Got econtwitter research ideas?

TLDR: The newsletter has generated a nice dataset related to Econtwitter. Want to collaborate?

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Hey folks —

Been a few weeks :). The newsletter is still here, and it will be catching up on the backlog of links from the last month. Relatedly:

The Best of Econtwitter newsletter has been going steadily for nearly 4 years at this point: the first time it has missed a single week was the gap this last month.

This has generated a pretty unique dataset (e.g. the ~entire corpus of twitter threads about econ papers posted by the authors, since 2020).

If you have ideas for research which could be done with this dataset or with the newsletter itself — *and you would like to collaborate* — I’d love to hear from you. Natural questions are things like:

• Descriptive: What kinds of papers are discussed on econtwitter? What kinds of papers are successful on twitter vs. in journals? How do networks of interactions among economists on twitter differ from coauthorship networks? Can one observe attention bartering?

• Causal (and potentially experimental): What is the effect (if any) of the marginal retweet on future citations? Does retweet value depend on tweeter characteristics? Can we learn about what kinds of interactions cause tweeters to become coauthors?

Special invitation to grad students interested in metascience-y things (though there’s presumably not a JMP-level paper to be written here… but all the better if you disagree!).

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