Another quiet blogging week for me, due to travel and the North American Regional Science conference in New Orleans (more on that in next week's post). However, I have been trying to keep up with research, and here's what caught my eye over the past week:
- Mello (open access) finds that winning the FIFA World Cup increases a country's year-over-year GDP growth by at least 0.48 percentage points in the two subsequent quarters
- Boyd et al. (open access) describe how an agent-based model could be used to evaluate the impact of minimum unit pricing of alcohol in Scotland (but they don't actually show the results of any such modelling, which is a bit disappointing)
- Singleton et al. (open access) find that a university located in a town that loses an English Premier League team (due to relegation to the Championship) suffers a reduction in undergraduate year-to-year admissions growth by 4–8 percent
- Ozkes et al. find that human players of the ultimatum game do not differentiate between human and algorithmic opponents, or between different types of algorithms, but they are more willing to forgo higher payoffs when the algorithm’s earnings benefit a human (this has interesting implications for how humans interact with AI)
- Gjerdseth (with ungated version here) finds that the destruction of ivory does not reduce elephant poaching rates, using CITES data from 2003 to 2019 (for more on this topic, see this post and the links at the end of it)
- Hagen-Zanker et al. (open access) use data from a large-scale survey conducted in 25 communities in ten countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and show that there is little consistency in the individual-level and community-level factors that are associated with migration intentions, although women are less likely to have migration intentions, while those with access to transnational social networks are more likely to have migration intentions
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