Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 15, 2022 [1/3]

May 16, 2022

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 one of three.

Paper summary threads

Johanna Rickne@johannarickne

Our paper on workplace sexual harassment is now out in the QJE! (with @OlleFolke). A thread on what we do and find, using nationally representative survey data, administrative data, and a survey experiment. Read the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

2:57 PM · May 12, 2022

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Johanna Rickne@johannarickne

Women face three times as much sexual harassment from colleagues and managers as men do. This exposure increases with the share of men in the workplace. Men’s harassment has the opposite pattern and exceeds women’s in strongly female-dominated workplaces. (Left figure)

2:57 PM · May 12, 2022

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^it is too bad that Substack cuts off the images in tweets, you can click through to see (Swedish data, data points are estimates from an AKM model)

Kristina Manysheva 🇺🇦@manysheva_k

📢New @cepr_org paper with @enrico_berkes and Martí Mestieri on Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity using historical patent data covering a large set of countries over the past century:📢 1/n

CEPR @cepr_org

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17285 Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from 100 Years of World Patent Data Enrico Berkes @OhioState, Kristina Manysheva @manysheva_k @NUEconomics, Martí Mestieri @NUEconomics @ChicagoFed https://t.co/dgLQvS39Ut #CEPR_MG https://t.co/J9StjshH0G

9:02 PM · May 9, 2022

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Kristina Manysheva 🇺🇦@manysheva_k

We then document substantial technological waves and variation in countries' specialization. 3/n

9:02 PM · May 9, 2022

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Florian Ederer@florianederer

The 20th Annual @IIOC_IO conference was a blast! There were so many interesting papers across the whole range of industrial organization topics. editorialexpress.com/conference/IIO… Here are a few of my favorites (with an obvious innovation bias): 🧵

editorialexpress.com

20th annual International Industrial Organization Conference

5:28 PM · May 15, 2022

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Arnaud Dyevre@ArnaudDyevre

A paper I am really proud of is coming in print! It is joint work with the great @crescenzi_r (LSE) and @FrankNeffke (Harvard Growth Lab). It asks: What is the impact of foreign investments by firms on innovation in cities? What is the role of firm heterogeneity in this? Short🧵

1:52 PM · May 9, 2022

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Matt Webb@mattdwebb

Hey #EconTwitter, do you use clustered standard errors? Do you worry about reliable inference? Our new guide explains when you should worry, when you shouldn't, and how to make better inferences. A joint 🧵 with @jgmQED and @MortenEcon. 1/

12:59 PM · May 12, 2022

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Clément de Chaisemartin@CdeChaisemartin

New version of our survey on TWFE and DID, with an application: we revisit @JustinWolfers's AER paper on unilateral divorce laws, using several new DID estimators. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Dofile may be useful for those trying to implement those estimators:

drive.google.com

code_Ectj.do

10:10 AM · May 10, 2022

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Jason Kerwin@jt_kerwin

🚨🚨New publication alert!!🚨🚨 Our paper “Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention” is now out at the Journal of Econometrics @JEconometrics! 🎉🎉🎉 Access it FREE via this link for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1f32A15DjiBH… 1/N

7:27 PM · May 12, 2022

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Will Matcham@willmatchamecon

Arxiv released my working paper with Tatiana Komarova today: arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05779… This is my first foray into econometrics, though I find the economic motivation exciting. On the economics, we study the identification and estimation of decision bracketing. A thread: