Henrik Zaunbrecher

Working for the central planner. PhD in Economics from @umsbe. Views are my own or produced by a three-headed monkey.

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

It's an eternal struggle.
Media: "Economists do X but should do Y"
Econ: "But we do a lot of Y"
Media: "But you fail to communicate it"
Econ:"Here are 10 recent articles on Y that you could report on"
Media:"A new study on X has shown ..."
Econ:"😩" https://t.co/vL51UUYxHh

[Kai Gehring @KaiGehring1]

The Economist knows and cares too little about what academic economists really do. Reporting only selectively and then complaining about it is unsound circular reasoning https://t.co/N4lGXQ3eEP

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@BachmannRudi Wird ja auch bei Letta und Draghi angerissen. Aber in Europa schlackern doch den meisten Bürgern die Ohren, wenn sie Risikokapital und Rente in einem Satz hören.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Give people housing and they'll have kids!

Obtaining housing increases the average probability of having a child by 3.8% and the number of children by 3.2%.

For 20 to 25-year-olds, the corresponding effects are 32% and 33%.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

It's almost as if economics....actually works.

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

A spicy datacolada post on the challenge of evaluating papers where the data are proprietary and experiments are difficult to replicate.

My main thought: re-analysis like this is vastly under-supplied.

Link and some thoughts in thread. 1/

[Kirill Borusyak @borusyak]

A few more words about the "Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" that we just posted (w/ @instrumenthull, @XJaravel)

We tried to make it useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and those who didn't even know they were users (1/N)

[Lina Lozano @Lina_loz]

On the #EconJobMarket !

In my JMP, I show that women disproportionately take blame for team failures and claim less credit for successes, even after accounting for performance, self-evaluations, and promotion motives.

More details about it here :) https://t.co/FkpIFksyGc

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@BachmannRudi Den Vorwurf kann man allen Bundestagsparteien außer den Grünen machen. Die Pipeline wurde ja auch letztendlich nicht von deutscher Seite aus dichtgedreht ...

[Dominika Langenmayr @D_Langenmayr]

A while ago I refereed a paper with a pre-registered RCT for a top 5 journal. I checked the pre-registration, and the paper didn't do what the pre-registration said it would do. I was the only referee (out of four) who had checked (out who included this issue in their report).

[Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager]

do not be fooled by the classic polish self-deprecation this is a great paper and step towards peace in the worm wars. check this out. peace in our time!!

[Itai Sher @itaisher]

Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities

With @AlexBartik and @DMilo75, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:

[Damon Jones @nomadj1s]

This is an impressive study on an important policy topic: guaranteed income!

I’m seeing many people interpret the results as “negative” or “bad” from an *economic* policy standpoint

I don’t think those conclusions are warranted using economic arguments

🧵

[Eva Vivalt @evavivalt]

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control.

These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@besttrousers @economeager @rationalprag @BriannaWu That has to be worth at least 2 Econometricas

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@andreamatranga Didn’t they also produce garum on semi-industrial scale?

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Every novel IV paper

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@MrTate @Noahpinion It’s not uncommon for restaurants in Japan to not take reservations from foreigners precisely because they cannot make the customers understand the dishes due to the language barrier.

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@paulgp @economeager Reminds me of the after-work drinks during my finance internships "After-work? I'm just here for networking and will head straight back to the office afterwards. "

[Henrik Zaunbrecher @HWFencebreaker]

@ash_craig To be fair: The same holds for most of Europe outside of France & Italy

[Ben Greiner @bgreiner_tweets]

After 4 years and ~1000 replication packages, I am stepping down this month as Code/Data Editor at Management Science. It's about time, but also the role/process has become untenable. Management Science is at a critical turning point here. A longer thread. 1/17