Thread by @pqblair

Get ready for an exciting quick round of economics research. Each day of this week, I will release a batch of Job Market Videos (JMVs) submitted by Econ students on the market. A JMVs is a 2 min elevator pitch summarizing the candidate's work. Enjoy!! #EconTwitter #JMV2020

1/N Cora (@coraebennett) @UTKnoxville investigates the effect of in-home capital inputs on academic achievement in primary school using an early childhood literacy program. Access to the program leads to null effects on standardized tests. #JMV2020

Title: It's Dolly's World, We're Just Reading in It: The Effects of an Early Childhood Literacy Program
Name: Cora Bennett
Field: Public and Education
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of Tennessee
Advisor(s): Don Bruce
Personal website: corabennett.org

2/N Marco (@mcsammon19) @NUEconomics develops a model to analyze how passive ownership affects investors’ incentives to acquire information. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness
Name: Marco Sammon
Field: Asset Pricing
Email: [e-mail]
School: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Advisor(s): Dimitris Papanikolaou
Personal website: marcosammon.com

3/N Megan (@econ_lang) @AreBerkeley improving access to credit and lowering transaction costs for prepaid solar causes bulk buyers to eliminate wasteful consumption, but liquidity constrained consumers increase demand by 88%! #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Consuming solar
Name: Megan Lang
Field: Development and energy/environment
Email: [e-mail]
School: UC Berkeley
Advisor(s): Jeremy Magruder
Personal website: meganlangecon.com

4/N Stephanie (@stephaniedcheng) @HarvardEcon finds short-term work reductions for childcare + profession requiring long hours for promotion = 10pp gender gap in academic tenure-track rates. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Careers Versus Children: How Childcare Affects the Academic Tenure-Track Gender Gap
Name: Stephanie Cheng
Field: Labor
Email: [e-mail]
School: Harvard University
Advisor(s): Lawrence Katz, Claudia Goldin, Amanda Pallais
Website: scholar.harvard.edu/sdcheng

5/N Mosab (@mosabi_1188) @uiowa finds that a rival's response to a competition shock depends on 1) the ex-ante level of competition 2) the firm's competitive position within that product market. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Competition Threats and Rival Innovation Responses: Evidence from Breakthrough Therapies
Name: Mosab Hammoudeh
Field: Innovation
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of Iowa
Advisor(s): Jon Garfinkel
Website: sites.google.com/view/mosab-ham…

*Get ready: Day #2 of Job Market Videos (JMVs).*

A JMVs is a 2 min elevator pitch summarizing the candidate's work. Enjoy and share with colleagues looking to hire and with students looking to learn more economics!! #EconTwitter #JMV2020

6/N Melissa (@MelissaK_Moore) @UVAEcon asks do STI avoidance behaviors affect birth rates? Finds that birth rates increase in response to AIDS risk. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Safer Sex? The Effect of AIDS Risk on Birth Rates
Name: Melissa Spencer
Field: Labor, Health, Applied Econometrics
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of Virginia
Advisor(s): Amalia Miller
Personal website: melissakspencer.com

7/N Elior (@EliorCohen10) @UCLAEconomics studies the effect of housing assistance on future homelessness, crime, employment, and health. Finds that housing is beneficial across all outcomes considered. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Housing Assistance on Recidivism to Homelessness, Economic, and Social Outcomes
Name: Elior Cohen
Field: Applied Micro
Email: [e-mail]
School: UCLA
Advisor(s): Moshe Buchinsky & Dora Costa
Website: sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/eli…

8/N Mengli @PennStateEcon studies impacts of nonbank and bank credit supply shocks on consumer durable expenditures by quantifying the contribution of these shocks to the collapse of the U.S. auto sales during the Great Recession. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Consumer Durables and the Distributional Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
Name: Mengli Sha
Field: Macroeconomics, Household Finance
Email: [e-mail]
School: Pennsylvania State University
Advisor(s): Russell Cooper, Mark Roberts
Website: menglisha.weebly.com

9/N Andrei (@andrei_mntn) @mcgillu find sorting along ability exacerbates educational outcome inequalities mainly through differences in access to good teachers, rather than through peer effects.#JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Student Sorting and Academic Performance
Name: Andrei Munteanu
Field: Economics of Education, Labor Economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: McGill University
Advisor(s): Fabian Lange
Personal website: andrei-munteanu.weebly.com

