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Sascha O. Becker Profile picture
@essobecker
Aug 3, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Here are some of my favourite paper >titles< (thread).
Might add more in the future.

1/10

The Pope and the Price of Fish

Frederick W. Bell
The American Economic Review
Vol. 58, No. 5 (Dec., 1968), pp. 1346-1350
jstor.org/stable/1814033
2/10

De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum

George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker
The American Economic Review
Vol. 67, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 76-90
jstor.org/stable/1807222
3/10

Stars War in French Gastronomy

Olivier Gergaud, Valérie Smeets and Frédéric Warzynski
pure.au.dk/ws/files/10122…
4/10

Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back

Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 8, no. 1, January 2016, pp. 1-32
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
5/10

And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band - Second Job, Plight or Pleasure?

Rene Böheim, Mark Taylor, 2004
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1081, ftp://ftp.iza.org/dps/dp1081.pdf
@rboheim
6/10 I do like short titles. Here are some in Economics, from longer to shorter:

Veiling

Jean-Paul Carvalho
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 128, Issue 1, 1 February 2013, Pages 337–370,
doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
7/10

Gender

Muriel Niederle
Handbook of Experimental Economics, second edition, Eds. John Kagel and Alvin E. Roth, Princeton University Press, 2016, pp 481-553.
press.princeton.edu/titles/10874.h…
8/10

Shocks

John H.Cochrane
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy
Volume 41, December 1994, Pages 295-364
doi.org/10.1016/0167-2…
9/10

Dams

Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 122, Issue 2, 1 May 2007, Pages 601–646,
doi.org/10.1162/qjec.1…
10/10

q^5

Kewei Hou, Haitao Mo, Chen Xue, Lu Zhang
NBER Working Paper No. 24709
nber.org/papers/w24709
11/10: I nearly forgot:

Saints Marching In, 1590–2012

Robert J. Barro & Rachel M. McCleary

All qualities of a good title!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
12/N: New addition of a great and crisp title, from this week's NBER WP series:

"I Don't Know": nber.org/papers/w24994
13/N: "It's Raining Men! Hallelujah? The Long-Run Consequences of Male-Biased Sex Ratios"

doi.org/10.1093/restud…

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Oct 31, 2022
31 October. Reformation Day.

How did Martin Luther, a little-known professor at a provincial university (founded in 1502), manage to convince large parts of Germany (and Europe) to turn away from the Catholic Church? 🧵(1/N)
(2/N) In Becker/Hsiao/Pfaff/Rubin, we look at Luther's
a. correspondence
b. travels
c. his students at Wittenberg
>before< 1522 when the first city became Protestant, to describe his multiplex network(s).
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Luther's message could reach cities across the HRE either through his personal network(s) or by word-of-mouth through the trade network, or by a combination of both.
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Feb 23, 2021
New working paper

Persecution and Escape:
Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

with Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, and Fabian Waldinger

A short summary (1/N)

pdf: …-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/RePEc/ajr/sodw…
(2/N) Academics of Jewish origin in Weimar Germany were some of the greatest scientific luminaries of the first half of the 20th century.

For example, Nobel Laureates such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, and Max Born shaped modern physics.
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On April 7, 1933, the Nazi government started to dismiss academics of Jewish descent from their positions.

The University of Berlin at the time:
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Aug 5, 2020
Great initiative. I am First-Gen; attended same high school as @PMoserEcon in the deep countryside; my dad left school at age 14, my mum at age 16; dad worked for German rail; mother housewife; ended up at @UniBonn by accident because grandmother lived there (--> free housing).
Started studying maths and physics to become a teacher, following dad's advice: "become a teacher; public sector; safe job".
Met Mathias Hoffmann (@UZH_en) in maths lectures; his passion for Economics made me attend Econ lectures and that's how I ended up studying Economics.
Most important academic in my life was Reinhard Selten @NobelPrize @UniBonn. Amazing person. Humble. Wise. During UG studies wanted to do exchange year abroad, either @UCBerkeley or @ENSAEparis.
Selten: "Swim against the current, go to @ENSAEparis."
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Jul 17, 2020
(1/N) Pleasure to edit the brand-new

JDC UNHCR @Refugees @WorldBank Quarterly Digest on

"Long-Term Consequences of Forced Displacement"
doi.org/10.47053/jdc.0…

Part I: Intro

Part II: Summaries of papers by the amazing @zsarzin

highlighting three (selective) salient themes
(2/N)
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Theme 2: Agglomeration Effects and Infrastructure Investments

Theme 3: Impact on Refugee Preferences
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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
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American Economic Review, Volume 104, Issue 1 (2014), Pages 84–122
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Mar 12, 2020
German division and reunification and the “effects” of Communism

Some caveats from f/c JEP paper with @LukasMergele & Ludger Woessmann @ifo_Education

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

Issue #1: The GDR can be spotted before it even existed. (1/13)
(2/13) Further economic outcomes
(3/13) Political preferences
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Jan 28, 2020
Our @voxeu column on forthcoming AER paper

"Forced Migration and Human Capital:
Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers"

with I.Grosfeld, P.Grosjean, N.Voigtländer, @ezhuravskaya

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@voxeu @ezhuravskaya @MonashBusiness @cage_warwick At the end of WWII, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale forced migration. Poles from Kresy had to move westwards, mostly into formerly German Western Territories (WT), but also to Central Poland. Image
@voxeu @ezhuravskaya @MonashBusiness @cage_warwick The expellees from Kresy were forced to leave behind most of their family possessions and were only allowed to take a small share of their belongings to their new homes. Image
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