Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 13, 2022 [2/3]

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.

This is part two of three.

Paper summaries

Ben Golub, same @ handle elsewhere 🇺🇦 @ben_golub

During the Neolithic Revolution, seven populations independently invented agriculture in a surprisingly narrow band of time. Why did this happen? This is an awesome thread about the mystery and a proposed resolution.

Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻 @andreamatranga

So this is the popular conception of hunter gatherers. Running around in loincloths hunting wooly Mammooths. Fine, though a lot of hunting was actually small game trapping, and actually gathering of plants was a bigger source of calories (though proteins came mostly from hunts). https://t.co/XvApUMdiF0

^long but readable and very worth it

Journal of Public Economics @JPubEcon

This paper uses random assignment to survey mode to establish that depression is underreported in 3 widely used nationally representative surveys when interviews are not anonymous, suggesting social desirability bias is a critical consideration when measuring mental health.

Sara Casella @SaraCasella9

1/8 Thank you so much for tweeting about this session, @elpuntoderocio!!! Here a 🧵 on the findings in our new paper "Parental health, aging, and the labor supply of young workers":

Rocío Madera @elpuntoderocio

Check out Parent's Health, Aging, and the Labor Supply of Young Workers. By: Sara Casella, Luca Mazzone at Midwest Macro. https://t.co/KE5bdmWeLX via @brownbagorg

Anne Byrne @EconAnne

Thrilled to share our work on food pantry value out today in @AJAE_AAEA and covered below in @CornellNews! We find that client households receive average benefits between $40 to $60 per trip to a well-stocked pantry. A 🧵 (1/12)

David Just @DavidJust1

Food pantries provide an important resource. Here is our attempt to determine how valuable they are to the households they serve. https://t.co/MQ7GEoe5kP

Matthias Doepke @mdoepke

Over 200 years, women's rights went from virtually non-existent in many countries to being close to on par with those of men in parts of the world. What role did economic forces play in this great expansion? Our new paper summarizes what we know so far. 1/20

Behaviour Change by Design @BehavChangeDsgn

New study out in @PLOSMedicine: Largest real world study testing whether PACE (Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent) labels would reduce calories bought in 10 cafeterias, finds no overall difference compared to baseline bit.ly/3DRFR8q

Benjamin Blumenthal @bnjmnblmnthl

📣New paper! 🤓 Excited to share "Policymaking under Influence" (osf.io/preprints/soca…)

Michael B Wong @mbwong

** NEW WORKING PAPER ** Does Outsourcing Smooth Labor Demand? Coauthored with the excellent @duoxili, a very sharp applied theorist from Boston U on the job market this year! (Hire him!) #econtwitter

Vitor Possebom @PossebomVitor

🚨New Working Paper🚨"Probability of Causation with Sample Selection: A Reanalysis of the Impacts of Jóvenes en Acción on Formality" by Possebom and Riva (2022, arxiv.org/abs/2210.01938) After so many years, @friva_ and I finally worked together on a paper. He is amazing!

Public goods

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi @AmbrogioCB

By popular demand, here is my Beamer theme that allows annotation of text, figures, and tables using arrows and handwritten-like text: github.com/ambropo/Jambro… A 🤓 thread on what the theme allows to do 👇🏼

github.comGitHub - ambropo/JambroBeamerTheme: JambroBeamerThemeJambroBeamerTheme. Contribute to ambropo/JambroBeamerTheme development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ed Kong @edkong

Interested in a list of hospitals in compliance with last year's CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule? Good news: @YunanJi and I are releasing the data from our 2022 JAMA Health Forum paper on ~4500 hospitals: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…. Link at end of 🧵👇 #medtwitter #econtwitter

jamanetwork.comUS Hospital Characteristics and Price Transparency Regulation ComplianceThis cross-sectional study examines associations between characteristics of US hospitals and their compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulations for transparency of insurance-negotiated prices.

Arthur Turrell @arthurturrell

Hey #econtwitter, seen 'Coding for Economists' yet? It's an online book on #python coding for research covering #datascience, #sql, automation, reproducibility, #dataviz, writing papers, regression, bayesian inference, time series, text analysis, & more!

aeturrell.github.ioIntroduction — Coding for Economists