10/N Tiancheng (@tchen2020) @DukeEcon studies how info about market trends and competition affects firm decision-making and market outcomes, in a setting where an e-commerce platform collects and provides info to sellers. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: The Value of Market Intelligence: Evidence from Online Lipstick Sellers
Name: Tiancheng Chen
Field: Empirical industrial organization
Email: [e-mail]
School: Duke University
Advisor(s): Allan Collard-Wexler, Daniel Xu
Website: sites.duke.edu/tianchengchen/

*Get ready: Day #3 of Job Market Videos (JMVs).*

A JMVs is a 2 min elevator pitch summarizing the candidate's work. Enjoy and share with colleagues looking to hire and with students looking to learn more economics!! #EconTwitter #JMV2020

11/N Soomin @PennStateEcon studies which sellers & buyers trade on an endogenous network, finding that even though agents can increase their bargaining power through ties with multiple partners, an efficient trade network arises in equilibrium. #JMV2020

Title: Endogenous networks of trade
Name: Soomin Jung
Field: Game theory
Email: [e-mail]
School: Pennsylvania State University
Advisor(s): Kalyan Chatterjee
Personal website: sites.google.com/view/soominjun…

12/N Siddhartha (@SidBiswas_Econ) @UNC_econ examines how federal loans impact students’ investments in human capital and welfare, developing a model of student behavior to evaluate the effect of education subsidies on student welfare. #JMV2020

Title: Federal Student Loans, College Choice, and Student Welfare
Name: Siddhartha Biswas
Field: Applied microeconomics, Labor, Education, Health
Email: [e-mail]
School: UNC-Chapel Hill
Advisor(s): Donna Gilleskie
Website: sites.google.com/view/siddharth…

13/N Title: Federal Student Loans, College Choice, and Student Welfare
Name: Siddhartha Biswas
Field: Applied microeconomics, Labor, Education, Health
Email: [e-mail]
School: UNC-Chapel Hill
Advisor(s): Donna Gilleskie
Website: sites.google.com/view/siddharth…

14/N Ling (@Ling_Toulouse) @TSEinfo quantifies the effect of marriage prospects on migrant flows in China, asking: how do marriage responses affect the effectiveness of merit-based migration policies in controlling migrant flows? #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Marriage, Migration, and Migration Policy: Evidence from Hukou Reform in China
Name: Ling Zhou
Field: Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics
Email: [e-mail]
School: Toulouse School of Economics
Advisor(s): Paul Seabright

15/N Attila (@AttilaGyetvai) @DukeEcon uncovers occupational heterogeneity in labor market frictions, job amenities, and non-pecuniary switching costs with a structural model that links occupational mobility to wage inequality.#JMV2020

Title: Job Mobility Within and Across Occupations
Name: Attila Gyetvai
Field: Labor
Email: [e-mail]
School: Duke University
Advisor(s): Peter Arcidiacono
Personal website: attilagyetvai.com
Personal website: sites.google.com/view/ling-zhou

*Get ready: Day #4 of Job Market Videos (JMVs).*

A JMVs is a 2 min elevator pitch summarizing the candidate's work. Enjoy and share with colleagues looking to hire and with students looking to learn more economics!! #EconTwitter #JMV2020

16/N Peter (@PeterFPaz) @nyuniversity documents the relationship between monetary policy transmission and banks’ capitalization rates and proposes a theoretical mechanism that rationalizes the empirical findings. #JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: Bank Capitalization Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy
Name: Peter Paz
Field: Macroeconomics, Monetary, and Financial Economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: New Your University
Advisor(s): Jaroslav Borovicka, Simon Gilchrist, Ricardo Lagos
Website: peterpaz.com

17/N Andrey (@Anjjey) @UNC_econ asks: Is data harvesting by tech companies good or bad for consumers? Using Expedia data, he finds that it causes a price increase and leads to a 2% decline in consumer welfare on average. #JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: Consumer Data and Consumer Welfare
Name: Andrey Minaev
Field: Industrial Organization
Email: [e-mail]
School: UNC-Chapel Hill
Advisor(s): Brian McManus, Fei Li (@FeiLi_UNC)
Personal website: minaev.io

