This week I hosted the ANZRSAI (Australia New Zealand section of the Regional Science Association international) conference in Hamilton. Hosting a conference keeps you pretty busy, but I still managed to attend some sessions, and here are some of the highlights I found from the conference:
- Bruce Newbold kicked off the conference with an excellent keynote on the mobility of older people in Canada, and I was surprised how many older people move from other provinces to Alberta, and how few move to the Atlantic provinces
- Bill Cochrane presented on residential segregation by occupation (a proxy for socioeconomic status or class), showing that the population became more segregated between 2013 and 2018, but not between 2018 and 2023 (and Hamilton was an outlier on various aspects of the analysis, possibly because the satellite towns of Te Awamutu and Cambridge were not included)
- Michelle Thompson-Fawcett's keynote showed how urban design can incorporate Mātauranga Māori, and in my view this talk pointed to one way of considering Indigenous regional science and urban planning
- Robert Tanton showed how he created a synthetic population equivalent to the Australian Census, to explore access by older people to doctors (but the use cases for a synthetic census population are far wider than that)
- Iain White closed the conference with an excellent keynote on urban growth and climate change resilience, drawing on many of his previous research projects
Aside from the conference, here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Smith and Grimes (open access) explore the impact of income measurement issues on the estimated relationship between income and life satisfaction
- Prince and Wallsten (with ungated earlier version here) find that there is not a strong preference for data to be stored locally, except for data types where privacy is already of high value, such as financial and biometric data, and home address and phone number
- Berens, Henao, and Schneider (with ungated earlier version here) find that abolishing moderate tuition fees in Germany led students to reduce their academic effort, by postponing graduation and withdrawing from registered exams, and that the number of 'ghost students' increased
- Hua and Humphreys find that new players whose careers started at the time of the cancelled 2004-05 NHL season experienced shorter careers than those not exposed (including European players)
- Banerjee et al. (open access) conduct an experiment on a major international online freelancing platform, and find that, while both men and women prefer flexible work hours, the elasticity of response for women is twice that for men
- Guelmamen, Garcia, and Mayol (open access) find that while inter-municipal cooperation in water supply in France is associated with higher water prices, these increased tariffs are offset by better network performance, as indicated by lower water loss indices and improved water quality (seems important given the trajectory of change in New Zealand right now)
- Palacios-Huerta (with ungated earlier version here) reviews the beauty that is using sports as a setting for testing models and hypotheses
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