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