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)

^more graphs

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…

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

^“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…

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#…

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

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)

^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

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.comEcon_PhD_Guide.pdf

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

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.comaws-samples/aws-fargate-with-rstudio-open-sourceThis project delivers AWS CDK Python code to provision serverless infrastructure in AWS Cloud to run Open Source RStudio Server and Shiny. - aws-samples/aws-fargate-with-rstudio-open-source

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

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. 🧵

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

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?

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

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. 1/6

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.orgTake control over your data with Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform | The Mozilla BlogMozilla teams up with Princeton University researchers to enable crowdsourced science for public good; collaborates with research groups at Princeton, Stan

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.