Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 8, 2020

Nov 09, 2020

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter. Thanks to those sharing suggestions, over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Paper summaries

Mariacristina De Nardi@M_De_Nardi

1/7 De Nardi, Fella, Knoef, Paz-Pardo, Van Ooijen (2020), forthcoming: JPubE. What drives labor market income risk? We use Dutch and U.S. data to decompose earnings changes between hours and wages and to study how the family and the government help to insure against them.

5:21 PM · Nov 2, 2020

19 Reposts · 83 Likes

Michael R. Strain@MichaelRStrain

THREAD. In my latest working paper, @dwschanz and I find that EITC expansions increase employment. On average, employment increased by about 5 percentage points by the fifth year following an EITC expansion.

3:52 PM · Nov 2, 2020

34 Reposts · 109 Likes

Amanda Glassman@glassmanamanda

#cash #nutrition - 23% decline in #stunting in #Indonesia - huge effect https://t.co/kZ8obFnWW4

Ugo Gentilini @Ugentilini

Paper alert! Article by Cahyadi et al finds that in #Indonesia, 6 ys of PKH conditional #cashtransfers led to more childbirths using trained professionals, 23% decline in stunting, & halving of children out of school. But no impact on family jobs/assets. https://t.co/WQmJcJjB2M https://t.co/4DsOmrg7I3

7:06 PM · Nov 5, 2020

1 Repost · 5 Likes

Creig Lamb@creiglamb

1) Big Monday for all the automation heads out there. New Stats Can study shows confirms what @dk_munro @vviet93 and myself have been saying for a while: firms automate to improve productivity, which *increases* firm-level employment

www150.statcan.gc.ca

The Employment Consequences of Robots: Firm-level Evidence

3:35 PM · Nov 2, 2020

9 Reposts · 22 Likes

Alexander Berger@albrgr

Insanely large (10pp!) effects on voter turnout in South Africa from telling people their party is polling just ahead in this @kateorkin RCT: dropbox.com/s/0gp6ora3bxao…

8:40 PM · Nov 6, 2020

12 Reposts · 51 Likes

Nozomi Nakajima@nozominaka

New @nberpubs working paper w/ wonderful coauthors @felbarrera @paul_gertler @hpatrinos Low-cost, group-based information intervention increases parental involvement in schools, changes parenting behavior at home, and reduces disciplinary action in schools. A thread 👇 1/N

3:28 PM · Nov 2, 2020

13 Reposts · 39 Likes

Dean Eckles@deaneckles

🎯How can we learn to target interventions when we care about outcomes that are only observed after a delay?🗓️ This comes up in settings as varied as clinical trials (5 yr all-cause mortality) and marketing (customer lifetime value). Our new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2010.15835

10:46 PM · Nov 2, 2020

36 Reposts · 145 Likes

Chris Edmond@chrisedmond

On the off chance you're wanting a break from US politics... Here's a new version of "Creating Confusion" (just accepted by JET) on the politics of disinformation, joint with Yang Lu. 1/ chrisedmond.net/Edmond%20Lu%20… [@jayrosen_nyu getting cited in economics journals now]

5:41 AM · Nov 2, 2020

16 Reposts · 64 Likes

Job market papers

Elif Bike Osun@elifbikeosun

Very cool paper by @NinaRoussille. It's not surprising to me that there is a gender ask gap in salaries, but it's very surprising that the gap can be completely eliminated by pre-filling the answer box AND that women do not face penalty for asking the same wage as men.

Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac

Nina Roussille JMP: "The central role of the ask gap in gender pay inequality" Website: https://t.co/OinqvDgD9U https://t.co/ureaBtwjTp

4:57 PM · Nov 3, 2020

7 Reposts · 25 Likes

Dr. Peter Q. Blair@pqblair

*Check out this JMP* by @Ebehi_Iyoha of @VanderbiltEcon: "Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-level Evidence from the US Production Network." Headline: new approach for estimating production spillovers in networks + empirical estimates. @ben_golub

4:44 AM · Nov 2, 2020

15 Reposts · 50 Likes

Ben Moll@ben_moll

Want to learn how to incorporate present bias into your macro model to better match empirical evidence on consumption behavior? Check out "Present Bias in Consumption-Saving Models: A Tractable Continuous-Time Approach" by Harvard PhD student Peter Maxted scholar.harvard.edu/files/maxted/f…

Ben Moll @ben_moll

New paper "Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy" w Laibson & Maxted https://t.co/RDaRnKQUen Main results in title, though some more subtlety for monetary policy bc present-biased households procrastinate refinancing their mortgages https://t.co/Mbj9fDv94b

9:44 AM · Nov 7, 2020

13 Reposts · 61 Likes