Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 27, 2021
Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Thanks to those sharing suggestions, over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
Paper summary threads
Leopold Aschenbrenner@leopoldasch
Came back to this today, really like @eminakamura2 @JonSteinsson and Bouscasse paper “When Did Growth Begin”
1. Growth 1250-1600 was literally zero! Not slow, not just overtaken by population pressures, but zero.
2. There was a discontinuous shift post 1600!
(1/4)
12:16 AM · Jun 22, 2021
1 Repost · 21 Likes
Kirill Borusyak@borusyak
📢 I’d like to share with #TradeTwitter a 🧵 on what @XJaravel and I have learned about the unequal effects of international trade through both cost-of-living and wages in the U.S.
For those of you who have seen my JMP, this is a much-revised draft
dropbox.com/s/eiygfth61vp4…
2:32 PM · Jun 23, 2021
74 Reposts · 266 Likes
Stefano DellaVigna@sdellavi
3/N Figure 2 shows key result for Econometric Soc. Fellow (longest-running honor in econ). Pre 1980 we estimate very substantial discrimination against females, equivalent to 1.5 extra Econometrica. You can see share female among new fellows much below share for econs w/ pubs
3:01 PM · Jun 25, 2021
5 Likes
^“A large negative gap from 1933-1979 period, evened & then became positive after 2010”
🐙🌐 v 🌐🐙@devarbol
Clark finally published a normal working paper about Hungary, the same mood, usual persistence coefficients of 0.6-0.8, aristocrats are overrepresented, communism didn't do a lot to mobility:
eprints.lse.ac.uk/110873/1/Worki…
10:44 PM · Jun 22, 2021
33 Reposts · 122 Likes
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
The overproduction of elites in... Ghana?
Fascinating RCT with 12 years followup finds that students massively overestimated the returns to completing high school.
nber.org/papers/w28937#…
12:34 PM · Jun 22, 2021
11 Reposts · 55 Likes
Robert Dur@DurRobert
Economists, historians, and scientists in international newspapers, 1800-now
"economists rapidly gained attention in the middle of the 20th century, although this development was not [...] a feature specific to economists"
edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/2… by @lino_wehrheim
7:36 AM · Jun 22, 2021
2 Reposts · 9 Likes
Olga Shurchkov@OlgaShurchkov
Do gender biases matter for which group member is chosen to represent the group? In a new paper, accepted at Games and Economic Behavior (joint with Katie Coffman and Clio Flikkema) I show that the answer is YES.
For details, read on (1/7)
12:57 PM · Jun 22, 2021
34 Reposts · 144 Likes
^see also: experiments on reducing prejudice
Anna Stansbury@annastansbury
*New Working Paper!*
FLSA guarantees the federal minimum wage & overtime; NLRA guarantees the right to organize. But laws on paper are meaningless unless complied with.
Do firms have an incentive to comply with the FLSA and NLRA - based on the current penalty regime?
🧵
(1/N)
Peterson Institute @PIIE
.@Annastansbury argues the federal penalty regimes for Fair Labor Standards Act & National Labor Relations Act violations create very little financial incentive for many companies to comply. https://t.co/8fuMpymHwO
1:56 PM · Jun 24, 2021
54 Reposts · 142 Likes
More: employment for cash vs. cash alone; paternity leave; null result RCT on first gen college advising; SNAP spending patterns; survey of teachers across devo countries; Kumbh Mela and Hindu nationalist voting; Ecuador’s CBDC; employees’ social networks and firm outcomes
Public goods
Prerna Kundu@prerna394
#EconTwitter: @kekreaishwarya, @logwithbasee, @tchakravorty_, Vaibhav and I have written a Guide to Applying for PhD Programs in Econ (based on our personal experiences as international applicants). We hope you find this useful!
drive.google.com/file/d/1cTb8en… (1/n)
drive.google.com
Econ_PhD_Guide.pdf
9:52 AM · Jun 21, 2021
206 Reposts · 705 Likes
Sydnee Caldwell@SydneeCaldwell
Really useful resource for grad students interested in labor market dynamics
Pascal Michaillat @pmichaillat
The lectures are now organized into 130+ short (5'–15') videos.
