Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 5, 2022 [2/3]
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.
This is part two of three.
Paper summaries
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
🚨New paper!🚨
with @VrindaMittal2 and @SVNieuwerburgh: we know remote work has been a big deal over the last couple of years.
But what does this mean for the future of commercial offices?
draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-works…
thread 👇
8:39 PM · Jun 1, 2022
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Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
We look at lease-level data from CompStak, and see evidence for declines in leasing revenue.
Office leases are staggered, so only part of the effects have shown up.
Also evidence of flight to quality — younger, amenity-rich buildings holding up demand better.
8:39 PM · Jun 1, 2022
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^comes with extremely readable blog summary, as all good papers should
Steve Tadelis 🏳️🌈@steve_tadelis
This is why I’m on Twitter (quit FB 2+ yrs ago). @arpitrage posts new cool paper; @JuraWho adds interesting complementary facts. Informative discussion. I hope folks post less on their recent Paris or London trips and save those for FB or Instagram…
Jura Liaukonyte @JuraWho
I was curious to what extent these numbers are also correlated with NYC public transportation ridership, so I plotted the MTA data. Definitely seems like a new equilibrium. https://t.co/A165kYxCvu https://t.co/jfXCbSUmHO
3:22 PM · Jun 3, 2022
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Tymon Słoczyński@TymonSloczynski
I am very happy to see my paper, "Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights," published open access in the May issue of @restatjournal. TLDR: the OLS weights on heterogeneous treatment effects are *weird* even if... 1/5
The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal
When treatment effects are heterogeneous, OLS estimation overweights the effects on smaller groups. In the May 2022 issue, by Tymon Sloczynski (@TymonSloczynski). https://t.co/kjTxWEvsrc
1:42 PM · Jun 3, 2022
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Alex Albright@AllbriteAllday
"Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences" by S. Anwar + @PatBayerNC + @ProfHjalmarsson
Residents of predominantly White + high-inc neighborhoods are overrep'd on juries
They estimate equal representation would reduce Black defendants' median sentence length by 50%
5:15 PM · Jun 1, 2022
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^ “But, (due to data limits) it is unknown if "this variation already exists in the master list used to call jurors or results from disparate neighborhood response rates"”
Jonathan T. Rothwell@jtrothwell
Important new research out today in AER Insights:
Expanding the size of the police force saves lives & Black lives disproportionately by reducing homicide. It also reduces the # of and arrests for serious crimes, but increases arrests for petty crimes.
aeaweb.org
Police Force Size and Civilian Race
4:40 PM · Jun 1, 2022
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Timothy Layton@timothyjlayton
Out today in AER: Insights, my paper "The Liquidity Sensitivity of Healthcare Consumption" with @talgross and @prinzdani
We show that Medicare prescription fills spike on social security paydays for those facing very small copays ($2-4) but not for those facing no copays.
AEA Journals @AEAjournals
The June 2022 issue of AER: Insights (4, 2) is now available online at https://t.co/RgRUUHz2LY.
1:06 PM · Jun 1, 2022
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Emma van Inwegen@emmavaninwegen
🚨🚨🚨 New NBER WP just dropped with @ekaterinajardim, @mlmarklong, Bob Plotnick, @JakeVigdor, and @hilweth. It's on spillover effects of place-based policies and what employer-employee matched data can teach us about them!
nber.org/papers/w30075
1/n
11:28 AM · May 31, 2022
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^another thread from another coauthor
David D. Liebowitz@DavidDLiebowitz
🚨🚨New @AnnenbergInst paper w/ @DrDarrylVHill, Rodney Hughes, @kontinent & @linzcpage:
New Schools and New Classmates: The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Top-level headline: higher-achieving students⬆️peers’ test scores
edworkingpapers.com/ai21-412
edworkingpapers.com
New Schools and New Classmates: The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
7:31 PM · May 24, 2021
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Public goods
Boris Knyazev@BorisAKnyazev
Dear paper writers, consider using \𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦[𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗿𝗲𝗳=𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲]{𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘧} instead of simply \𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦{𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘧} to make it easier for a reader to jump to the references and back.
2:04 PM · May 30, 2022
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Interesting discussions
Beatrice Cherrier@Undercoverhist
1/ I only marginally work on these histories, but I’m teaching them & being asked often about, so
Here’s long thread on some controversies over how economists modeled nature after World War II & contexts
(exhaustive history of environmental econ thread is beyond my ability)
9:32 AM · Jun 1, 2022
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Florian Ederer@florianederer
I'm sometimes sad that not enough of my MBA students have seen The Wire and that campus climate has changed so much that in order to demonstrate fundamental concepts of Competitive Strategy it is no longer optimal to show clips of this masterpiece in class.
A short thread:
🧵👇
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall
#TheWire debuted 20 years ago tonight. I wrote about all the ways the HBO masterpiece has proven impossible to duplicate, no matter how often other shows try to imitate parts of it: https://t.co/PAyS4UypbJ https://t.co/vEiFay9GAi
12:24 PM · Jun 3, 2022
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Arvind Narayanan@random_walker
Academics would double our productivity if we learnt some basic project management skills that are bog standard in the industry. We have this myth that scholarly success is all about brilliance and creativity, but in fact 90% of it is getting sh*t done, same as any other job.
10:42 AM · Jun 2, 2022
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Arvind Narayanan@random_walker
Like most scholars, I used to start too many projects and inevitably let half of them wither and die slowly due to inattention. But a few years ago I began making go/no-go decisions after the preliminary stage of a project. Never mind productivity, it has let me regain my sanity!
10:52 AM · Jun 2, 2022
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Ben Golub 🇺🇦@ben_golub
What's are the best rigorous but not overwhleming introductions to the math of a typical first year graduate micro course? Less encyclopedic than Ok, but rigorous on the foundations needed for optimization and equilibrium?
7:30 AM · Jun 3, 2022
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Benjamin Schmidt@benmschmidt
In 1980 the median age of history authors published by Yale University press was 40: by 2013 it was nearly 60. It's striking how *different* the age profiles are across different presses.
10:22 PM · Jun 1, 2022
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