Japan’s massive public investments in codifying technical knowledge explain why it was unique among non-Western countries in industrializing in the 19th and early 20th centuries, from @juhreka13, Shogo Sakabe, and @deweinstein nber.org/papers/w32667
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- When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community, from @jessiehandbury and Sarah Moshary nber.org/papers/w29384
- Teen suicides plummeted in March '20, when schools shut due to COVID. Returning from online to in-person schooling was associated with a 12-18% increase in teen suicides, from @benconomics @SDSUCHEPS and Schaller nber.org/papers/w30795
- Randomized control trials (RCT) have no special standing among econometric methods. They do not simplify inference, nor can an RCT establish causality. They often carry serious and inadequately addressed ethical issues, from Angus Deaton nber.org/papers/w27600
- Causal effects of places on earnings are large. Worker skills are higher in high-wage places. Industry composition explains little of the variation in place effects, from David Card, @rothstein_jesse, and @MoisesYi3 nber.org/papers/w31587
- In U.S. Presidential races, the popular-vote winner will lose 40% of elections decided by 2 million votes or less. Electoral College "inversions" have been likely since the 1800s, from @MikeGeruso, Dean Spears, and Ishaana Talesara nber.org/papers/w26247
- NAFTA (signed by Bill Clinton) led to large job losses in historically low-income US counties which historically voted Democratic but began to move toward the GOP after NAFTA, from Jiwon Choi, @ikuziemko, Ebonya L. Washington, and Gavin Wright nber.org/papers/w29525
- 2020 NBER Summer Institute, July 6-25, will be live-streamed on the NBER's YouTube channel. Meeting schedule here conference.nber.org/confer/2020/SI… URLs for the streams are assigned at the start of each meeting, and will be posted as soon as they are available here conference.nber.org/confer/2020SI_…
- Economics undergraduate students are more gender-biased than those in other fields. The gap becomes larger with increased exposure to economics training, especially for male students, from Valentina A. Paredes, @DanielePaserman, and @franciscopino nber.org/papers/w27070
- An evaluation of claims about large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI finds a 0.66 percent increase in total factor productivity over 10 years, from @DrDaronAcemoglu nber.org/papers/w32487
- A review of deep learning for economists that introduces foundational models, covers various applications, and provides a website with technical details, software, and demo notebooks, from Melissa Dell nber.org/papers/w32768
- In Taiwan, disadvantaged minorities lower student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement in classrooms to which they are randomly assigned, and this lowers student test scores, from @adegendre, @chriskarbownik, @nsalamancaa, and @yveszenou1 nber.org/papers/w32429
- Discussing the literature that has developed in recent years providing evidence on how industrial policies work, from @juhreka13, @straightedge, and @rodrikdani, nber.org/papers/w31538
- A review of recent research on spatial economics, from @ReddingEcon nber.org/papers/w33125
