This week in research #3

After a weekend off last week for the holidays, here's a double dose of what caught my eye in research over the past two weeks:

• Lan, Clements, and Chai look at the research productivity of economics and finance PhD graduates at Australian universities (open access)
• Pugatch and Schroeder show that a message with basic information about the economics major can increase socioeconomic and racial diversity in economics (ungated earlier version here) - treat with caution, as it looks like a re-analysis of their data that found no effect on gender diversity (see here)
• Courty and Cisyk find that concussions are more likely to occur in NFL games that are higher stakes (open access)
• Hamermesh and Kosnik look at the factors associated with decreases in scholarly productivity at older ages
• Di Maio and Sciabolazza use data from 2013-2018 to look at how variations in the individual-level intensity of conflict exposure affect labour market outcomes for Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip
• Lange and Sommerfeld find that crime rates in Germany were not affected by refugee arrivals (ungated earlier version here)
• Cole and McCullough describe beer pricing across the California beer market (both wholesale and retail), and provide a clean dataset for others to use (open access)
• Truc et al. show that economics was and remains the least interdisciplinary of the social sciences, despite a turn toward interdisciplinarity in the 1990s (ungated earlier version here)
• Castro-Pires, Chade, and Swinkels disentangle adverse selection and moral hazard (ungated earlier version, interestingly not including Casto-Pires as a co-author, here) - seems heavily theoretical based on a quick read