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
Emily Nix@EmilyNix100
🧵 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]
6:07 PM · Oct 28, 2022
220 Reposts · 533 Likes
Emily Nix@EmilyNix100
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]
6:07 PM · Oct 28, 2022
13 Reposts · 38 Likes
Michael E. Rose 🇺🇦@Michael_E_Rose
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…
7:12 PM · Oct 27, 2022
9 Reposts · 49 Likes
Francesco Capozza@walraslaw
🚨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…
papers.ssrn.com
Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs and Demand for Mental Health Support
2:41 PM · Oct 30, 2022
10 Reposts · 25 Likes
ky@kylefbutts
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…
4:17 PM · Oct 28, 2022
4 Reposts · 26 Likes
Heidi L. Williams@heidilwilliams_
@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.
11:27 AM · Oct 24, 2022
3 Reposts · 23 Likes
More: Heterogeneous households in macroeconomic models HET; tools for Bayesian estimation of nonlinear dynamic economic models
Interesting discussions
Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦@wwwojtekk
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
7:49 PM · Oct 30, 2022
7 Reposts · 76 Likes
^“here” refers to EconTwitter. Submitting tweets to the newsletter has similar properties :)
Ashvin Gandhi@ashdgandhi
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
How does one transition from econometrician to influencer? And is it easier if one is an applied econometrician?
5:27 PM · Oct 18, 2022
1 Repost · 28 Likes
^what’s the causal impact of inclusion in the newsletter 😏
anthonyleezhang.eth@AnthonyLeeZhang
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
2:51 PM · Oct 28, 2022
3 Reposts · 38 Likes
anthonyleezhang.eth@AnthonyLeeZhang
- 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
2:52 PM · Oct 28, 2022
6 Likes
Jeffrey Smith@econjeffsmith
@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.
2:22 PM · Oct 30, 2022
^“useful on average, burdensome at the current margin”, one might hope
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp
Man, tenure-track is really stressful and feels like you’re scrambling up and sliding down a slippery slope with no handholds
10:51 PM · Oct 29, 2022
2 Reposts · 304 Likes
Heidi L. Williams@heidilwilliams_
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.
6:12 PM · Oct 30, 2022
35 Reposts · 144 Likes
Boaz Barak@boazbaraktcs
A lot of PhD advising is just prompt engineering
Alex Tamkin @AlexTamkin
If you think prompt engineering is bad now, just wait until large speech models:
"For some reason, when Lucia reads the prompt we get 10% higher accuracy"
"Have you tried singing the prompt?"
"Speaking Slowly Improves Chain of Thought Prompting"
7:07 PM · Oct 30, 2022
5 Reposts · 41 Likes
"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!