With my marking out of the way and provisional grades released to students, I can turn my attention to research once again. Sadly, it was a very quiet week, but here's what caught my eye in research:
- Charmetant, Casara, and Arvaniti (open access) document the extent of treatment of climate change in introductory economics textbooks (and the CORE text The Economy, which I use in ECONS101, looks pretty good overall, ranking top among US textbooks, and second overall)
- Miller, Shane, and Snipp (open access working paper) look at the impact of the 1887 Dawes Act in the US (which made Native Americans citizens of the United States with individually-titled plots of land rather than members of collective tribes with communal land), and find that it increased various measures of Native American child and adult mortality from nearly 20% to as much as one third (implying a decline in life expectancy at birth of about 20%)
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