Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 3, 2022 [3/3]
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This is part three of three.
Paper summaries
Jeanet Sinding Bentzen@JeanetBentzen
Powerful men have always used religion to hold on to their power. Throughout modern history, everywhere on the globe, and from all the major religions.
And this hurts democracy.
We use detailed data to generalize old facts in new paper forthcoming in @j_econ_growth.
3:05 PM · Jun 29, 2022
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Ater, Itai@AterItai
We study the effects of a price transparency regulation in Israeli supermarkets that became effective in 6/2015. While transparency regulations were adopted in various industries (e.g., gasoline, healthcare) we know little about their actual impact on market outcomes 3\
10:33 AM · Jun 28, 2022
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Ater, Itai@AterItai
retailers adopted a uniform pricing strategy shortly after the regulation became effective. Here's a graph that demonstrates the change in the number of unique prices a product is sold for before and after prices became transprent. 8\
10:33 AM · Jun 28, 2022
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Ethan Mollick@emollick
Everything written on the web is rotting away behind us at a staggering rate.
This paper finds 53% of all New York Times articles from 1996 and mid-2019 had at least one link that no longer works. Another 13% of links point to content that is altered. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
2:59 AM · Jun 28, 2022
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Kris Gulati in London/Oxford (until 9th) then DC@krisgulati
What an incredible paper. An additional airport within a UK region caused exports to grow 80% faster over 8 years. Cool instrument -- current airport locations are largely built upon military airfields, which were hastily built during WW2, for specific military needs.
7:45 PM · Jul 3, 2022
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David Schönholzer@davidfromterra
Between 1997-2008, voters in Los Angeles approved a series of bonds dedicating around $20 billion in funding to the construction, expansion, and renovation of hundreds of schools. What was the impact of this massive investment in public goods? Julien Lafortune and I investigated.
4:42 PM · Jun 28, 2022
731 Reposts · 2.81K Likes
^phone for Henry George
Johanna Rickne@johannarickne
Our paper about Radical Right politicians is now forthcoming in @RevEconStudies (with Ernesto Dal Bó, @fsfinan, @OlleFolke, and Torsten Persson) 🎉🎉. 🎉🎉Who are these politicians?
Thread below and paper here: restud.com/paper/economic…
7:44 AM · Jul 1, 2022
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More: monetary policy and debt sustainability; resume audit for founders
Interesting discussions
Sebastian Buhai@sbuhai
But most your peer-reviewers, particularly (in)famous Ref 2, will not—and arguably should never—be your marginal readers, whilst most editors will—and arguably should—always be stingy on space.
Otherwise worded, pre- and post-publication author incentives don't fully coincide 1/2
Ben Golub 🇺🇦 @ben_golub
This leads to a broader point. Many authors seem to be writing for a reader who is like themselves: interested in a deep understanding of the problem. Perhaps a researcher interested in building on the results in the paper.
But this is not our marginal reader!
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1:39 PM · Jun 23, 2022
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Kurt Gray@kurtjgray
This week I officially became a full professor and just hit my 100th paper.🥳 My one piece of advice for success with papers: more theory of mind.
Let me explain. 🧵
2:09 PM · Jul 1, 2022
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Peter Isztin 🌐🏛@PeterIsztin
The theory of the Core is so much underemphasized in economics education. It not only connects game theory to price theory, but also helps us to do away with the competition-cooperation dichotomy: it is competition for the right to cooperate!
12:11 PM · Jul 1, 2022
3 Reposts · 42 Likes
Sebastian Tello-Trillo@dsebastiantello
Look at this innovation during a presentation.
4:18 PM · Jun 28, 2022
13 Reposts · 350 Likes
Ben Golub 🇺🇦@ben_golub
Today economics is launching Eternity, a new initiative to help other academic disciplines learn from our best practices and expertise in efficient, fast, low-overhead refereeing and publishing processes.
TransportationGov @USDOT
Today, we're launching Momentum, a new initiative to help countries around the world learn from our best practices and expertise in planning and modernizing transportation infrastructure. https://t.co/nDH1EJA2Jx https://t.co/A585ZA0Qr0
3:09 PM · Jul 1, 2022
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