Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 11, 2022 [2/2]
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Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 11, 2022 [2/2]
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 two of two.
Paper summaries
Massive status bias in peer review.
534 reviewers randomized to review the same paper revealing the low status, high status, or neither author. 65% reject low status, 23% reject high status.
Amazing work by Juergen Huber and colleagues. #prc9
^there was a one-tweet summary of this in the Aug 28 edition, but worth having again in here
Secondary finding. >3000 potential reviewers were invited with the low, high, or neither status author revealed as the corresponding author in the review invitation. Reviewers substantially more likely to agree to review in the high status revealed condition.
^also, obviously(?), this is all positive not normative… refereeing is not zero-cost, also it’s hard
How can we measure the contribution of China to pushing the technological frontier? With @CyrilVerluise we are happy to realease this new draft.
In short, we use ML to select patents related to six illustrative tech and look at the contribution of China, Japan, Europe and the US
Finally out as working paper: "Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben"
IG Farben used to be the world's largest chemical company, and its post-WW2 breakup ranks among the major antitrust events in history.
What happened to innovation?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Now a thread about the paper! We estimate the slope and curvature of industry supply curves using several instruments and find strong evidence of convexity (1/3)
AEA Journals @AEAjournals
The most consequential book banning is for a book you probably never heard of: Charles Knowlton’s “Fruits of Philosophy; or, the Private Companion of Young Married People.”
A new paper suggests that the trial around this banned book had huge consequences for the world… 1/
Catalyzed by the trial, birth rates plummeted as the discussion about contraception spread throughout the English-speaking world.
This decrease in fertility, known as the Demographic Transition, greatly boosted the per-capita income of the US, UK, Australia & others. 4/
📢New WP! "#Gender and #Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response" (joint with @JP_Chauvin)
Why do female leaders behave differently? Can electoral incentives help explain gender differences?
👉Full paper: clemence.tricaud.com/research
Summary👇 1/9
!New working paper! In this paper, I show how classroom rank in kindergarten causes significant effects on short and long-run academic outcomes. 1/n
A new short paper with Roberto: Slutsky Matrix Symmetry: A New Behavioral Condition. We make connections with the literature on price inattention and departures from symmetric behavior in the substitution patterns of consumption
researchgate.net/publication/36…
More: Medicare Advantage vs traditional Medicare; weather shocks and food price seasonality; tracking consumers; US health care wait time
Interesting discussions
^Aghion, Jones, and Jones (2019)
This is good advice for econ/finance paper presentations as well
Patrick McKenzie @patio11
Just released the first draft of the Funding chapter in the "CS Assistant Prof Book"
vijay03.github.io/asstprofbook/c…
With an example budget, and answers to common questions such as "what are indirect costs"!
Book at: vijay03.github.io/asstprofbook/
^tempting to include this one in every edition of the newsletter