Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 16, 2022 [1/4]
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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…
1:49 PM · Oct 11, 2022
109 Reposts · 644 Likes
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."
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8:28 PM · Oct 13, 2022
20 Reposts · 107 Likes
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.
3:36 AM · Oct 14, 2022
23 Likes
^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…
1:37 PM · Oct 12, 2022
34 Reposts · 111 Likes
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/
7:28 AM · Oct 10, 2022
59 Reposts · 250 Likes
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
1:06 PM · Oct 11, 2022
10 Reposts · 35 Likes
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…
3:08 PM · Oct 10, 2022
108 Reposts · 572 Likes
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
3:10 PM · Oct 14, 2022
23 Reposts · 108 Likes
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)
🧵
3:37 PM · Oct 15, 2022
54 Reposts · 237 Likes
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.com
Public Goods | mysite
3:29 PM · Oct 11, 2022
92 Reposts · 276 Likes
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.com
Call for Registered Reports - Ideology Dataset
10:57 AM · Oct 13, 2022
188 Reposts · 605 Likes
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
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devdatalab.medium.com
Open-Access Geospatial Data for India
1:53 PM · Oct 14, 2022
293 Reposts · 1.07K Likes