Seth Neller

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee and @UTBoydCenter | Research: Health and Public Econ

[NBER @nberpubs]

What drives veterans' choice between VA and private care? 50–60 percent of geographic variation reflects individual factors, not place. Distance and wait times explain only a small share, from Marika Cabral, David C. Chan Jr, and @sethneller https://t.co/RZLYh8B7eq

[Maria Ventura @mariaventura05]

Hey #EconTwitter! I am beyond excited to share my JMP
🚨 "Following in the family footsteps: Incidence and returns of occupational persistence" 🚨

Do children gain from following their parents in the same occupations?👨‍👩‍👧

Here is a short thread to find out!🧵

[Asjad Naqvi @AsjadNaqvi]

#Stata #spider v1.3 is now out:
- completely reworked for long data support
- the package is much faster
- label rotation options
- better legend control

Examples + installation on #GitHub. Up soon on #SSC 👇
https://t.co/dLW6a34uTn

[Michael Kofoed @mikekofoed]

So thrilled to see this paper accepted at AER: Insights, a top journal in my field. During the Fall of 2020, @WestPointSOSH allowed my team to use the random assignment of cadets to a F2F or online class to study the effects of remote learning during COVID.

[Maggie Shi @maggieshi311]

Thrilled to see this out soon in the @QJEHarvard!

[Orgül Öztürk @orgul_ozturk]

We are hiring. This is a great place to work.

[Carolina Arteaga @caroartc]

🚨New paper alert! 🚨
Democracy and the Opioid Epidemic
w/ @Viquibarone 👉https://t.co/jkfTq6v9al We find that the opioid epidemic substantially increased the Republican vote share and conservative views, and polarized communities. 1/12

[Kevin Rinz @kevinrinz]

Today, @ipogadog, @wesyin, Jeff Zhang & I are launching Briefing Book, a newsletter about economic policy. We’re ex-CEA senior economists, loved the work, and wanted to keep doing it. Now we’re sending you the memos we used to send the Chair. Check it out! https://t.co/u11mY3JhRW

[Melissa Dell @MelissaLDell]

I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13)
Paper: https://t.co/15nQ1gZ9E5
Dataset: https://t.co/LhCtd9XsXZ

[María Padilla Romo @MaraPadillaR]

Excited to share our paper with @Eunsik_Chang just published at the Journal of Labor Economics!

Check it out: https://t.co/9RE2KucfXG

Exposure to violent crime in the weeks prior to a high school admission exam creates gender disparities in test scores and high sch placement.

[Jessica H. Brown @JHB_econ]

🚨🚨New Paper Alert!🚨🚨

We study how the minimum wage affects the child care sector - earnings and employment, yes, but also other firm-level margins of adjustment, service quality, and consumer satisfaction. (joint with @ChrisMHerbst)

[Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82]

New Paper Alert 🚨

We estimate the returns to IRS tax audits across the income distribution. We find $1 of IRS spending on audits of top earners delivers more than $12 of tax revenue. Along the way, we provide new evidence of the strong specific deterrence effects of audits. 1/:

[Michael Kofoed @mikekofoed]

🚨🚨New Paper 🚨🚨
@toddrjones and I have a new @iza_bonn paper out today on peer effects on #FirstGen college students. #FirstGen students have the most to gain from college but yet drop out at higher rates and earn lower grades. https://t.co/yt767b4W0x

[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

One day I will write something longer about the value of qualitative research methods for quantitative (esp. applied micro) researchers. But 👇 is a short thread

TLDR: Qual methods super useful even if you never present/analyze qual data in published work

#ResearchMethods

[Reclaim The Records @ReclaimTheRecs]

And now, here's yet another purposely-kinda-vague slice of life report from FOIA-land.

(vague, b/c the legal stuff is still ongoing, takes months)

We're in the process of getting a certain database extract from a big federal agency. This is data that has never been publicly...

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

(In case it wasn't obvious:) I just updated this spreadsheet of crime/CJ-related papers in top econ journals:

https://t.co/5mWRgslABi

[Jimbo Brand @jamesbrandecon]

Very excited to give this talk! Check out the stream or the recording to see how we think we can use LLMs for market research and what I think are the first estimates of customer preferences coming purely from GPT-3.

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration" by Samuel Arenberg, Seth Neller, and Sam Stripling. https://t.co/5u0DARS4Un

[Jimbo Brand @jamesbrandecon]

🚨🚨New working paper! 🚨🚨
@IsraeliAyelet, @NgweDonald and I have a new paper out which uses GPT-3 to estimate consumer preferences. We show that GPT-3's responses to conjoint-like questions are internally consistent, consistent with econ theory, and of reasonable magnitudes! 1/

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

Today the @WhiteHouseCEA released the 2023 Economic Report of the President, including the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. There's a lot of great content and interesting analysis, and I have a particular fondness for Chapter 4. 1/3

https://t.co/TRGSZyav09