This week in research #85

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

• Cox and Figueroa (with ungated earlier version here) show that, contrary to previous work, the Spanish Inquisition did depress scientific research in Spain, using data on scholarly interactions among early modern Spanish book authors and data on affiliation with secular educational institutions
• Ugalde (with ungated earlier version here) looks at how high school students in North Carolina react to standardised test performance labels regarding their advanced math and English enrolment decisions, and find that female students labelled as not proficient in math are less likely to enrol in advanced math courses than their proficient-labelled peers, with similar (but smaller) effects in English