This week in research #8

I've been busy again this week, which is why this post is coming a day later than usual. Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:

• Ivandić et al. (open access) look at the dynamics of domestic abuse calls around the time of football matches in Manchester, and find a decrease in incidents during the two-hour duration of the game (football and domestic violence are substitutes), but an increase after the game, which peaks ten hours later
• Barrington-Leigh (open access) shows that research participants with lower education levels are more likely than those with more education to ignore points on a Likert scale (such as for measuring subjective wellbeing or happiness), and reduce their choices to top, middle, and bottom, and then proposes a solution to this problem (relates to other problems with subjective wellbeing - see here, and in the links at the end of that post)
• Bursztyn et al. (with ungated earlier version here) show that decades-long exposure to immigrant groups (focusing on Arab Muslims in the US) decreases explicit and implicit prejudice, among other positive outcomes
• Cabral and Dillender (with ungated earlier version here) find that, compared to male patients, female patients randomly assigned to a female doctor rather than a male doctor are 5.2 percent more likely to be evaluated as disabled and receive 8.6 percent more subsequent cash benefits on average

And another paper from my own research:

• Again with a large number of co-authors led by John Oetzel, our new article (open access) in the journal BMC Geriatrics reports on a strengths-based programme to improve health among kaumātua (Māori elders), and finds that the programme was both effective in improving health-related quality of life, and cost effective at doing so