Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 10, 2021

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.

Paper summary threads

Dashun Wang @dashunwang

There have been so many interesting papers published in the #ScienceOfScience just within the past days, that it warrants a thread to tweet about them! Here it is. A trio of papers on the growth of fields 1/

October 7th 2021

19 Retweets52 Likes

Ethan Mollick @emollick

The paradox of our Golden Age of science: more research is being published by more scientists than ever, but the result is actually slowing progress! With too much to read & absorb, papers in more crowded fields are citing new work less, and canonizing highly-cited articles more.

October 7th 2021

1,188 Retweets3,561 Likes

Igor Letina @IgorLetina

1/ I want to tell you about a super interesting paper I saw presented yesterday: *Talent Hoarding in Organizations* by @HaegeleIngrid A short 🧵

October 9th 2021

35 Retweets131 Likes

Aurelie Ouss @AurelieOuss

Judges in North Carolina rotate across courtrooms, and don't just work where they're elected. Their sentencing practices in a new place are initially different from what local judges do. But over time, they converge towards local sentencing norms. 2/4

October 7th 2021

6 Retweets32 Likes

Pascal Michaillat @pmichaillat

Our work builds a model of promotion chains inspired by the behavior of beetles in flour jars at @UChicago in the 1950s and 1960s. When populations of two different species of beetle are placed into jars, one species quickly vanish -- & not necessarily the less biologically fit.

October 4th 2021

1 Like

^thread; and yes you’re reading the right newsletter

Martin Beraja @MartinBeraja

🚨New paper🚨 with @ChristianKWolf Consider two recessions. In one, people stop buying cars and furniture. In the other, they stop going to restaurants and the dentist. Would you expect the economic recoveries to differ? A thread 🧵... 1/n @MITEcon #EconTwitter

NBER @nberpubs

Recoveries from recessions concentrated in services and non-durables will tend to be weaker than from recessions biased towards durables, as the recovery is hampered by weaker pent up demand, from @MartinBeraja and @ChristianKWolf https://t.co/7YLRuCjTZc https://t.co/zhGhSHrg8L

October 4th 2021

69 Retweets229 Likes

Florin Bilbiie @FlorinBilbiie

New Paper! (version …) HALT: Heterogeneous-Agent Liquidity Traps Looks at liquidity traps analytically, using the tractable (T)HANK model I developed in separate work; nests other analytical HANKs too. What does HA do to LT? 1/n drive.google.com/file/d/1vuE_Sn…

October 8th 2021

13 Retweets45 Likes

Laura Hospido @laura_hospido

3/6 Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the economy has close to perfect predictability of their income, while some face considerable uncertainty. Also, income risk inequality increases markedly in recessions.

October 6th 2021

7 Likes

Barbara Biasi @BarbaraBiasi

So happy that my paper “School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility” just got accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics! It's my 2nd-yr paper and 1st paper I ever worked during PhD. Its road was long and w/many obstacles, but in it I have learnt so much.1/8

October 4th 2021

64 Retweets772 Likes

Francis Wong @francisawong

A: No. We uncover a large racial/ethnic gap in housing returns that is driven entirely by foreclosures and short sales. Mechanism: minorities have less stable jobs ➡️minorities more likely to become financially distressed ➡️foreclosures destroy minority housing wealth.

October 4th 2021

1 Retweet4 Likes

Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality

🚨 PUBLIC GOOD ALERT 🚨 Measuring wait times for U.S. medical care is hard Data are private, limited to "secret shopper" surveys, or particular specialties UNTIL NOW. We've released 38M appt wait times for public use Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A 🧵on these data (1/n)Appointment wait time data for primary & specialty care in veterans health administration facilities vs. community medical centersThe datasets summarized in this article include more than 38 million appointment wait times that U.S. military veterans experienced when seeking medic…sciencedirect.com

September 20th 2021

70 Retweets296 Likes

Evan Munro @_evan_munro

Excited to share a new working paper with S. Wager and @xu_kuang on estimating treatment effects in a market equilibrium! The paper applies a mix of game theory, asymptotic theory, and experiment design to tackle a problem in causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2109.11647… (1/3).

October 6th 2021

3 Retweets15 Likes

More: pretrial system; Portugal child health; smart thermostats; union membership; causal effect of loans

Interesting discussions

Peter Ganong @p_ganong

Short advice thread for budding economists applying now for predocs TLDR: Being a predoc is/should be a major human capital investment that you and your PI will make together. Look for someone who will invest in you rather than simply someone who is a big name. cc @econ_ra

October 4th 2021

25 Retweets120 Likes

Rachael Meager @economeager

If you're on the tenure track or planning to be or hoping to be or even just thinking about being an academic or WHATEVER and you haven't read this, read it now The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Lifeblogs.scientificamerican.com

October 5th 2021

105 Retweets485 Likes

^“oldie but a goodie” but more importantly interesting discussions in the replies, eg

Calvo Fairy @FairyCalvo

@GonHuertas @sarahmrose @SorryToBeKurt Fwiw - a few times I have seen someone on Twitter (not this case in particular) complaining about “aggressive” referees on a paper I refereed. In every such case where I have personal knowledge, the authors have been wrong - blaming a serious problem with their paper on referees.

October 7th 2021

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Lukasz Rachel @LukaszRachel

Absolutely delighted to share the junior prize in macro from the University of Copenhagen and Danish National Bank with the fantastic @janeor_econ @RustamJamilov @LiraMota1 today. A short thread on the important contributions of my co-recipients 🧵🏅 1/12

October 8th 2021

4 Retweets73 Likes

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky

so basically census is discontinuing sub-county data cool cool cool

Upzone New Jersey 🏗️ @upzonenj

.@IPUMS sent this out and it's honestly insane what the @uscensusbureau is doing. Researchers/policy professionals/etc..., please respond to this. https://t.co/3cKKrZHQ9O https://t.co/j5M3o5fnbD

October 8th 2021

3 Retweets23 Likes