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Mar 20, 2023
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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.

Paper summaries

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⑆Luke Stein⑈ @lukestein
Excited to share a new WP with Ran Abramitzky, @JacobCConway, and Roy Mill about differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using census data from 1870–1940 [Short slideshow👇 and short thread below that] @nberpubs WP nber.org/papers/w31016
1:25 AM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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^the award for ‘innovation in paper summary tweets’ goes to

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Alexi Savov @AlexiSavov
SVB got in trouble for investing in MBS. It’s certainly not alone in doing so. Why do banks invest in assets like MBS in the first place? 1/
9:48 PM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
365Likes103Retweets

^related

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JB Rubinovitz @rubinovitz
The "Will GPT automate all the jobs?" paper is out With participation from @OpenAI, OpenResearch and @Penn 🧵 1/9
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3:05 AM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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^and:

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Juan Mateos Garcia @JMateosGarcia
They use human labelling and GPT4 to measure task exposure to Large Language Models and aggregate those over occupations. When doing this, they distinguish between exposure to vanilla LLMs and exposure to *tool augmented** LLMs (v. cool).
10:48 AM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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Juan Mateos Garcia @JMateosGarcia
They find that 19% of US jobs are highly exposed (>50% tasks exposed) to tool-augmented LLMs. Higher education jobs are more likely to be exposed; jobs that require scientific and critical skills less exposed; computer programmers very exposed.
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10:48 AM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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Dr. Isabel Z. Martínez @IZMartinez86
Excited to share this new paper with the world! Together with @SamiraMarti and @Florian_Scheuer @econ_uzh, we study whether a wealth tax reduces wealth inequality. A thread 🧵 1/11
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EU Tax Observatory @taxobservatory
📰 WORKING PAPER | Does A Progressive Wealth Tax Reduce Top Wealth Inequality? Evidence From Switzerland Read our newest working paper on a progressive wealth tax by @SamiraMarti, @IZMartinez86 & @Florian_Scheuer ➡️ https://t.co/NBJGHreKQu https://t.co/i6U2xVBCBG
11:31 AM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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Josh Dean @josh_t_dean
I was reading Heckman, Urzua and Vytlacil (2006) because in our cookstoves paper/ongoing followup @BerkouwerS and I have a continuous instrument and a binary treatment. I needed to draw some graphs to build some intuition for this result, and figured I'd share them. 🧵
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5:15 PM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
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Steven Hamilton @SHamiltonian
Delighted to release a working paper with @_geoffliu and @Tris_Sainsbury on Australia's A$38b pandemic stimulus program in which people were allowed to withdraw up to $20k from their retirement accounts, normally inaccessible until retirement. Thread. 1/ static1.squarespace.com/static/59b0bb0…
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6:31 PM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
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Francesco (Ciccio) Amodio @fscoamodio
Updated draft of "Labor Market Power, Self-Employment and Development" - with @pame_medinaq @mmorl89 Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1l70Jh7… CEPR DP: cepr.org/publications/d… A small 🧵 with a recap and summary of new results. 1/n
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4:02 PM ∙ Mar 16, 2023
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Jeanet Sinding Bentzen @JeanetBentzen
Just out in @j_econ_growth Religion has been used to justify rules, such as "abortion is illegal" or "women should not work". We document that this old fact has occurred for all types of societies and religions, throughout time. And it hurts democracy. doi.org/10.1007/s10887…
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12:46 AM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage
Nice writeup of a study by @I_Am_NickBloom and Alex Finan: "work" from home flattened the curve of golf demand over the week nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/… nytimes.com/2023/03/16/bus…
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2:33 PM ∙ Mar 16, 2023
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica
Finally ready to share a lit review 🧵on recent (econ) papers around effects of interventions targeting parenting in LMICs. . .this is an area w/a lot of exciting new contributions + interdisciplinary work (note focusing on interventions targeting parents - not childcare)
4:25 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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Sarah Bana @SarahHBana
Excited to share this research! @mrfrank5790 and I usually study skills from the demand side. In this paper, led by exceptional Pitt grad student @hungkchau, we look at university syllabi and the skills they teach.
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Morgan Frank @mrfrank5790
New @PLOSONE paper w/ @SarahHBana @hungkchau and Baptiste Bouvier! Workers' skills determine earnings, migration, and careers, but where do those skills come from? Using millions of college syllabi from @opensyllabus we create skill profiles for majors and universities https://t.co/zID7d7ztmf
11:47 PM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
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Prof Dr Richard S.J. Tol MAE @RichardTol
My third paper on the academic genealogy of Nobel Laureates
ideas.repec.orgThe Nobel FamilyNobel laureates cluster together. 696 of the 727 winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics belong to one single academic family tree. 668 trace their ancestry to Emmanu
2:18 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 @m_sendhil
🧵1/ New paper: We argue machine learning should be used to generate truly novel hypotheses. The application: judge decision-making. We find a single factor is heavily related to who gets jailed: the defendant’s mugshot. What are judges looking at? Our method unpacks this...
12:37 AM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
444Likes127Retweets

