Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 15, 2022 [1/3]

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 three.

Paper summary threads

Johanna Rickne @johannarickne

Our paper on workplace sexual harassment is now out in the QJE! (with @OlleFolke). A thread on what we do and find, using nationally representative survey data, administrative data, and a survey experiment. Read the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

May 12th 2022

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne

Women face three times as much sexual harassment from colleagues and managers as men do. This exposure increases with the share of men in the workplace. Men’s harassment has the opposite pattern and exceeds women’s in strongly female-dominated workplaces. (Left figure)

May 12th 2022

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^it is too bad that Substack cuts off the images in tweets, you can click through to see (Swedish data, data points are estimates from an AKM model)

Kristina Manysheva 🇺🇦 @manysheva_k

📢New @cepr_org paper with @enrico_berkes and Martí Mestieri on Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity using historical patent data covering a large set of countries over the past century:📢 1/n

CEPR @cepr_org

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17285 Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from 100 Years of World Patent Data Enrico Berkes @OhioState, Kristina Manysheva @manysheva_k @NUEconomics, Martí Mestieri @NUEconomics @ChicagoFed https://t.co/dgLQvS39Ut #CEPR_MG https://t.co/J9StjshH0G

May 9th 2022

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Kristina Manysheva 🇺🇦 @manysheva_k

We then document substantial technological waves and variation in countries' specialization. 3/n

May 9th 2022

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Florian Ederer @florianederer

The 20th Annual @IIOC_IO conference was a blast! There were so many interesting papers across the whole range of industrial organization topics. editorialexpress.com/conference/IIO… Here are a few of my favorites (with an obvious innovation bias): 🧵20th annual International Industrial Organization Conferenceeditorialexpress.com

May 15th 2022

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Arnaud Dyevre @ArnaudDyevre

A paper I am really proud of is coming in print! It is joint work with the great @crescenzi_r (LSE) and @FrankNeffke (Harvard Growth Lab). It asks: What is the impact of foreign investments by firms on innovation in cities? What is the role of firm heterogeneity in this? Short🧵

May 9th 2022

23 Retweets95 Likes

Matt Webb @mattdwebb

Hey #EconTwitter, do you use clustered standard errors? Do you worry about reliable inference? Our new guide explains when you should worry, when you shouldn't, and how to make better inferences. A joint 🧵 with @jgmQED and @MortenEcon. 1/

May 12th 2022

121 Retweets480 Likes

Clément de Chaisemartin @CdeChaisemartin

New version of our survey on TWFE and DID, with an application: we revisit @JustinWolfers's AER paper on unilateral divorce laws, using several new DID estimators. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Dofile may be useful for those trying to implement those estimators: code_Ectj.dodrive.google.com

May 10th 2022

89 Retweets383 Likes

Jason Kerwin @jt_kerwin

🚨🚨New publication alert!!🚨🚨 Our paper “Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention” is now out at the Journal of Econometrics @JEconometrics! 🎉🎉🎉 Access it FREE via this link for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1f32A15DjiBH… 1/N

May 12th 2022

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Will Matcham @willmatchamecon

Arxiv released my working paper with Tatiana Komarova today: arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05779… This is my first foray into econometrics, though I find the economic motivation exciting. On the economics, we study the identification and estimation of decision bracketing. A thread:

May 13th 2022

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Public goods

Matt Webb @mattdwebb

Hi #EconTwitter and #SocialScience. James MacKinnon, Morten Nielsen, and I are excited to announce our @Stata package summclust. It is designed to assess the reliability of conventional cluster-robust inference. It also calculates improved standard errors.🧵 1/

May 9th 2022

74 Retweets261 Likes

Sara C. Bronin @sarabronin

ALL HANDS ON DECK: It's time to create a National Zoning Atlas to democratize information about zoning - & help all of us understand its impact: bit.ly/3KJTvf3 A small coordinating team will sit in the @CornellAAP Legal Constructs Lab (bit.ly/3E29of0), but...

May 12th 2022

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Sam Asher @thesamasher

🚨Announcement!🚨 Since 2020, @devdatalab has been working with @NITI Aayog to address last-mile data delivery challenges in India. Today NITI launched NDAP, a paradigm shift in the world of govt open data platforms. Check it out! ndap.niti.gov.in @OTSi_India @IDinsightNational Data and Analytics PlatformNDAPndap.niti.gov.in

May 13th 2022

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Tatyana Deryugina 🇺🇦 @TDeryugina

You demanded and we supplied! Here is an "Economists for Ukraine" t-shirt you can buy & wear proudly (other colors & women's T available too). Buy one for the economist in your life! Profits will benefit humanitarian aid in Ukraine. bonfire.com/economists-for…

May 11th 2022

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Interesting discussions

Chris Blattman @cblatts

Medellin, Colombia has 100s of powerful gangs, but still went from one of the most violent cities in the world to homicide rates far lower than that of St Louis, Baltimore or Detroit. What happened? The story here: great success, but at a terrible & hidden price. A 🧵

May 11th 2022

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Chris Blattman @cblatts

Why did America stay in Afghanistan 20 years? Everyone has their pet theory. But I study conflict for a living, and I was always puzzled Here's how a Chicago gang leader changed the way I look at America's long war. And what he taught me about why we fight more generally. A 🧵

May 13th 2022

197 Retweets787 Likes