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Hooray for my Howard University Howard University College of Arts and Sciences Howard Economics colleague @AndriaSmythe

Join our faculty member Alex Henke as he discusses his co-authored work w/ @Rebecca_L_Hsu on domestic violence and sheltering in place Placekey on Thursday June 3rd placekey.commsor.com/e/the-effect-o… #EconTwitter

📢📢 Still a few more hours to finish your applications! 📢📢 Looking forward to a great cohort of American Economic Association Summer Training Program Scholars 🤗 Summer 2022 economics.howard.edu/aeasp #econtwitter #aeasp #economics

Congrats to my colleague Alex Henke who just publishes his joint paper with Dr. Khalil and Dr. Lawarree on Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 👏👏👏

I have a new paper out in the Journal of Econometric Methods: Linear Rescaling to Accurately Interpret Logarithms Do you use logarithms in statistical analysis? And interpret them as proportional increases? Are they *natural* logarithms? If so... why? degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

The researchers used mobile device tracking data to verify that people were at home all day. Dr. Alex Henke - Alex Henke then crossed that information with local police reports of domestic violence ow.ly/GotB50JctEI

I'm happy to announce a recent publication with Rebecca Hsu accepted earlier this summer in the Journal of Economic Studies entitled "CARES and Crime" doi.org/10.1108/JES-02… 1/5

The CARES Act was signed into law in late March of 2020, and part of that was the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program that added $600/week in UI compensation. 2/5

States took different amounts of time to implement this policy, which allows us to use a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) design to see how it affected reports of crime in major cities with open police data. 3/5

We estimate that overall violent and property crime dropped roughly 20% due to FPUC's implementation, and this may be a lower bound estimate due to issues of anticipation. (Yes, we avoid TWFE and use a modern estimator, specifically BJS 2021.) 4/5

We also find a substantial decrease in homicides. Even though we can (at best) estimate only very short run effects with this method, we still find that these effects pay for a substantial portion of increased UI payments. 5/5

Announcement and invitation! A new project that aims to improve the quality of research in applied microeconomics by examining researcher choices. I am hoping to recruit up to *200 researchers* of all kinds (with pay) and hope you will join me! (Thread) nickch-k.github.io/ManyEconomists/

Excited to see our new paper "Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence" out as NBER Working Paper today (joint work with @sofiafamaral, Gordon B. Dahl, Timo Hener and Helmut Rainer) 👇 nber.org/papers/w30855?…

Rebecca Hsu (Rebecca Hsu) will use eviction filing data from Legal Services Corp. to estimate the impact of implementing state-level eviction moratoria on eviction filings for renters of different races. russellsage.org/awarded-projec…

Tenured 🙌🏾

Excited to learn that my and Rebecca Hsu's paper on unemployment insurance generosity and intimate partner violence was just conditionally accepted at the Review of Economics of the Household #REHO. Below is a short thread describing the results. 1/6

shouting out extracttable.com, a service that is *very good* at getting data from table images, PDF screenshots etc.. Have tried many services like this (incl GPT) and they've all been more error-prone. Also very cheap (2 free a day, or like $2 for 50 tables, no sub fee)

🚨Public good alert! 🚨#EconTwitter The public-use NUMIDENT is now available for download with nearly 50 million death records and 25 million claims records (1936-2007)! Link: doi.org/10.3886/E20720… 🧵1/N

Glad to see our paper with Tomer Stern, "Women's Participation in the Arab Spring Protests and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Egypt," came out in a special issue on VAW, Conflicts, and Disasters Feminist Economics: tandfonline.com/eprint/E8QZUJ2… #econtwitter NU Economics