffling piece. There is essentially no evidence that mass deworming delivers on any of its stated promises but people keep finding excuses not to stop doing it. https://t.co/V3L6dmqtkQ
5:17 PM · Jul 19, 2022
37 Reposts · 311 Likes
^thread
Josh Dean@josh_t_dean
1) Go to Filters and Blocked Addresses in settings
2) Create a filter for emails from *@*.edu (this will grab all emails sent from .edu email addresses)
3) Click "Create filter" and then check "Never send it to Spam"
Still not perfect, but a whole lot better
5:06 PM · Jul 21, 2022
8 Likes
Kai Gehring@KaiGehring1
Something is wrong with economics as a science as long as there remains such a strong US bias.
Too many papers that are purely US-focused, have little relevance for the rest of the world or dont even try to make a connection. And published in the best "global" economics journals
12:22 PM · Jul 19, 2022
43 Reposts · 295 Likes
Hanno Lustig@HannoLustig
1/Macro-economics is still quite US-centric, and so, many of us implicitly use the US as **the benchmark**. But the US is quite different from most countries. Especially when it comes to fiscal capacity.
12:47 PM · Jul 20, 2022
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