Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 16, 2022 [1/4]

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 four.

Paper summaries

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs

Pretty striking difference in the distribution of z-scores for control variables vs. key treatment effects in top econ journals minneapolisfed.org/research/staff…

Michael E. Rose 🇺🇦 @Michael_E_Rose

Dear #EconTwitter, would you like to have a #discussant at the @nberpubs summer institutes or not? Our new study in #ResearchPolicy suggest a Yes: "papers that have a discussant are published in highly-ranked journals and are more likely to be published in a top journal." 1/9

Caleb Watney @calebwatney

A pretty wild finding! For Nobel Prize-winning economists, there seems to be a massive difference in the age at which they do their most important research depending on the _type_ of work that it is. Conceptual research skews young while experimental work skews middle-to-old.

^Weinberg and Galenson (2005)

Alex MacKay @_amackay

New working paper! We examine the adoption of a dynamic pricing algorithm and high-frequency data to address two questions: (1) How do consumers respond to dynamic pricing? and (2) What is the potential for dynamic pricing to reduce costs? ssrn.com/abstract=41642…

Tommaso Valletti @TomValletti

“Breaking up companies is impossible and terrible. It kills innovation!” It really does? Fascinating new paper by Felix Poege @f_poeg. Looks at the break up of IG Farben in post-war Germany. 1/

W. Benedikt Schmal @schmal_w

Cartels cause lots of harm to consumer welfare - think of the vitamin cartels, the truck cartel, the concrete cartel - but how do we study and examine cartels? My new WP investigates all pubs on collusion from the past 20ys and elicits important changes⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2210.02957

Caspar Kaiser @caspar_kaiser

Andrew Oswald’s and my recent PNAS paper received quite some attention - both positive and negative. The paper gives evidence of a close to linear association between survey data on satisfaction and later actions. A short meta-🧶. (1/8) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Jessica Leight @leightjessica

Lots of interesting papers coming out about effects of childcare on range of outcomes in developing countries, so time for a short #EconTwitter 🧵! Focusing here on papers that go beyond parsing out the daycare - employment relationship

Tareena Musaddiq @tareena_m

Can cash transfers to increase girl’s enrolment in secondary schooling have long term effects on their marriage, fertility & healthcare decisions, and the health of their children? @_farahsaid and I answer this in my JMP, now forthcoming @WorldDevJournal (1/10) 🧵

Public goods

Kim Fe Cramer @KimFeCramer

Job market guide! What complementary skills do you need on the market? How to prepare the Spiel? My Columbia PhD colleague @kerrysiani (now MIT Sloan) and I discuss these and other questions in our new jm guide. Share it with your colleagues/students!

kimfecramer.comPublic Goods | mysite

Brian Nosek @BrianNosek

Are you interested in ideology, morality, political psych, implicit and explicit measures, or individual differences? We are releasing a massive dataset (>280k sessions) with dozens of individual difference measures, implicit and explicit measures. 1/

docs.google.comCall for Registered Reports - Ideology DatasetRegistered Reports using a large, existing dataset of individual differences and implicit and explicit measures related to ideology Coordinating Team: Kathleen Schmidt, Charlie Ebersole, and Brian Nosek Deadline to request exploratory data: December 15, 2022 Deadline to submit Stage 1 Registere...

Paul Novosad @paulnovosad

📣📣 New data alert: we @devdatalab are releasing open village and town maps for all of India. Find them at the top link here: devdatalab.org/shrug_download… We wrote a post with some more details about the maps: devdatalab.medium.com/open-access-ge… @thesamasher @tobylunt 1/5

devdatalab.medium.comOpen-Access Geospatial Data for IndiaDevelopment Data Lab is releasing a new set of open boundaries for all of India.