Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 18, 2022 [2/3]
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 three.
Paper summaries
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Using data on midlife suicide,sleeping problems, alcohol dependence, concentration difficulties, memory problems, intense job strain, disabling headaches, suicidal feelings, and extreme depression, we document a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations
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In our new paper, we quantify monopsony power for a uniquely long period (1845-1913), comparing the evolution of marginal revenue product of labor with actual wages (i.e. the ‘markdown’) paid to Belgian coal workers. (2/10)
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No! Although some markdowns were imposed on workers, wages grew in close relation with the marginal product of labor during most of the 19th century. (5/10)
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Hi everyone! @nunopgpalma and I have a new version of our paper—"The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal"—out.
Comments and feedback (+amplification) welcome.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…
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A project I’ve been working on for a while is out now as a CSAE working paper! It explores the relationship between droughts, irrigation, and insurgency in Southeastern Turkey. 1/11
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f…
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🔊What was the first regime in History able to deploy fiat standard as the sole legal tender?
✅It was the Yuan (1260–1368) dynasty in China!
The Mongols were not savages!
Find below all about it in our new paper! (joint with Hanhui Guan of Peking University & @MengWu_EcoHis)
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Are women worse programmers?
Do employers believe they are?
Our new paper suggests the answers are
1)No
2)Yes (especially female employers!)
Silver lining: these false beliefs can be corrected with additional information.
#EconTwitter 🧵
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New short paper with @ipogadog: We estimate that Covid-19 illnesses have reduced the US labor force by ~500,000 workers & provide the first representative estimates of Covid’s direct labor supply effects.
Paper: nber.org/papers/w30435
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Our paper that proposes and tests a new method for designing survey modules — by combining qualitative interviews and machine learning — is now out in @WorldDevJournal.
The application: survey module for measuring women's agency in India. doi.org/10.1016/j.worl…
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The whole sad story of audience capture in a paper. Someone who unexpectedly has a post go viral:
1. Starts to post more
2. Makes their future posts more like the post that went viral, in an attempt to recapture the glory
3. Attention usually fades rapidly ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…
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Public goods
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Slides/lecture material on economic theory and global prioritisation by (the great!) Phil Trammel docs.google.com/document/d/1df…
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just found an incredible resource to understand what parts of the USA are friendly to development: @Wharton's Residential Land Use Regulatory Index
the raw data was a hard to navigate, so I put it in a spreadsheet & annotated it to make it easier:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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🚨🚨 @cp_roth and I have provided a resource collection for econ grad students: sites.google.com/view/econgrada… which we will keep updating and hope you find it helpful!
👉👉 Now we need your input: What other public good would be helpful? Please respond to tweet or DM!
Interesting discussions
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Folks talking about the timing of the AEA meetings on #econtwitter: there's some fascinating historical trivia in this 2008 John Siegfried article on the history of the meetings. And some clues that maybe it's time to switch to a summer meeting...🧵
jstor.org/stable/2773974…
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Prediction: <5% of academic institutions will hold in-person interviews at ASSAs. The vast majority will do so virtually, into the foreseeable future.
As a consequence, attendance at the ASSA/AEA will fall. Generally a bad time of year/place in country to host a conference.
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Jake Vigdor @JakeVigdor