Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Delaney and Devereux (open access) find systematic and substantial differences by gender in choice of graduate field in Ireland, even when taking account of the exact undergraduate programme attended, with female graduates less likely to do graduate study in STEM fields and more likely to enter teaching and health programmes
- Wang and Houser (with ungated earlier version here) conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment at bars and barbecue restaurants, where they got research participants to play a prisoners' dilemma game, and find that intoxication promotes promise-making but does not impact the rate at which promises are broken among males, but intoxication doesn't affect promise-making or promise-breaking among females
- Brown et al. (with ungated version here) find that narrowly winning a state legislature election (in the US) doubles the probability that a female politician will later compete for a higher-level legislative seat compared to narrowly elected male politicians, meaning that the pathway from local to higher-level political offices functions at least as effectively for women as for men
- Zhang and Xu find that, among rural children in China, cognitive scores at ages 10-15 are significantly improved by full television exposure in early childhood (ages 0-5)
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