This week in research #100

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

• Barr and Castleman (with ungated earlier version here) demonstrate that intensive advising during high school and college significantly increases bachelor’s degree attainment among lower-income students, primarily driven by improvements in initial enrolment quality (enrolling in a four-year programme rather than a two-year programme)
• Nyarko and Pozen (open access) find that joining Twitter increases citation counts by an average of 22% per year and improves article placements by up to 10 ranks for law professors, relative to a synthetic control group
• Matusiewicz finds, using data on European countries, that while GDP per capita correlates positively with the human development index and income equality, it does not guarantee higher life satisfaction
• Branilović and Rutar (open access) find, using data from 2011 to 2022, that increases in both neoliberalism and globalization are associated with increases in democracy, and that it is freedom of international trade, modesty of regulation, legal system and property rights, and social globalisation that drive the relationship at the aggregate level