Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Kawada, Nakamura, and Okamoto propose a new measure of population ageing based on the ‘‘thickness" of the working-age population (I'm disappointed that they didn't reference my measure of structural ageing)
- Meyer et al. (open access) review the economics literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on income inequality
And the latest paper from my own research (or, more accurately, these are the second and third papers from the thesis research of my PhD student Jayani Wijesinghe, on which I am a co-author along with Susan Olivia and Les Oxley):
- This new working paper investigates the impact of homicide on state-level life expectancy and lifespan inequality in the US, as well as the factors associated with life expectancy loss and lifespan inequality change due to homicide, and finds that, among other things, corrections and judicial spending influence both life expectancy and lifespan inequality, while police and health spending mitigate lifespan inequality, and welfare expenditures correlate with higher lifespan inequality
- This new working paper compares the impacts of three pandemics on life expectancy and lifespan inequality - (1) the 1918 influenza pandemic; (2) the HIV/AIDS pandemic; and (3) the COVID-19 pandemic - and explores the similarities and differences in their impacts
Also new from the Waikato working papers series:
- Dorner et al. test consumers' willingness to engage with a Digital Product Passport (DPP), a way of collecting and sharing a product’s information throughout its lifecycle, which is part of the EU's new circular economy action plan, and find that the DPP may not lead to further shifts in environmental orientation and behaviour
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