Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 13, 2022 [1/3]

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 one of three.

Paper summaries

Dean Eckles @deaneckles

GDPR and clinical trials doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2…

Saloni @salonium

Important update to 'the worm wars'... This major new study, which is a 23-year follow up of an RCT, finds that deworming reduced mortality in under-5s in Kenya by 24% (!) 🪱 editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…

^haven’t followed this lit closely but:

Rubi J. Hudson @undo_hubris

@salonium The original Busia RCT and its follow-ups have consistently shown large positive effects. Since the controversy is that other RCTs have failed to find them, I don't think another positive follow-up to the same study shifts the needle much in the worm wars.

Heidi L. Williams @heidilwilliams_

. @mayadurvasula Scott Hemphill @PatentScholar Bhaven Sampat and I have a new working paper aimed at deciphering the complicated patchwork of patents and regulatory exclusivities needed to understand many aspects of biomedical innovation: nber.org/papers/w30628.

nber.orgThe NBER Orange Book Dataset: A User’s GuideFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Daniel P. Gross @daniel_p_gross

🚨🚨🚨 Updated WP: "America, Jump-started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the U.S. Innovation System" The impacts of one of the largest public R&D investments in U.S. history on the direction & organization of innovation. Joint w/ Bhaven Sampat. nber.org/papers/w27375

nber.orgAmerica, Jump-started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the U.S. Innovation SystemFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Bledi Taska @Bledi_Taska

Many emerging technologies hold the potential for a wide-reaching and transformative effect on the economy. However, we currently do not have a robust and data-driven method to identify and separate those truly transformative technologies. 🧵and a new 📜 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Alexander Berger @albrgr

More evidence of big long run effects from increasing childhood vaccination, from Burkina Faso in this case: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…

Saksham Khosla @khoslasaksham

Politically connected firms in India were more likely to access short-term credit (especially bank loans) during demonetization and delay payments to suppliers and creditors. They weathered the crisis better than their peers, with 8-10% higher income, sales, costs over 3 years.

Interesting discussions

Simon Heß @simonhhess

I teach intro metrics this year @univienna. Inspired by @robertostling, I created some animations in @rmarkdown that I think are helpful for visualizing concepts from the course. Happy to share the code. 1: The sampling distribution (of OLS)

Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht

"What Austrian economics should I read? Not history of thought or philosophy but actual ECONOMICS about the world." That's what a professor of mine asked me recently. Here are my suggestions 🧵

Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano

We should all be doing all we can to make @Twitter thrive (@elonmusk or no Musk)- it is a stunning information source. If you experience Twitter as a swamp, you only have youself to blame. You choose who you follow, block and mute. A thread in praise of Twitter. (1/7)

^tweet is written kind of too bluntly, but: choose your information diet extremely carefully!

maia @maiamindel

moving from twitter to mastodon is like moving from stata to eviews