Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Aina, Aktaş, and Casalone (open access) look at how the allocation of workload across university courses affects students’ outcomes, finding that reducing the number of courses in a degree, while keeping the total course work unchanged, strongly reduces students’ performance and increases first-year dropout rates, and that the effects are larger for students from less affluent families
- Omberg (with ungated earlier version here) finds that Uber’s arrival to a US city resulted in decline in the unemployment rate by between a fifth and a half of a percentage point
- Taylor and Livingston (open access) show that the minimum unit price for alcohol in Northern Territory implemented in 2018 impacted very few alcohol transactions, as it was set very low (AU$1.30 per 10g of alcohol)
- Huckle, Moewaka Barnes, and Romeo (open access) find that 17 percent of substantiated child maltreatment among Māori from 2000 to 2017 could be attributed to parental hazardous alcohol consumption
- Mikkelsen and Peter (open access) examine a Swedish parental leave reform in 1995 that reserved one month of leave for fathers, and find that the reform increases the probability of doing a maths-intensive programme in upper secondary education among girls whose father was otherwise reluctant to take leave, with no effect on boys
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