This week in research #43

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

• Müller and Watson (with ungated earlier version here) investigate the consequences of strong spatial dependence in economic variables, applying what are effectively time series methods to accounting for spatial autocorrelation (quite a technical paper, but of interest to those doing spatial econometrics)
• Joshanloo (with ungated version here) shows that zodiac birth signs are unrelated to subjective wellbeing (a result that shouldn't need to be investigated, surely?)
• Kampanelis and Elizalde (open access) find that the number of lynchings between 1882 and 1929 (at the county level) is associated with intergenerational upward economic mobility among African American men (measured in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries)
• Lee, Liu, and Yu (with ungated earlier version here) find that Facebook usage significantly increased the frequency with which users experienced negative emotions, including envy, feelings of inferiority, and depression, using data from Taiwan in 2017