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
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):
^another thread from coauthor, and on the underlying young adult migration dataset
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
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
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
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
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
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]
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
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
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!
** 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 🧵
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
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)
More: MIT and Harvard Application Assistance and Mentoring Program
Interesting discussions
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
