Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 10, 2022 [2/3]
www.bestofecontwitter.com
Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 10, 2022 [2/3]
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 two of three.
Late edition here — this is for the prior week!
Paper summaries
This fig shows the key insight - more publications from a given author in a journal after a coauthor joins the board; from an impressive sample of 106 journals over 22 yrs
^bigger effects for women and early career researchers
I have a new working paper out with a great team of co-authors. osf.io/hsgkp In it, we examine retrospective power in political science using meta-analyses. We find that power is *very* low. Below is a thread with a few key details and results.
We gathered data on 16k hypothesis tests from all 46 meta-analytic articles in political science where we could get data (details in paper). We can see if we have selection on stat. significance by graphing the z-scores from the tests. No surprises here, but still sad to see this
^cf: The Bias for Statistical Significance in Sport and Exercise Medicine
Across 21 countries, the left has lost most support among low education, high income voters. Left gained most among high education, high income votes, but only reached parity there. So left support is now concentrated among high education low income voters
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
^more miscellaneous polisci twitter this week: electoral accountability; bureaucracy oversight; politics of succession; cheating in online surveys
Bridges psychology lit on reasoning as System 1 (automatic/associative) and System 2 (analytical), with the economics tools of mental info acquisition subject to costly cognition. Endogenous, policy-variant cognitive biases emerge. Predict high MPC of rich + Hand-to-Mouth agents.
QJE @QJEHarvard
Are most people really loss-averse? Not really!
Around 50% of the US population is loss-tolerant and many people accept negative expected-value gambles.
Fascinating new paper by Chapman, @snowberg, Wang & @CFCamerer that completely changed my priors:
cesifo.org/en/publikation…
^teachers are #1; social scientists are #12 😊
New paper with @matt_brundage_ and @SooSunYou1: "Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs." It's a review paper which identifies a common theme with many applications: people form beliefs as if what they experience is representative of wider populations.
osf.io/p49at
Really interesting paper studying the impact of Texas's roll-backs of access to family planning and abortion services, h/t @TNG512
nber.org/system/files/w…
Interesting discussions
There are two popular ways to access economics research and its impact, RePEc and Google Scholar. A short thread 🧵…1/n #EconTwitter
🚨Data Viz: Forty years of education polarization in a GIF.🚨
Education polarization has drastically reshaped American politics over the last decade, but the trend goes back further. Let's look at education and race on the county level since 1980:
(1/6)
