Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Ciancio et al. (open access) study the impact of a randomised information intervention on risky sex in Malawi, and find that treated individuals are less likely to engage in risky sexual practices one year after the intervention (not dissimilar to this research)
- Litina and Fernández show that societies more exposed to solar eclipses grew more, and that solar eclipses are associated with deeper and more intricate thinking among peoples in societies more exposed, and that total solar eclipses increase curiosity both at the social and individual levels
Finally, in very exciting news, the first issue of Australasian Journal of Regional Studies (AJRS) with myself as Managing Editor has just been published (although it is backdated to December 2023, due to some unexpected delays in getting the articles online). This issue has four papers, as well as my editorial:
- Cochrane, Poot, and Roskruge (open access) look at the uptake of social security benefits in New Zealand territorial authorities after the Global Financial Crisis and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and show that the most resilient territorial authorities had a low unemployment rate and a large public sector prior to the shock (this paper won the John Dickinson Memorial Award for the best paper published in AJRS in 2023)
- Ho (open access) looks at migration and rural-urban wage differentials in Australia, and finds that high wage growth in the year following rural-urban migration is most likely explained by the migrant taking jobs that below their ability upon arrival
- Vidyattama, Yudhistira, and Husna (open access) explore descriptively the impact of COVID-19 on the economies of provinces in Eastern Indonesia, and how the provincial governments responded
- Parkin and Hardcastle (open access) look at population trends and policy in South Australia's Limestone Coast region, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
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