Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 30, 2022 [1/2]
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Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 30, 2022 [1/2]
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 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
The randomized restriction obliged US firms to reduce hiring of foreign workers for low-skill jobs by 56%.
It caused those firms to contract sharply: Production fell 17%. It did not cause them to hire additional US workers.
🚨 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 (𝐌𝐢𝐬)𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (w @pdomingr and R. Undurraga) was accepted @ the 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙: 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 (@AEAjournals)
Does migration spur crime-related concerns?
I’m very happy that my first paper ever was just accepted at @RegScUrbEc!
The paper finds large effects of public housing demolitions in Chicago on local housing prices and neighborhood demographics.
A brief thread: (1/10)
Regional Science and Urban Economics @RegScUrbEc
HUD-provided geocodes for housing subsidized by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) are frequently inaccurate. We measure this inaccuracy & advise on how best to navigate it.
New paper w/ @nicolelizwilson, @melissaleesands, & Asya Magazinnik. 1/9
mhankinson.com/documents/liht…
𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆
• 73 teams tested same hypothesis w/ same data
• Outcomes varied widely, each workflow unique
• We attempt to explain outcomes from decisions, no easy answer
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
🚨New Working Paper
Delighted to share new research on gender norms in🇵🇾!
W/ colleagues @ McGill and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how a norm shifting intervention influences how women form gender norms beliefs tinyurl.com/278mez2j
A 🧵
Very interesting paper. The main point, as I understand it, is that rising corp concentration has been going on for a very long time, so any explanation that focuses on the very recent developments (like globalization or change in antitrust enforcement) is incomplete at best.
Public goods
TIL @JPAL_NA maintains a catalog of Administrative Data Sets!
Check it out here: povertyactionlab.org/catalog-admini…
We released a new public data set via @nberpubs that scholars in empirical macro and labor may find of interest
It puts together County*Industry data on employment and payroll from 1946-1974 (1975 onwards is already available)
Check out our homepage for a list of 700+ longitudinal datasets across the world that have info available online! Use the search 🔍function to find your dataset or others from your country! landscaping-longitudinal-research.com @wellcometrust @MQmentalhealth @DatamindUK @ODIHQ @GMentalHealth
Update: we added new population-based crosswalks that do not rely on the Fang and Jawitz (2018) data but that use historical data on property records by Leyk et al. (2020) instead. What’s new about it? A 🧵(All files available as csv or dta here: doi.org/10.3886/E150101)
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