This week in research #32

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:

• Hess (with ungated earlier version here) finds that, after the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs (which allowed states to restrict abortion access), medical schools in states with abortion bans saw a 0.65% increase in the 2022 share of women’s applications and a 1.17% increase in the 2023 share, plausibly driven by applicants interested in an OB/GYN specialty
• Kahane finds that NHL players are willing to sacrifice earnings to play on a higher quality team, and this tradeoff increases with player age
• Burdett et al. (open access) investigate workers' self-reported productivity during COVID-19, and find that workers report being at least as productive as before the pandemic, but with substantial heterogeneity (unsurprisingly, there are negative impacts for female parents)

And from my own research:

• With Jacques Poot, our new article (open access) in the journal Population Research and Policy Review investigates the use of spatial interaction models (a generalisation of gravity models) for forecasting internal migration flows in New Zealand, showing that these models may be useful for population projections (this work builds on a long stream of research by Jacques and I in this area)