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

May 16

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 three of three.

Paper summary threads

Saksham Khosla @khoslasaksham

4-5 (!) years after a randomized set of depressed adults received a psychotherapy course in India (costing $66 per recipient): - they were 11pp less likely to be depressed - experienced 9 fewer months of depression - experienced changes in feeling bad, overconfidence, altruism

Joel Waldfogel @JWaldfogel

GDPR aims to improve privacy in various ways, some of which are costly to app developers. As a result, GDPR induced a large number of apps to exit rather than face the costs of coming into compliance.

Alexander Berger @albrgr

Kinda crazy paper finding that even the Cultural Revolution didn't come close to eliminating the lasting impact of historical socioeconomic status in China: davidyyang.com/pdfs/revolutio…

Elliot Lipnowski @ElliotLip

Today's edition of "classics in game theory" (Ben-Porath and Dekel, 1992) gives a cool example demonstrating the power of signaling in strategic interactions.

Matthias Doepke @mdoepke

Recently finished a new survey on "Educational Inequality" with my amazing coauthors Jo Blanden and Jan Stuhler. I learned a lot! Here: A thread on what it all means for the future of economic inequality and social mobility. 1/20

Seth Zimmerman @SethDZimmerman

New paper alert: Centralized School Choice with Unequal Outside Options with @akbarpour_ @ChrisANeilson @adamkapor and @WinnieVanDijk sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Leonard Seabrooke @LenSeabrooke

What did we find? On citations we find that the Chicago profs stuck together while the Harvard & MIT profs fragmented. From the mid-1970s Charles River students were more likely to cite Chicago profs than their own. These trends occur before neoliberal economics takes off [6/9]

More: peers and personality; education RCT; cyberattack; maternity leave; fentanyl data; market integration and spread of renewable energy; price discrimination in negotiation; monetary policy transmission through equity financing

Interesting discussions

Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when the final slide of a presentation says, “Thank You!” We can’t just say it anymore?

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

Consider better replacements such as: 1. A summary of results. 2. A key graph or equation. 3. A recipe for banana bread

Anna SdTC @annasdtc

@SpillerSAS @jmwooldridge @kjhealy I used to have a "thank you" slide but then one of my professors told me that if you leave your "insights/summary" slide during the Q&A, the public is looking at it for some minutes (helping them remember). Now I add "thank you" at the bottom corner of the final (insights) slide.

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

The list of Basic Presentation Habits That Make Me Judge You. Thanks @jmwooldridge and @KhoaVuUmn for getting the ball rolling! 🧵 1/219

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

3. Notation that of the form A_a^{\mathcal{A}}, with each script referring to a different mathematical object.

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

6. In the interest of time I’m skipping the next 200 slides.

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

208. Now that only 5 minutes remain, let me state the extension to N players, T periods, and the universal type space.

Thomas Kang @kangthomas

Is this real Twitter?

Heidi Tworek @HeidiTworek

Every year, my students in my IR history course impress me so much with their Wikipedia pages. They have to write on something that does not already have an entry. Here are this year's creations which have already been viewed over 250k. times (1/ 8)

Masonic the Hedgehog @MissPavIichenko

Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who deciphered the Maya script, listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and got pissed whenever editors cropped her out https://t.co/xZqflZPw4b

Sami Schalk @DrSamiSchalk

In one of my student’s final project acknowledgements they thank their cat.

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