Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 19, 2020
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New papers
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🚨New paper🚨
States play an important role in the age of data-intensive innovation. Evidence from AI firms in China + Macro implications of government data provision to firms.
See it Thursday July 16th, 11ET, @ NBER Income Distribution and Macro: nber.org/si2020livestre…
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NEW PAPER: Some insurance plans increase beneficiary mortality, but consumers (mostly) can’t tell which ones. Getting rid of the worst 5% of Medicare Advantage plans could save 10,000 lives/year …d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/faculty/wp-con… (w/ @autoregress, @AmandaStarc1, and @mmcaceresb
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🚨New working paper with @michaelcbailey, Kuchler, @DomRussel and State.
We explore the determinants and effects of social connectedness across European NUTS2 regions, using a European version of the Social Connectedness Index (SCI) from Facebook. (1/N)
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CESifo @CESifoGroup
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New paper thread time! Here's an overview of a paper I presented yesterday at NBER SI Productivity, with some bonus results I didn't have time for
tl;dr -- public research grants have effects all over the place, and we can finally start to quantify these spillovers!
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In new #JPMCInstitute research institute.jpmorganchase.com/institute/rese… we look at spending responses to $600 UI Supplement. BOTTOM LINE: UI is providing crucial spending support for the economy, and if we cut to zero on July 31, expect bad effects. Details in Thread:
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New working paper on the origins of spatial inequality in Africa with @YannickPengl, Robert Marty, Kyle Sorlie Titlow & Nicolas van de Walle up @Oxford_CSAE
Short thread for those interested
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Newly-published papers
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My paper, Persistent Norms and Tipping Points: The Case of Female Genital Cutting, is out in JEBO! CliffsNotes version in thread.
Ungated for the next 30 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1bOnNc24av91…
#EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter
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My paper "(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets" is forthcoming at AJPS🥳. I use surveys and web visit data + a machine classifier to study online news consumption in 2015-2016. Get ready for a THREAD!
Preprint: dropbox.com/s/3rjsnp8k3im7…
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I have a popular joke tweet but no soundcloud to promote.
I DO have a nerdy paper that I've long wanted to tweet.
It's about how a group negotiates to trade favors (e.g., disease mitigation), and how this is ultimately a problem in network theory.
bengolub.net/papers/jmp-4pg…
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Public goods
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🙀 New dataset on Wiki citations from patents
💬 100k+ citations to Wiki coming from worldwide patents. Includes a large majority of Wikipedia pages
📢 Wikipedia researchers, we are looking for your ideas/feedback
🛢️ tinyurl.com/ya6cenkr
📝 tinyurl.com/y96o9de5
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I've been working on an intuitive and accessible intro textbook on causality and research design. It's going pretty well, Volume 1 almost done. I'll be posting chapters from the book, one per week. Link here, and I'll update this thread with chapters
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Announcements
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🚨 Please RT! 🚨
One of the best events of the year in economic theory is online, open to all this year: The Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory.
There’s an amazing lineup of talks covering a broad range of areas in theory.
gtcenter.org/?page=Conferen…
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New advice on "Papers Previously Submitted to the American Economic Review and AER: Insights" [for AEJ-Policy & rest of the AEJs] aeaweb.org/journals/pol/a…
[Also, re-tweeting my earlier thread on AEJ-Policy & AEJ-Applied below]
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Matt Notowidigdo @ProfNoto
Discussion of the week: effects of the pandemic on the profession
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Academic twitter--will there be a job market at all this year for assistant profs at top 25 U.S. research uni's? Are there *any* that have not announced hiring freezes? It makes a difference for student planning if the U.S. market will be "just dismal," or entirely dead
^discussion in the replies
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Our AEA committee on the #EconJobMarket has released some new data. YTD, the # of new jobs on JOE is down 24.0% relative to the previous 3 years. More info here:
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The enrollment of new international students at U.S. universities in the fall 2020-21 academic year is projected to decline 63% to 98% from the 2018-19 level, per @NFAPResearch, possibly to lowest level since WW2. Plummeting for several reasons... /thread
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Interesting new optional requirement.
“Recruiters can now request that an applicant submit a link to a video presentation of their job market paper, or a general video presentation of themselves, as part of their application.” https://t.co/RPCiDo3XLe
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Econ Job Market @EconJobMarket
^RIP 2021 AEAs