Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 31, 2021 [1/2]
Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Thanks to those sharing suggestions, over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
This is part one of two, this week. Part two is here.
Paper summary threads
If you rank all households by how much of each "sin good" they buy, the top 10% of households buy (80% of beer, wine, spirits separately) and about 2/3 of all alcohol. Cigarettes are even more concentrated (only about 8% of households buy any at all). 2/8
We have data on household purchases (for at home consumption) but if you assume equal consumption for every adult in the household (a big "if") then 5-6 drinks per week would put you in the top 10% of drinkers, and 10 drinks per week would put you in the top 5%. 2/2
^emphasizing the “big if” but contrast with the viral Washington Post chart
Fresh paper in @SSReditorial! We link the production of felony criminal records to depressed employment rates using state-year fixed effects models. Thanks to @sarahksshannon, @aaronsojourner, and @chrisuggen for their mentorship and an awesome collaboration!
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner
📣🔴📣🔴 NEW WP! 🔴📣🔴📣
My work re-examining the health impacts at 18y of the #DutchHungerWinter is finally out!
👉🏻 bit.ly/3DNVMTE
Using newly digitized historical records linked to military recruits data, we investigate impacts, mechanisms & selection effects. 1/2
In 2014, the Colombian gov announced it would pay farmers to substitute away from coca, which reduced acreage.
But the program was announced well in advance; farmers substituted into coca to gain eligibility for the program. Fine-grained data also indicates spillover effects.
The "paper of week": Trade-Induced Urbanization and the Making of Modern Agriculture (accepted RESTUD) by Tian, Xia, and Yang (apparently none of them on twitter!). What happens when cities boom due to trade for connected rural villages? Out-migrations leads to:
Interesting study finding that voters may tend to prefer women candidates.
👇Results of a meta-analysis of 67 choice experiments all over the world, randomising the gender of candidates.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…
It was incredible to be able to play a small role in this project led by Mike O’Donnell, @donandrewmoore, and Leif Nelson. 🧵 on the paper, the project, and replications as a pedagogical tool. 1/9
pnas.org/content/118/44…
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?
A new super interesting paper suggests no.
Many Clean Development Mechanism projects are inframarginal and offsets end up increasing CO2 emissions!
By Calel, @JonathanColmer, Dechezleprêtre, & Glachant.
cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_…
Hey, #EconTwitter, I am happy to share my first single-authored working paper "Private Labels in Marketplaces". It asks the question how a private label strategy differs in a marketplace setting compared to classic retailer's setting. shorturl.at/oIMR1 1/n
How important are the shortfalls in state public pensions systems? My paper nber.org/papers/w29405 with @darrenaiello @ProfAsaf Ryan Lewis and Michael Schwert on @nberpubs measures their economic burden on households #EconTwitter @BYUMarriott @leedsbiz @giesbusiness @Wharton 1/N
We find that marginal home buyers at state borders exhibit a willingness to pay of about $2 for each additional $1 of pension fundedness per property, using property-level data from @zillow and @RetirementRsrch with support from @UCLAZimanCenter 8/N
Interesting discussions
What's a sign that someone is becoming a better economist?
Say you take first-year economics professors and then look 10 years later. How would you measure if they had become better economists?
#EconTwitter, I need your help. I love econometric books with coding examples, such as:
- The Mixtape by @causalinf
- The Effect by @nickchk
- Brave and True @MatheusFacure.
But they are all focused on X-section and panel.
Do you recommend anything focusing on time series?
