Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 15, 2022 [3/3]
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 three of three.
Paper summary threads
Saksham Khosla@khoslasaksham
4-5 (!) years after a randomized set of depressed adults received a psychotherapy course in India (costing $66 per recipient):
- they were 11pp less likely to be depressed
- experienced 9 fewer months of depression
- experienced changes in feeling bad, overconfidence, altruism
12:30 PM · May 9, 2022
35 Reposts · 186 Likes
Joel Waldfogel@JWaldfogel
GDPR aims to improve privacy in various ways, some of which are costly to app developers. As a result, GDPR induced a large number of apps to exit rather than face the costs of coming into compliance.
12:34 PM · May 9, 2022
4 Reposts · 20 Likes
Alexander Berger@albrgr
Kinda crazy paper finding that even the Cultural Revolution didn't come close to eliminating the lasting impact of historical socioeconomic status in China: davidyyang.com/pdfs/revolutio…
5:46 PM · May 14, 2022
79 Reposts · 360 Likes
Elliot Lipnowski@ElliotLip
Today's edition of "classics in game theory" (Ben-Porath and Dekel, 1992) gives a cool example demonstrating the power of signaling in strategic interactions.
1:02 PM · May 11, 2022
25 Reposts · 139 Likes
Matthias Doepke@mdoepke
Recently finished a new survey on "Educational Inequality" with my amazing coauthors Jo Blanden and Jan Stuhler.
I learned a lot!
Here: A thread on what it all means for the future of economic inequality and social mobility.
1/20
2:33 PM · May 13, 2022
125 Reposts · 443 Likes
Seth Zimmerman@SethDZimmerman
New paper alert: Centralized School Choice with Unequal Outside Options with @akbarpour_ @ChrisANeilson @adamkapor and @WinnieVanDijk
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
9:50 PM · May 9, 2022
16 Reposts · 95 Likes
Leonard Seabrooke@LenSeabrooke
What did we find? On citations we find that the Chicago profs stuck together while the Harvard & MIT profs fragmented. From the mid-1970s Charles River students were more likely to cite Chicago profs than their own. These trends occur before neoliberal economics takes off [6/9]
8:23 AM · May 9, 2022
3 Reposts · 24 Likes
More: peers and personality; education RCT; cyberattack; maternity leave; fentanyl data; market integration and spread of renewable energy; price discrimination in negotiation; monetary policy transmission through equity financing
Interesting discussions
Jeffrey Wooldridge@jmwooldridge
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when the final slide of a presentation says, “Thank You!”
We can’t just say it anymore?
3:38 AM · May 13, 2022
25 Reposts · 430 Likes
Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi
Consider better replacements such as:
1. A summary of results.
2. A key graph or equation.
3. A recipe for banana bread
3:49 AM · May 13, 2022
1 Repost · 40 Likes
Anna SdTC@annasdtc
@SpillerSAS @jmwooldridge @kjhealy I used to have a "thank you" slide but then one of my professors told me that if you leave your "insights/summary" slide during the Q&A, the public is looking at it for some minutes (helping them remember). Now I add "thank you" at the bottom corner of the final (insights) slide.
10:54 AM · May 13, 2022
36 Likes
Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi
The list of Basic Presentation Habits That Make Me Judge You.
Thanks @jmwooldridge and @KhoaVuUmn for getting the ball rolling!
🧵 1/219
11:23 PM · May 13, 2022
52 Reposts · 547 Likes
Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi
3. Notation that of the form A_a^{\mathcal{A}}, with each script referring to a different mathematical object.
11:28 PM · May 13, 2022
33 Likes
Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi
6. In the interest of time I’m skipping the next 200 slides.
11:37 PM · May 13, 2022
120 Likes
Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi
208. Now that only 5 minutes remain, let me state the extension to N players, T periods, and the universal type space.
11:39 PM · May 13, 2022
1 Repost · 60 Likes
Thomas Kang@kangthomas
Is this real Twitter?
2:50 AM · May 14, 2022
12 Reposts · 418 Likes
Heidi Tworek@HeidiTworek
Every year, my students in my IR history course impress me so much with their Wikipedia pages. They have to write on something that does not already have an entry.
Here are this year's creations which have already been viewed over 250k. times (1/ 8)
8:36 AM · May 12, 2022
737 Reposts · 7.37K Likes
Masonic the Hedgehog@MissPavIichenko
Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who deciphered the Maya script, listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and got pissed whenever editors cropped her out https://t.co/xZqflZPw4b
Sami Schalk @DrSamiSchalk
In one of my student’s final project acknowledgements they thank their cat.
4:48 AM · May 11, 2022
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