They cover matching function, matching model, bargained & rigid wages, job rationing, business cycles, Beveridge curve, unemployment gap, minimum wage, payroll tax, public employment, & UI.
https://t.co/9uF4iJqV1i https://t.co/jRkmhPtYEc https://t.co/Ycz1K6Agl4
9:40 PM · Jun 24, 2021
3 Reposts · 17 Likes
Dean Attali@daattali
AWS has released something that looks VERY promising!
A guide to deploying Shiny server on their infrastructure. in a scalable way.
I haven't gone through it but it seems detailed. If anyone has gone through this and it works, let me know!
github.com
aws-samples/aws-fargate-with-rstudio-open-source
10:15 PM · Jun 22, 2021
36 Reposts · 255 Likes
Interesting discussions
Dana Scott@danascoot
So now that I have Officially Survived First Year I want to share a few things that I learned the hard way this year in hopes that someone else will be able to learn them the not-so-hard way. 1/n
9:41 PM · Jun 21, 2021
93 Reposts · 707 Likes
Justin Sandefur@JustinSandefur
Some people like cute titles for econ papers, others hate them. Some prefer detailed, explanatory titles. But we all know the real power move is a 1-word title.
🧵
8:44 PM · Jun 25, 2021
202 Reposts · 1.13K Likes
Alex Albright@AllbriteAllday
Showing my publishing youth here but... *How do you all decide which ec journals to submit your papers to?*
[perceived "fit" by topic/methods, prestige, familiarity with the journal, ease of submission?]
Any resources out there on best practices for this decision? #EconTwitter
6:58 PM · Jun 22, 2021
7 Reposts · 39 Likes
Chris Conlon@conlon_chris
Ok for those of you who have not been paying attention. There are 5 (actually 6) bills working their way through the House -- who knows what will happen in the Senate. Here is the quick summary. My take in brackets [] #EconTwitter
Sharon Traiberman @straiberman
@sharatganapati Can you elaborate for those of us that are lazy/out of this field?
6:16 PM · Jun 25, 2021
37 Reposts · 79 Likes
Matt Notowidigdo@ProfNoto
Very nice resource for looking at differences across colleges & demographic groups in the rate at which students major in economics
At @UChicago, 2.3% of African American women major in economics, while 49.0% of Asian American men major in economics
Dr. Chloe N. East (she/her/hers) @ChloeEast2
Cool @NewYorkFed resource: lets you look at diversity w/in Econ Majors at your institution vs others!
@CUDenver above national average in representation, but unsurprisingly this is still not great. One reason I'm so excited about new DEI committee
https://t.co/tB5Oyrd4oc https://t.co/uF2sN8qm6F
6:57 PM · Jun 23, 2021
8 Reposts · 22 Likes
Nageeb Ali@SNageebAli
Imagine a world in which you love econ + math and yay, you are admitted into grad school in a foreign country!
1st yr = Bootcamp + lots of exams / problems. You pass quals!
2nd yr onwards = Great, now learn to read, write, & present papers in fluid+compelling Mandarin.
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8:28 PM · Jun 24, 2021
48 Reposts · 380 Likes
Shosh Vasserman@shoshievass
So stoked for the launch of Mozilla Rally!
Why? We need a better mode for browser-based research. Where ppl know what data is collected, why, where it's stored and who's responsible. Where ppl can opt in to research designs (not to "anything" study-able)
blog.mozilla.org
Take control over your data with Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform | The Mozilla Blog
7:12 PM · Jun 25, 2021
1 Repost · 12 Likes
Matthias Doepke@mdoepke
@arpitrage I like your idea of a podcast conference. Authors prepare 10 minute segments, episodes/sessions consist of four papers, the whole conference/podcast will cover two weeks of commuting.
11:24 AM · Jun 21, 2021
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