18/N Chenyu @ubcVSE estimates a generalized model of expectation formation using Recurrent Neural Networks finding households' expectations have non-linear and asymmetric responses to signals; and behave as adaptive learners. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Learning and Subjective Expectation Formation: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach
Name: Chenyu Hou
Field: Macro, Monetary Econ, Applied Econometrics
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of British Columbia
Advisor: Jesse Perla
Website: sevhou.github.io

19/N Vincent (@TENAVincent11) @TSEinfo builds a principal-agent model in continuous time to study the adoption of automation technology in asset management. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title:Will Asset Managers Survive to the Advent of Robots ? An Optimal Contracting Approach
Name: Vincent Tena
Field: Finance
Email: [e-mail]
School: Toulouse School of Economics
Advisor(s): Stéphane Villeneuve
Personal website: sites.google.com/view/tenavince…

20/N Sebastian (@SebastianLaumer) @Illinois_Alma shows that the fiscal multiplier does not depend on monetary policy. We find instead that the monetary policy rule itself changes quickly after a fiscal policy shock.#JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: Government Spending between Active and Passive Monetary Policy
Name: Sebastian Laumer
Field: Fiscal Policy, Bayesian and Time Series Econometrics
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Personal website: sites.google.com/view/sebastian…

*Get ready: Day #5 of Job Market Videos (JMVs).*

A JMVs is a 2 min elevator pitch summarizing the candidate's work. Enjoy and share with colleagues looking to hire and with students looking to learn more economics!! #EconTwitter #JMV2020

21/N John (@EconWestall) @NCState studies principal performance pay’s effects on principal labor markets, finding performance pay can push ineffective principals out and attract effective and experienced principals to harder-to-staff schools. #JMV2020

Title: The Labor Market Consequences of Principal Performance Pay
Name: John Westall
Field: Economics of Education, Labor
Email: [e-mail]
School: North Carolina State University
Advisor(s): Melinda Morrill
Personal website: johnwwestall.com

22/N Linh (@LinhNguyeEcon) @DukeEcon examines how individuals change their occupations to adjust their wages, levels of work effort, and number of work hours when facing changes in marginal tax rates. #JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: Wages, Work Hours, and Work Effort: How Tax Rates Affect Taxpayers’ Occupational Choice
Name: Linh Nguyen
Field: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: Duke University
Advisor(s): V. Joseph Hotz
Personal website: sites.duke.edu/linhnguyenecon/

23/N Jacquelyn (@jpavilon) @Georgetown finds worse protection status for refugees in Germany leads to worse labor market outcomes, less HC investment, increased benefits dependency & an increase in non-violent crime with no impact on natives or v. crime.

Title: Why Protection is Important: the Impact of Uncertainty on Refugee Integration
Name: Jacquelyn Pavilon
Field: Labor Economics (Migration)
Email: [e-mail]
School: Georgetown University
Advisor(s): Anna Maria Mayda
Personal website: sites.google.com/a/georgetown.e…

24/N Yu (@JasmineHao2) @ubcVSE shows that gradualism in the Chilean pharmaceutical industry is explained by the heterogeneous market characteristics as well as firms’ learning to coordinate. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Building up Trust in a Dynamic Game: A study on Collusive Price-fixing in the Chilean Pharmaceutical Retail Industry
Name: Yu Hao
Field: IO/ Metrics
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of British Columbia
Advisor(s): Hiroyuki Kasahara
Website: jasminehao.com

25/N Davide @ubcVSE examines the joint determination of family formation and location choices in an equilibrium framework, lending insights into the interplay between mobility and family formation.#JMV2020

Title: Marrying your job: matching and mobility with geographic heterogeneity
Name: Davide Alonzo
Field: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Family Economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of British Columbia
Advisor(s): Giovanni Gallipoli
davidealonzo.github.io

Day #6 of 2 min Job Market Videos of Job Market Papers

#EconTwitter in a short 10 minutes you can learn about the exciting job market papers #JMP of: @smittydoingecon, Reem Hashad @amina_enkhbold, @salman_econ, and @xiaoman_luo #JMV2020

