Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 31, 2022 [1/2]

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 one of two.

Paper summaries

Ben Sprung-Keyser @bsprungkeyser

How much does where you grow up determine the labor markets that you’re exposed to in adulthood? Excited to share a new working paper with @nhendren82 and Sonya Porter. Here’s a thread on our work (1/N):

policyimpacts.orgThe Radius of Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor MarketsBen Sprung-Keyser, Nathaniel Hendren, and Sonya Porter

^another thread from coauthor, and on the underlying young adult migration dataset

Nick Bloom @I_Am_NickBloom

New RCT on 1612 employees, finding hybrid #WFH 1) Reduced quit rates by 1/3 2) Shifted hours from WFH days to office days & weekends 3) Increased messaging and video calls (even in the office) 4) Generated a small productivity increase Paper: bit.ly/3J4rL5I

Sarah Miller @smilleralert

These health differences are present even at the moment of birth, before post-birth exposures to cultural or social factors in the US. E.g. the very poorest Swedes are born with birthweight far exceeding the very richest Americans.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Poor Americans die younger than rich Americans, but even if you just look at rich Americans vs rich Europeans there’s a significant death gap. https://t.co/92djCTYsaQ https://t.co/sAJoReMK6S

Alison Andrew @alison_andrew1

Excited to share our new WP about: - mental health effects of restrictive gender norms - impacts of encouraging girls to go against norms - impacts of engaging w/ setters & enforcers of norms w/ Sonya Krutikova @Gabriela_LSC & @HemlataV_ Paper tinyurl.com/ycx7jvtn 🧵below

Olga Shurchkov @OlgaShurchkov

New paper with Kartini a Shastry @WellesleyEcon Check out “Reject or Revise: Gender Differences in Persistence and Publishing in Economics” @SSRN #EconTwitter #GenderGaps papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Highlights ⬇️ 1/6

Torben Heien Nielsen @TorbenHeien

Today, we present “Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms” @ #NBERSI Labor Studies & Personnel Economics (2:25 pm ET) @Sonesta or youtube.com/nbervideos #EconTwitter 1/20

Salvatore Lattanzio @salva_lat

Awesome @nberpubs working paper on "The Geography of Child Penalties and Gender Norms: Evidence from the United States" by Henrik Kleven. Some highlights in thread below.👇 #EconTwitter [1/5]

Evan Soltas @esoltas

New work from me and my coauthor @ipogadog (slides here, paper coming soon): Covid-19 illnesses have reduced the US labor force by 500k-900k, with an economic burden of illness ~1/2 of cancer or diabetes.

Gopi Shah Goda @ipogadog

First, today at 1:15 ET I'll be co-presenting new work with @esoltas on "The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on U.S. Workers." https://t.co/qwzKVqUsoO 2/n

^broken link

Josh Martin @JoshMartin_econ

New working paper on long-term sickness and labour market outcomes with @haskelecon imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haske… Amongst other things we explore the rise of in-work long-term sickness, changes during the pandemic, and implications for the future. A thread 🧵 on the paper 1/13

John Voorheis @john_voorheis

Building on the work done by Chetty et al., and @OppInsights we show that there is a strong negative correlation between exposure to particulate matter at birth and later-life economic opportunity. In fact, we find that it’s one of the top 5 predictors of economic opportunity!

Ricardo Reis @R2Rsquared

** The burst of high inflation in 2021-22: How and Why? I just released a paper based on several talks I’ve given over many months (starting with Markus Academy @MarkusEconomist and ending with @BIS_org) on why monetary policy did not stop inflation rising in 2021-22 🧵

Galo Nuño @NunoGalo

Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models (HANKs) are at the forefront of research in monetary economics. What do we know about optimal monetary policy in these models? How does household/firm/bank heterogeneity affect MP design? A short (personal and technical) 🧵 1/12

Public goods

Matt Clancy @mattsclancy

Is this you, or someone you know? I have good news. This fall @IFP is hosting a free, 6-week, online course, taught by top scholars in the field! (Link at the end of the thread)

^“If you were to ask me how the pandemic has changed academia permanently, this initiative would be a good example.”

More: MIT and Harvard Application Assistance and Mentoring Program

Interesting discussions

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage

This is a great solution all around — set a date, and avoid exploding offers before then. Let candidates walk away from those offers to ensure that. And let the exploding offers fly after Feb 20.

Lisa Kramer @LisaKramer

New recommendations from the American Finance Association on the upcoming rookie job market: no initial interviews before Dec. 15, no campus visits until after the AFA meeting, offers that expire before Feb. 20 are deemed “exploding” and if accepted are not considered binding. https://t.co/vWglPyMjus

Jeremy B. Yoder 🌿📈🧬🏳️‍🌈🖖🏻 @JBYoder

I don't (for the purposes of a public tweet) know who needs to hear this, but: figures that you made for a paper are frequently not good figures for presentation slides

Chad Jones @ChadJonesEcon

The only thing I would add for macroeconomics presentations is **Present your economic environment (technology and preferences, no prices!) at the start of your model, one slide if possible** Not sure why we've lost that social norm. 2/2