This week in research #47

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

• Geerling, Mateer, and Wooten (open access working paper) identify a group of “rising stars” in the economics teaching field (where I'm ranked #27 in the world according to their ranking, and #5 outside of the US)
• Li and Xia find that students just above a letter-grade cutoff in an introductory course are 3.6% more likely to major in the same field as that course, using data from the National University of Singapore
• Divle, Ertac and Gumren find in an online experiment that although working in a team is more profitable and participants also expect this, a large proportion shy away from teamwork, and that research participants primed with COVID-19 are less likely to self-select into teamwork
• Dickinson and Waddell find, using data from GitHub, that the transition to Daylight Saving Time reduces worker activity, but that the effects are relatively short-lived, although when using more detailed hourly data losses appear in the early working hours of work days into a second week following the initiation of Daylight Saving Time
• Naidenova et al. look at twelve years of data from professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive games and find that there is a substantial decrease in the performance of esports players during overtime, which they attribute to 'choking under pressure', although the impact is less in online competitions compared to live events
• Martínez-Alfaro, Silverio-Murillo, and Balmori-de-la-Miyar (open access) find in an audit study that job applications from transgender candidates received 36% fewer positive responses than those from cisgender candidates in Mexico