This was my first economics education paper, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed writing. If you are like me and cannot shake the thought of the impending teaching prep after the hols, this paper might be useful 🧵

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One more day to submit your papers! 👇 #economics #EconTwitter

NEW in NBER: Researchers examine US workers' employment and earnings before and after trade liberalization with China. By Justin R. Pierce (Federal Reserve), Peter K. Schott (Yale School of Management) & Cristina Tello-Trillo (Cristina Tello-Trillo U.S. Census Bureau): nber.org/papers/w32438

先日の日経学会で若杉隆平先生に共同論文の討論をしていただきました。大学運営でご多忙にもかかわらず、最近の研究動向も踏まえた現役バリバリの討論でした。以下は非常に重要なスライドです（若杉先生の許可を得ました）👇

Examining how costly port disruptions are: In a volatile environment, how frequent must macro shocks be to warrant investment? Congestion dynamics, targeted investment, and spillovers are crucial aspects, from Brancaccio, Myrto Kalouptsidi, and Papageorgiou nber.org/papers/w32503

Having more older workers in the workforce harms the career outcomes of younger workers❓ new evidence VoxEU 🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… CEPR Kellogg School EIEF - Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

I am now preparing some DiD lecture slides to give a talk at Amazon, and I have created this DiD Checklist. I am sharing them here in case some of you find it useful!

A 10 percent increase in a county's access to broadband internet leads to a 1 percent reduction in the number of suicides in a county, as well as improvements in mental and physical health, from Kathryn R. Johnson and Claudia Persico (@claudiapersico.bsky.social) nber.org/papers/w32517

On the topic of null results, this paper is absolutely fascinating. Holding all else constant (precision, p-values, etc.), studies are deemed much less publishable, *lower quality* and less important when results are null vs. significant 😳 CC: Carlisle Rainey

[Discussion Paper] DP2024-017 Margins, concentration, and the performance of firms in international trade: Evidence from Japanese customs data (Keiko Ito, Masahiro Endoh, Naoto Jinji, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Toshihiro Okubo, Akira Sasahara) ies.keio.ac.jp/en/publication… #IESKEIOEN

Happy to see our WP w Shogo Sakabe and David Weinstein (so many years in the making!) out. We examine the role of codifying knowledge in the spread of the Industrial Revolution. A little thread. 1/N

New climate-econ thinking VoxEU 👉 shifting attention to actual global temperature variation implies 👉 drastically larger impacts of climate change than conventional estimates. ➡️ Traditional estimates relate changes in a country’s output to changes in its local temperature ➡️

We welcome Ken Kikkawa, Ph.D. to our Network! Check out his personal website : sites.google.com/view/ayumukenk… !

Forthcoming short paper in EJ: ‘Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes’ by Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Rosario Crinò, Harald Fadinger, Gino Gancia doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Harald Fadinger Royal Economic Society Oxford Economics #EconTwitter

Pretty surprising fact!

New: "Fly the unfriendly skies: The role of transport costs in gravity models of trade" by Tibor Besedeš (Tibor Besedes - Georgia Tech School of Economics), Jing Chu (Wisconsin Economics) and Antu Panini Murshid. doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)