Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 29, 2020 (2/2)
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.
This is part two of two. Part one is here, featuring the ‘paper summaries’ and ‘public goods’ sections.
More public goods
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Junior scholars in Econ submit a working paper and receive comments from a senior scholar. Aims to expand & diversify access to high quality feedback. Excited to launch with @EliraKuka!
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New paper with @MattGrossmann and @MartyPJordan:
The Correlates of State Policy and the Structure of State Panel Data (joshuamccrain.com/wp-content/upl…)
We introduce the Correlates of State Policy Project data, describe its structure and advantages, and use it in an applied setting 1/n
📢 The VAR TOOLBOX 3.0 is now available 📢
sites.google.com/site/ambropo/M…
The VAR Toolbox is a collection of Matlab codes to perform Vector Autoregression analysis. It comes with a "Primer on VARs" (code + slides) with examples and replications of well-known papers
[Short thread] 👇🏼
Interesting discussions
Eddie Lazear managed to write tons of interesting papers in Labor Economics without being on the hunt for natural experiments or randomization.
Non-Causal Applied Micro, a lost art? Are we still training this?
(This is no critique of causal tools, but maybe of its tyranny)
I never understood complaints about journal fees. We don't balk at spending hundreds of thousands or even millions (faculty salary, RAs, data, equipment, etc.) to write a paper, but we get squeamish about $10k to finance a thorough review process and widespread dissemination?
Carl T. Bergstrom @CT_Bergstrom
^good discussion in replies to both of these first two
Academics should record audiobooks of their papers.
I'm tired of listening to pop non-fiction books while I cook, clean, etc.
What if all the research productivity gains from computers and the internet are being lost to a worse journal process. More referee dialogue, more rejections and revisions with new formatting requirements each time, etc..
A very good question was asked during Q&A, that I wanted to further respond to. The question in essence was: why do place-based policy to respond to high non-employment -- aren't there more direct policies to address the market failure? (I don't recall who asked Q).
Anna Stansbury @annastansbury
A field that doesn't exist but should: econometric epistemology. Using modern empirical methods to isolate the causal impact of expertise on beliefs might be the best way to figure out what's true in many (most?) contexts.
Job market papers
Hi #EconTwitter, I’m a job market candidate at the University of Tennessee. I research topics in labor and public economics and I’m excited to talk to you about my job market paper! #EconJobMarket
Link: papers.corabennett.org/ILdraft.pdf
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🚨 Ian Herzog from Toronto studies the effects of London’s congestion charge on traffic, commuting, and the spatial distribution of econ. activity. His ambitious JMP features reduced form evidence and a quantitative model with endogenous congestion externalities and mode choice.
Study finds that when far right mayors get elected, hate crimes against immigrants increase.
The paper compares localities in Italy where far right mayors narrowly won to localities where they narrowly lost.
Job market paper by @alessio_romarri
bit.ly/3fhnYmC
UB School of Economics @ubeconomics
A thread on @mmoralmo's amazing job market paper, one of the best crime/social policy papers I've seen.
Suppose you're mayor. You learn that a program--maybe it's drug treatment, lighting, social services, or policing--drops crime by a big amount. How much should you invest?
Hi #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket,
Here is a short thread summarizing my Job Market Paper in which I study the long-term and intergenerational impacts of expanding educational opportunities for girls through large scale primary school construction in rural Punjab, Pakistan. (1/N)
If you want to curb corruption and mismanagement, audit people unexpectedly, right? "Be unpredictable!" a certain ex-President once said.
Maybe not.
A thread on @wendynassrwong's job market paper.
Hello #EconTwitter! I am very excited to share my 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿: "Credit Cards, the Demand for Money, and Monetary Aggregation". The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 (and more info about me) can be found at jinanliu.com
