Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Charness and Rodriguez-Lara (open access) use a simple experiment to show that people are more likely to lie when they disclose non-personal information (a number they thought of) compared with personal information (the last digit of their birth year)
- Koivuranta, Korhonen, and Lehto (open access) find using Finnish data that PM2.5 ambient air pollution reduces student exam performance in mathematical but not in verbal subjects
- Rodriguez et al. look at the abstracts of top five economics journals between 2000–2019, and find that abstracts with a higher proportion of women co-authors are more readable (which might sound like a good thing, but actually just reiterates earlier findings that female economists are held to a higher standard in publications than their male counterparts - see here)
- Lee, Lee, and Miyamoto (with ungated earlier version here) find a negative association between inflation and the speed of ageing for both Japan and the US
- Alsultan, Kourtis, and Markellos (open access) investigate the CryptoPunks NFT art collection, and find that buyers prefer NFTs with higher levels of colourfulness and texture complexity and lower levels of saturation and brightness
Finally, you can now watch the recordings of sessions from the New Zealand Economics Forum. The Day One video is here, with the tax session here. And the Day Two video is here. The session I presented in (as part of a panel discussing social investment) is on Day One, starting at 4:55:00 or thereabouts. Maria English (ImpactLab) and Merepeka Raukawa-Tait (Whānau Ora) were the true stars of that session though!
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