This week in research #91

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

• Ajzenman, Ferman, and Sant’Anna (with ungated earlier version here) investigate discrimination in #EconTwitter, finding that follow-back rates by users in #EconTwitter were 12 percent higher when followed by White students compared to Black students, 21 percent higher for students from top-ranked universities compared to those from lower-ranked institutions, and 25 percent higher for female compared to male students
• Hwang, Jakob, and Squires (with ungated earlier version here) find, using US genealogical data on couples married over a century ago, that children whose parents were first cousins experience a more than a two-year reduction in age-five life expectancy
• Daher et al. (with ungated earlier version here) find that Saudi women who receive driver training are 41 percent more likely to be employed and yet 19 percent less likely to be able to make purchases without family permission
• Loewenstein and Wojtowicz (with ungated earlier version here) summarise the research on the economics of attention
• Strehl-Pessina, Bergolo, and Leites (with ungated earlier version here) find a marked decline in support for redistribution among the top 1% of the income distribution in Uruguay, and that support for redistribution is not solely explained by current income or demographics
• Fu, Zhang, and Zhong propose two novel scoring rules for multiple-choice questions based on the test-takers’ propensity to hedge across possible answers
• Cai, Cheng, and Jiao find that students in classrooms with greater economic inequality tend to have lower test scores and cognitive outcomes, and that the effects are especially significant among students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, male students, and those preparing for high-stakes examinations
• Livermore and Major (with ungated earlier version here) examine the low levels of participation and diversity in economics at Australia's high schools, and find that while students typically have positive perceptions of economics as a field, the perceptions of economics as a subject of study tend to be negative (could be relevant to New Zealand as well)
• Sentana conducts a (quasi) field experiment in the soccer field with junior players, and finds that results are consistent with mixed strategy, even though the least experienced goalkeepers tend to replicate each other’s actions
• Masso et al. (with ungated earlier version here) find that male academics obtain higher returns than women academics from the same outside option during salary negotiations, using data from the University of Tartu in Estonia
• Adler et al. (open access) find that students who are the first in their family to attend university sort less into study fields based on their earnings expectations, which leads to sizable gaps in expected earnings