26/N Chantal (@smittydoingecon) @HowardEcon investigates if the presence of military installations or DOD schools influence segregation levels in local school districts. #JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: Desegregation and Impact Aid: Does military presence influence school composition
Name: Chantal D. Smith
Field: Education & Labor
Email: [e-mail]
School: @HowardEcon
Advisor(s): @WSpriggs
Personal website: chantaldsmith.com/home

27/N Reem examines the effect of expanding SNAP's income eligibility threshold. Expanding eligibility increases participation by 5%, and does not create work disincentives, reduces financial hardships, but has no effect on food insecurity.#JMV2020

Title: Closing the Door to Food Assistance: The Effect of SNAP on Labor Supply, Food Insecurity, and Financial Hardships
Name: Reem Hashad
Field: Health, Public Policy, & Development
Email: [e-mail]
School: @UICEconomics
Advisor(s): Steven Rivkin
reemnabil3.wixsite.com/website

28/N Amina (@amina_enkhbold) studies the role of banking for the transmission of monetary policy to mortgage rates, developing a New Keynesian model with a monopolistically competitive banking sector. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Monetary Policy Transmission, Bank Market Power and Wholesale Funding Reliance
Name: Amina Enkhbold
Field: Macro-finance, monetary economics, banking
Email: [e-mail]
School: @econuoft
Personal website: sites.google.com/view/aminaenkh…

29/N Salman (@salman_econ) @UICEconomics studies the effects of expanding educational opportunities for girls in low education settings with significant gender inequality, finding evidence of educational benefits for girls and their children.#JMV2020

Title: Unmet Expectations: The Impacts of School Construction on Female Outcomes in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
Name: Salman Khan
Field: Development & Labor
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of Illinois, Chicago
Advisor(s): Benjamin Feigenberg
sal-khan.com

30/N Xiaoman (@xiaoman_luo) @UCDavisARE studies how parental migration affects left-behind children’s education in rural China through parental absence, investment, and study time, showing significant negative effects.#JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: How Does Parental Out-migration Affect Left-behind Children’s Schooling Outcomes?
Name: Xiaoman Luo
Field: Development economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of California, Davis
Advisor(s): Ashish Shenoy
Personal website: xiaomanluo.github.io

tagging @jhacova

*Jobs Alert* #EconTwitter

@OppInsights is hiring: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/9896 and academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/9898. @Northeastern urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https…

31/N Bobby (@BobbyWYChung) @UICEconomics studies an Illinois licensing reform mandating compliance training for real estate agents, providing evidence on the benefits, costs, and limitations of occupational licensing using better data and ID. #JMV2020

Title: Trade-offs of occupational licensing: Understanding the costs and potential benefits
Name: Bobby Chung
Field: Labor, Education, Health
Email: [e-mail]
Advisor(s): @pqblair
School: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
sites.google.com/view/bobbywchu…

32/N Anand @ubcVSE investigates how and how much households insure consumption against idiosyncratic wage shocks during recessions and expansions. #JMV2020 #econtwitter

Title: Insurance Cyclicality
Name: Anand Chopra
Field: Household Finance
Email: [e-mail]
School: University of British Columbia
Advisor(s): Michael Devereux and Viktoria Hnatkovska
Personal website: anandchopra.net

33/N Lucas (@lucasmariani89) @UNC_econ examines the impact of bank privatization on branches' behavior and economic performance. #JMV2020 #EconTwitter

Title: Government-owned Banks and Development: on Unintended Consequences of Bank Privatizations.
Name: Lucas Argentieri Mariani
Field: Macroeconomics, Finance, Development Economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: UNC-Chapel Hill
sites.google.com/view/lucas-arg…

34/N Yang analyzes how retailers choose different prices for homogeneous products—lower prices normally being linked with lower quality goods— finding price transparency can either increase or decrease social welfare.#JMV2020

Title: Price Transparency in Online Markets
Name: Yang Yang
Field: Industrial Organziation, Digital Economics
Email: [e-mail]
School: Toulouse School of Economics
Advisor(s): Daniel Garrett, Andrew Rhodes
Personal website: sites.google.com/view/yangyange…

Correction: @BobbyWYChung is at @LER_Illinois
@IL_Labor_Edu