^more

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John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1
Running a study where you use names to signal race? Be careful! Names signal more than just race alone. But (!), fret not; we have pre-tested 600+ names for perceptions of race/class/citizenship. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… Data: github.com/jaeyk/validate…
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4:12 PM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
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Matthew A. Kraft @MatthewAKraft
🚨We're excited to share a revised version of our retitled WP: "Taking Teacher Evaluation Reforms to Scale"🚨 We dedicate considerable attention to exploring WHY we find null effects, on average, of state teacher eval reforms (plus robustness galore). nber.org/papers/w30995 🧵
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3:23 PM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
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Laura Boudreau @LauraBoudreau
Teaser alert: Silence does != no problems. We find that providing plausible deniability about reporting through exogenous garbling increases reporting of workplace harassment by 46-288%, with a larger increase for more sensitive types of harassment.
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NBER @nberpubs
Harassment in organizations: Is it a good sign when no one complains? Plausible deniability liberates victims' voice in surveys, from @LauraBoudreau @SylvainChassang @adagt3 and @rachelmheath https://t.co/CGAEIlX4Fl https://t.co/AZmi8nUBfo
7:40 PM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
88Likes22Retweets
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Mike Levere @leverefamily
🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨 We study school closures during the pandemic to show that schools are a critical channel through which children with disabilities learn about SSI. Counties with more virtual schooling in 9/2020 had fewer SSI applications in subsequent months. 1/4
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6:22 PM ∙ Mar 16, 2023
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The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh
New Cato working paper on how minimum wages reduced the number of au pairs in Massachusetts. What are au pairs? How did the min wage undermine au pairs in MA? Why is the Biden administration thinking of doing something similar nationwide? 🧵 cato.org/working-paper/…
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9:55 PM ∙ Mar 17, 2023
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Paul Hünermund @PHuenermund
Since @Andrew___Baker called for a break day, let's go back to our favorite Twitter activity of 2020... discussing DAGs! I'm very happy that our paper "Causal Inference and Data Fusion in Econometrics" is finally forthcoming in the Econometrics Journal. academic.oup.com/ectj/advance-a… 1/
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3:11 PM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
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Spencer Barnes @SpencerBarnes99
This is my last one for a while, but I hope to see some of you tomorrow! Are you curious to know how the gender gap in EEOC litigation payouts measures discrimination severity in the workplace and its impact on firm performance? New work by myself, @YikAu from @umanitoba, and
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4:02 AM ∙ Mar 9, 2023
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Dominik Gutt @DominikGutt
🚨New project alert🚨 As @AnthonyLeeZhang has pointed out, LLMs like GPT-4 or Bing AI are a serious threat to traditional Q&A platforms like StackExchange. @QuinnMrtn and I are currently estimating to what extent LLMs are affecting Q&A platforms.
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Anthony Lee Zhang @AnthonyLeeZhang
lol RIP stackexchange https://t.co/cx2B5zxGl0
2:14 PM ∙ Mar 17, 2023
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Michael R. Strain @MichaelRStrain
THREAD. My latest academic paper, with @jeffreypclemens, tries to answer this question: Do higher minimum wages decrease union membership in minimum-wage-intensive industries? We find no evidence of a change in union membership among high-skilled workers in these industries.
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5:01 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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Sebastian Schmidt @econschmidt
New working paper: Monetary-fiscal policy interactions when price stability occasionally takes a back seat cepr.org/publications/d… # via @cepr_org 1/4
cepr.orgDP18002 Monetary-fiscal policy interactions when price stability occasionally takes a back seatCan a central bank occasionally subordinate its price stability objective to the goal of fiscal sustainability without jeopardizing price stability more generally? This paper suggests that the answer is no. I build a model with a fiscal authority that is limited in its willingness or ability to rais…
4:56 PM ∙ Mar 17, 2023
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José-Elías Gallegos @JoseEGaIIegos
1/6 I’m excited to share my updated paper “HANK beyond FIRE” (joseeliasgallegos.com/uploads/7/5/1/…), where I relax the Full-Information Rational-Expectations (FIRE) assumption in a Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model #econtwitter
3:07 PM ∙ Mar 17, 2023
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