Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Panos and Wright (open access) examine the gender gap in financial understanding amongst 11-18 year-olds in Scotland, and find that most of the gender gap is explained by male students being more likely to study economics, finance, or business studies
- Ahsan, Panza, and Song (with ungated earlier version here) find that a one-standard-deviation increase in Atlantic trade resulted in a 0.157-standard-deviation decrease in intra-European conflict onset, using data covering the period from 1640 to 1896
- Baselgia and Martınez (open access) find that when some Swiss cantons repealed a controversial tax policy that taxed wealthy foreigners based on their living expenses, their stock of super-rich foreigners dropped by 43% as a consequence (no surprises, the wealthy are quite mobile)
- Einav, Klopack, and Mahoney (with ungated earlier version here) look at consumers who continue to pay for subscriptions they no longer value, and show that cancellation frictions (such as switching costs) roughly double seller revenues on average, holding fixed initial subscribers
- Nicolli, Gilli, and Vona (open access) augment the standard Environmental Kuznets Curve equation with the interaction between income per capita and the Gini coefficient, and find that reducing inequality is beneficial for the environment, especially for rich countries
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