This week in research #44

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

• Hirschberg and Lye (open access) provide suggested guidelines for economists for writing computer code
• Allen (open access) investigates the causes and the consequences of the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East (and if you're into big questions, those are really big questions)
• Ferguson et al. (with ungated version here) provide a new meta-analysis of 46 studies on the correlation between time spent on social media and adolescent mental health, finding that there is little support for claims of harmful effects