Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 21, 2020
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter. Recommendations always welcome over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
New papers
Lots of new paper threads this week :)
Belinda Archibong@belindaarch
I want to share a new(ish) paper with @nonso2 on prison labor and police that was accepted for presentation at the @nberpubs DAE SI and took over 2 years of archival data collection:researchgate.net/publication/34… But before the results, some background on why we wrote this paper: 1/n
8:04 PM · Jun 23, 2020
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Caitlin Gorback@CGorback
New @nberpubs working paper with @Key_Z_E on how home buyer taxes abroad increased demand for U.S. housing. Using this foreign demand shock for local housing, we provide new housing supply elasticities for the largest 100 US CBSA’s. 1/7
papers.nber.org/tmp/42929-w273…
7:55 PM · Jun 22, 2020
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Dan Greenwald@ProfGreenwald
Thanks to everyone who attended this Virtual Finance Workshop! Link is below for anyone who still wants to watch. For everyone else, here's the TL;DR version.
Punchline: shifts in the division of output from labor to profits is main driver of stock market rise since 1989.
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Hanno Lustig @HannoLustig
Great talk by Sydney Ludvigson today. Decline in US labor share accounts for 40% US of stock market outperformance over past 3 decades. Touches on lots of interesting questions in macro and finance. https://t.co/9UhqVImu8T work with @ProfGreenwald
4:26 PM · Jun 22, 2020
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Alex Imas@alexoimas
Inspired by recent critiques on the empirical validity of prospect theory, I'm excited to share new paper explicitly testing dynamic predictions of PT.
Punchline: Using field data + pre-registered experiments, find very strong support for PT. (Thread)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
2:07 PM · Jun 19, 2020
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Lucie Gadenne@LucieGadenne
Can consumption taxes reduce inequality? Great @WorldBank summary of our work with Pierre Bachas and Anders Jensen looking at this using micro data from 31 developing countries. Spoiler: Yes they can! (1/n)
blogs.worldbank.org
Can taxes on consumption help reduce inequality?
2:47 PM · Jun 22, 2020
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Ben Golub@ben_golub
from @ChadJonesEcon's growth class, I know he is obsessed with a huge question: where do the fat tails in fat-tailed productivity models come from?
In this paper, the answer is: from taking a lot (combinatorially many) draws from thin-tailed outcomes of random recipes
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4:20 AM · Jun 26, 2020
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Fabio Ghironi@FabioGhironi
For those who are still interested in non-COVID-related economics, new draft of "Trade, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy," with Matteo Cacciatore: faculty.washington.edu/ghiro/Cacciato… 1/n
12:18 AM · Jun 26, 2020
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Newly-published papers
Benjamin Hansen@benconomics
@millersdrafts, Caroline Weber, and my paper on cross border spillovers with Marijuana is officially fully published @JPubEcon. You can find the full paper here sciencedirect.com/science/articl….
In this paper we find when marijuana was legalized in OR, sales fell in WA.
7:10 PM · Jun 24, 2020
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Lucas Goodman 🏳️🌈@goodmanl
My newest paper has been published online by @JPubEcon!
As always, all opinions are my own and not necessarily those of the Treasury Department. authors.elsevier.com/a/1bILVAlw9itiq 1/13
7:12 PM · Jun 25, 2020
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Maik Wolters@MH_Wolters
(1/6) My paper on "Reliable Real-time Output Gap Estimates Based on a Modified Hamilton Filter" with Josefine Quast @UniWueWiwi has been accepted by the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. Resulting output gap estimates are hardly revised and are economically meaningful.
1:42 PM · Jun 28, 2020
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Diego Restuccia@DiegoRestuccia
So glad to see in print @AEAjournals Macro my work with Tasso Adamopoulos on land reforms and agricultural productivity. Below my main takeaways. 1/7
aeaweb.org
Land Reform and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data
9:51 PM · Jun 27, 2020
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Public goods
Mohammad Akbarpour@akbarpour_
(1/N) Collecting learning-by-doing wisdom: What ideas/tools you used that you think were helpful in improving online teaching experience? Let's mainly focus on PhD courses for now, though many lessons apply to undergrad/MBA. I start by two of my own:
1:39 AM · Jun 25, 2020
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Mohammad Akbarpour@akbarpour_
(2/N) 1-Break-out sessions & active learning: 1 or 2 times per class, find a question that verifies students' learning, or is the next thing you wanna teach. Divide students into break-out rooms of ~5 each & let them discuss/discover. When come back after ~10min, 1 person from...
1:39 AM · Jun 25, 2020
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Mohammad Akbarpour@akbarpour_
(4/N) 2-Guest speakers: Invite guests for 20-60min talks to talk about their papers (or their specific area) with two goals: a) learning from the source is fun and valuable, b) covering cutting-edge research, c) refreshing for students, d) guests typically like it.
What else?
1:39 AM · Jun 25, 2020
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Academic navel-gazing
Ben Golub@ben_golub
Left: first submission
Top right: resubmission
Bottom right: accepted for publication
3:20 AM · Jun 24, 2020
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