This week in research #103

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week (clearly a very quiet week!):

• Jurkat, Klump, and Schneider (with ungated earlier version here) report on a meta-analysis of 55 papers containing 2,468 estimates of the impact of industrial robots on wages, finding that the overall effect is close to zero and statistically insignificant
• Chekenya and Dzingirai find, using African data from 1997 to 2014, that migration significantly increases conflict incidence, with effects concentrated in countries and regions in Africa with weak governance and economic stress
• Cafferata, Dominguez, and Scartascini (with ungated earlier version here) find that overconfident individuals (in the US and Latin America) are more willing to accept the use of guns and more likely to declare their willingness to use guns
• Bucher-Koenen et al. (with ungated earlier version here) find that financial advisors in Germany offer more self-serving advice to women, while men are more likely to receive sales fee rebates and less likely to be recommended expensive in-house multi-asset funds

And the latest paper from my own research (or, more accurately, from the thesis research of my successful PhD student Jayani Wijesinghe, on which I am a co-author along with Susan Olivia and Les Oxley):

• Our new article (online early version, open access) in the journal Economics and Human Biology describes the patterns of lifespan inequality at the state level in the United States between 1959 and 2018, and identifies the state-level demographic and socioeconomic factors that are associated with lifespan inequality