Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Barron et al. (open access) look at the impact of alcohol prohibition during Covid in South Africa, and find that it reduced injury-induced mortality by at least 14%
- Lapré and Palazzolo (open access) find that, over the period 2002–2021, NFL teams that made better trades (trading less valuable for more valuable picks) had a higher probability of reaching the playoffs
- Petrusevich finds that an intervention in Russia that restricted the hours when alcohol sales were allowed improved children’s physical health, with younger children being more affected
- Vasileiou et al. (open access) find that positive feelings are associated with wine and beer consumption, while negative feelings relate to spirits consumption, in Italy
- Burgi and Gorgulu (open access) show that, for a measure of spatial population concentration, the largest relationship with economic growth is found for a radius of 25 kilometres, implying that regional policies such as infrastructure projects that influence population density should strategically target areas based on a 25km radius
- Lanzara et al. (with ungated earlier version here) find that, over the period from 1948 to 1992, the identity of the bishop in office explains a significant amount of the variation in the vote share for the Christian Democracy party in Italy, and that the bishop's political culture, and their interaction with the population matter most for this
Finally, Statistics NZ has released a new paper investigating the technical feasibility of transforming the New Zealand census to a model based primarily on administrative (admin) data supported by surveys. This will feed into one of the big debates heading towards the 2028 Census. This quote in particular is going to get a lot of population and other social science researchers quite worried: "It indicates Stats NZ’s readiness to shift towards an admin-data-first-based approach". There will be more to come on this.
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