Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week (which was relatively quiet, as teaching prep has consumed much of my week):
- Abeliansky, Beulmann, and Prettner (open access) look at German Socioeconomic Panel data and find that higher robot intensity in a manufacturing sector is associated with deteriorating mental health among workers in that sector, and that the effect that is mainly driven by worries about job security and a lower sense of achievement on the job
- Blanchard, Bown, and Chor (with ungated earlier version here) find that the US-China trade war affected political outcomes in the US, with Republican House candidates losing support in counties more exposed to tariff retaliation, but receiving no appreciable gains in counties that received more direct US tariff protection
- Neumark (open access) reviews the effects of minimum wages on health outcomes and health-related behaviours, and shows somewhat mixed effects, but in their view strong enough to conclude that policy conclusions that minimum wages improve health are unwarranted
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