Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 30, 2022 [2/2]
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 two.
There will be a(t least one) JMP special edition this week; feel free to submit threads ahead of time. It’s harder to find newer accounts :)
Paper summaries
🧵 on new paper w/ @abicadams, @KristiinaHuttu2 & @ningzhang0927: "Violence Against Women at Work"
#MeToo demonstrated assaults b/w colleagues are an internationally relevant phenomenon. We study consequences of realized assaults for perpetrators, victims & wider firm. [1/18]
We use this approach to provide some first estimates of the impacts of realized assaults b/w colleagues. Results are, to put it mildly, harrowing. Earnings growth of victims/perps indistinguishable from other workers before incident. After, labor market outcomes plummet. [4/18]
Sexual misconduct is widespread, also in science (cf. twitter).
➡️What happens to the research and careers of the accused?⬅️
My new WP with two colleagues @ip_inno_comp has the answer: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
🚨New working paper available, after 2 years of infinite challenges shared with @Miacam10 and @VahidMoghani
Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs and Demand for Mental Health Support among University Students -- A thread 🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
New paper in Journal of Urban Economics with @TMKom and @_WagnerG_. We estimate the local fiscal multiplier for government spending *declines* from the 2011 Budget Control Act
5-min summary: kylebutts.com/papers/fiscal-…
Full Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@MarcellaAlsan @mayadurvasula Paper posted here: nber.org/papers/w30575. While not the main result of our paper, the graph below is one that I have found particularly thought-provoking.
More: Heterogeneous households in macroeconomic models HET; tools for Bayesian estimation of nonlinear dynamic economic models
Interesting discussions
Your public presence here is a public good.
It's non-rivalrous: one person enjoying or hating it doesn't stop another one from doing so.
It's non-excludable: even if you block, incognito mode and burner accounts exist.
Feel good about yourself giving to everyone by being here
^“here” refers to EconTwitter. Submitting tweets to the newsletter has similar properties :)
Joking aside, I bet that a @KhoaVuUmn tweet about a paper is probably worth a lot more for visibility and impact than a lot of other costly promotion that universities do for their research.
Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge
^what’s the causal impact of inclusion in the newsletter 😏
Suppose you are bad at presenting research, like nobody can follow well when you present (the first step is to realize you are bad). Here is a suggested way to improve:
- Find a friend, who hasn't heard about your project, ideally kinda far from your field
- Attempt to explain project to friend. Ask friend to be super critical of explanation, ask whenever they're not following anything. Takes notes on any questions/clarifications/etc friend asks
- Find another friend who hasn't heard about your project
@cblatts Advising students is sometimes a burden, particularly at lower-ranked institutions. Even at top departments, it needs to be balanced against your own publications, lest your colleagues take advantage and let you do the advising, they write the papers and get the merit raises.
^“useful on average, burdensome at the current margin”, one might hope
Man, tenure-track is really stressful and feels like you’re scrambling up and sliding down a slippery slope with no handholds
Some people – myself included – enter academia wanting to invest in research as a form of public service. But it can sometimes feel hard to find points of connection of where academic research can be useful to the day-to-day decisions facing policy makers.
A lot of PhD advising is just prompt engineering
Alex Tamkin @AlexTamkin
"causal impact of inclusion in the newsletter" Well, it encourages me to share papers I find interesting with my friends and colleagues! I appreciate the work you do on this!
"causal impact of inclusion in the newsletter" Well, it encourages me to share papers I find interesting with my friends and colleagues! I appreciate the work you do on this!