Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 24, 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


^more from BREAD: adaptation to temperature/drought changes in Brazil

The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStud
Geography and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data https://t.co/otTQgOxbro Tasso Adamopoulos, York University and Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto and NBER #economics https://t.co/2QCB1kzYvS


More: publication bias in prejudice reduction experiments; UST valuations; why cement is expensive in Africa; low interest rates and market structure; comparing different estimates of top incomes; time-varying prices and electricity consumption; social capital and monetary policy shocks; classifying network mechanisms; MeToo triple diff; agriculture misallocation and land reform; reallocation and partner violence
Public goods




Asjad Naqvi @AsjadNaqvi
Dear all, a reminder that if you have Stata questions, especially regarding stuff covered in the Stata Guide, then post them on the Discord server where several people can respond: https://t.co/aU8558nnRb I get questions in the mail regularly and its hard to keep track!Interesting discussions

Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn
Hi Martin @MartinRavallion , I believe your tweet came with good intention like any advice from a good adviser. You have a large influence on my work and passion for dev econ, so I'm writing this response with all of the respect I have.
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie
Econtwitter friends, here’s something I respect about your field & would like to learn to emulate: At least from my outsider perspective, new methodological advances (or at least awareness of problems in old methods) seem to propagate through econ so fast! How do you do it?!
Garance Genicot @GGenicot
Wanted to share a great set of guidelines to referees adopted by Econometrica and QE: https://t.co/F0N813nTIV
^also: AP salaries by department for one university



Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana
NEW: @PrestonCooper93 @FREOPP's paper is FINALLY out!!! 1) Some degrees are worth millions, others have no net financial value https://t.co/5pVpN6OXXT 2) We Calculated Return On Investment For 30,000 Bachelor’s Degrees https://t.co/QeVWa3H0rm
^a lot of discussion on this topic this week, most of it bad, stay safe out there — comment, comment


^ICYMI: special edition of the newsletter on the Nobel last week
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