Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 24, 2022 [1/4]
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This is part one of four.
Paper summaries
Maxwell Tabarrok 🏗️🚀@MTabarrok
Fellow denizens of #EconTwitter may have seen this tweet going around a few days ago claiming the end of Arrow's Theorem, Here a tweet thread explaining why it's basically not true. Also in blog form!
maximumprogress.substack.com/p/arrows-impos…
Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin
Breaking news [for my fellow political economists]. The Arrow Impossibility theorem is no more. https://t.co/n99mZYyIxp
7:51 PM · Jul 22, 2022
7 Reposts · 14 Likes
^TLDR: Borda count avoids vote-splitting (i.e., under a fixed slate) but still has the cloning problem. Extremely good substack
Matthew G Nagler@MatthewGNagler
🚨🚨 New working paper alert!🚨🚨 “Advertising and Self-Persuasion.” Short thread 👇 with an overview. 1/n Link to paper here: mnagler.ccny.cuny.edu/research/adjus…
9:44 AM · Jul 22, 2022
6 Reposts · 26 Likes
Jon Mellon@jon_mellon
Update to my weather IV paper. IV assumes effect of instrument on Y works only through instrumented variable X. But scientists have linked weather to 192 variables, which makes exclusion restriction assumption implausible. This plot is just for rainfall:
osf.io/preprints/soca…
10:52 AM · Jul 19, 2022
206 Reposts · 918 Likes
Colin Fraser@colin_fraser
Someone on here (I forget who I'm sorry) linked to this paper and it derives this statistical identity that is completely mind blowing and I want to tweet about it.
bias = data quality × data quantity × problem difficulty
statistics.fas.harvard.edu/files/statisti…
3:46 AM · Jul 20, 2022
235 Reposts · 1.13K Likes
Justin Sandefur@JustinSandefur
Is Duflo (2001) robust?
@davidroodman kicks the tires on perhaps the most influential study on the value of education for development.
arxiv.org/abs/2207.09036
11:18 AM · Jul 20, 2022
32 Reposts · 161 Likes
Matt Lowe@hmmlowe
Why are there so many small-scale vendors in developing country cities?
Some new evidence with Banerjee, @GregFisch, @deankarlan, @BenRothEcon: mattlowe.site/wp-content/upl… 1/
mattlowe.site
3:38 PM · Jul 24, 2022
56 Reposts · 256 Likes
Public goods
Barton Willage@bartonwillage
I posted a slide I share w/ students of orgs that hire econ undergrads. Some asked for the slide, some suggested places. I am more seriously gathering this (bartonwillage.com/pages/Jobs.html).
Send suggestions.
If someone else has already done this, pls let me know.
bartonwillage.com
Jobs
2:41 PM · Jul 18, 2022
11 Reposts · 49 Likes
Jeremy Lebow@jeremy_lebow
1/3 Last year @DukeEcon PhD students launched the Graduate Mentorship Program – an opportunity for people from under-represented backgrounds in Economics to get advice on the PhD application process from current PhD students. This year it’s back! The deadline to apply is Aug 25
Sarah Raviola @sarahraviola
1/ Some exciting news: the Duke Econ Grad Student Diversity and Inclusion committee is launching a new initiative: the Graduate Mentorship Program (GMP), targeted to students from backgrounds under-represented in economics and considering a PhD in econ:
https://t.co/WQGCb6LTcj
7:45 PM · Jul 21, 2022
73 Reposts · 150 Likes
^believe there’s a Harvard-MIT program like this too, but lost the link
MacroFinance & MacroHistory Lab@MacroFinanceLab
We are very happy to announce that the JST Macrohistory Database is now updated with annual data until 2020! It contains long-run macroeconomic and financial series for 18 advanced economies starting in 1870! A 🧵 on the major updates:
macrohistory.net/database/
#EconTwitter
3:47 PM · Jul 20, 2022
67 Reposts · 218 Likes
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang@KwekuOA
@emmarackstraw Hey Emma, Good job. Well, here's a short implementation for one event study per each DiD approach:
R version (see page 8):
kylebutts.com/files/did2s_ar…
Stata version: github.com/kylebutts/did2…
Hope it helps, for future work, all best.
github.com
GitHub - kylebutts/did2s_stata: Two-Stage Difference-in-Differences following Gardner (2021)
8:53 PM · Jul 20, 2022
7 Reposts · 72 Likes
Cédric Chambru@CedricChambru
Very happy to share the new update of the Historical Social Conflict Database, which now includes more than 20,000 events between 1100 and 1900:
unicaen.fr/hiscod
@pmaneuvre @MrshCaen
10:18 AM · Jul 20, 2022
113 Reposts · 401 Likes
Interesting discussions
Tobias Klein@kleintob
#EconTwitter:
I wish I had seen this one-pager 📄 on how to write excellent papers while I was doing my Ph.D.: scholar.harvard.edu/files/shapiro/…
Jesse Shapiro suggests doing this in 4 steps.
Here is a summary. 🧵
scholar.harvard.edu
9:44 AM · Jul 22, 2022
239 Reposts · 1.42K Likes
Branko Milanovic@BrankoMilan
Two centuries of global income inequality
9:58 PM · Jul 20, 2022
159 Reposts · 551 Likes
Gabriel Kreindler 🇺🇦🇷🇴@thetahat
This looks like the end of using Slack for my research projects. What alternatives do #EconTwitter folks recommend? Bonus points for migrating Slack data to the new platform. The main + thing abt Slack over email was archiving all communication in one place per project.
1:53 PM · Jul 23, 2022
7 Reposts · 33 Likes
ω-continuous Imogen@ImogenBits
its ridiculous that a program as garbage as latex has become the de facto standard for writing scientific stuff
its as if a language as unusable and unsafe as C became a standard programming language
or a mode of transport as annoying, dangerous, expensive and dirty as cars bec
7:48 PM · Jul 21, 2022
257 Reposts · 2.76K Likes